Professor Ernesto Spinelli is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and in 2000 was awarded the BPS Division of Counselling Psychology Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of the Profession. He is also a UK registered existential psychotherapist as well as Fellow and Senior Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). In 1999, Ernesto was awarded a Personal Chair as Professor of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Counselling Psychology. Currently, Ernesto is the Director of ES Associates, an organization dedicated to the advancement of psychotherapy, coaching, facilitation and mediation through specialist seminars and training programmes. Author of numerous papers and texts, the Second Edition of Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World (Sage, 2007), which has been widely praised as a major contribution to the advancement of existential theory and practice, is being prepared for publication in 2014.