Bill Huxley is a successful professional Counsellor and Psychotherapist, working in private practice from his home, a converted 1868 Wesley Chapel in Wiltshire. Bill works with a wide range of emotional distress issues.

He specialises in trauma recovery; having worked with domestic violence and many survivors of childhood sexual abuse, victims of kidnap, rape and war-zone PTSD. As a survivor himself of childhood abuse, the mental health system, and the failure of psychiatric diagnosis & medication, Bill is very well qualified to work with the challenges of most mental health issues.

Amongst his achievements, Bill has developed and implemented counselling and trauma programmes in Eastern Europe; teaching, feeding and developing communities, existing in shanty slum towns where abuse is ripe.  With his wife Valerie, he is the co-founder of the charity People against Poverty and founder of Business against Poverty.

Before his counselling career, he worked at an executive level in Industry for over 30 years. Serving in Hong Kong, South Africa, Romania, Tanzania and had business interests at home and in the USA. Bill has given many public talks and been interviewed on radio stations, including the BBC.  He has become an advocate for the movement ‘Drop the Disorder’, a movement challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis and exploring non-pathologising alternatives. Bill is passionate about setting people free from emotional distress, poverty and injustice.

If you would like Bill to speak on his subjects of interest, then he will be happy to receive your email.