Biographies

Dr Syd Hiskey has an academic background in trauma psychology and more recently compassion based therapeutic approaches. He has worked in the NHS as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, with adult and older adult clients in secondary and tertiary mental health settings in North Essex. He is currently in full-time private practice. He has practised a wide range of martial arts for the last two decades, most recently focusing on Wing Chun Kung Fu (in which he has a black sash) and Mixed Self Defence/Martial Arts (Hybrid Defence).

Dr Neil Clapton is a Clinical Psychologist working in the NHS with adults with complex mental health issues in secondary mental health services in Swindon, specialising in the provision of Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). He also has experience of having worked for some years in tertiary mental health settings earlier in his career. Neil spent much of his early-middle childhood and early adolescence practicing the martial art of Taekwondo, culminating in him becoming a 1st-degree Black Belt at the age of 13.