Rob is a Psychodynamic Counsellor registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council. Rob trained at Birkbeck College, University of London and spent five years as an Honorary Psychotherapist at CNWL NHS Foundation Trust. He has worked in general mental health since 2008 and has run a successful private practice in Walthamstow, East London since 2015. As well as an MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy, Rob also has a degree in Philosophy and Politics and a graduate diploma in Psychology. He is a Director at OPUS - An Organisation for Promoting Understanding in Society – where he is responsible for the Listening Post, an international project designed to study unconscious aspects of global society. Rob is a determined advocate of climate activism and has personally organised or been involved in a number of environmental protests under the auspices of Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil. As a consequence of his peaceful resistance against the UK Government, Rob now has criminal record. Rob is a passionate speaker and writer on the subject of unconscious aspects of the climate crisis. He has spoken at OPUS conferences, Birkbeck Counselling Association study days and the Political Mind seminars at the Institute of Psychoanalysis. He has had articles published by New Associations, the Climate Psychology Alliance, Open Democracy and Organisational and Social Dynamics.