Dr Siobhain O'Riordan PhD CPsychol CSci FISCPAccred AFBPsS

Siobhain is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist, a Chartered Scientist, a Fellow of the International Society for Coaching Psychology (FISCPAccred), a Certified Principal Business Psychologist of the Association for Business Psychology, a Fellow of the International Stress Management AssociationUK, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a member of the Association for Coaching and an honorary member of the Institute of Health Promotion & Education. She is also an accredited coaching psychology supervisor.

With an academic background, Siobhain is an experienced trainer, examiner, and supervisor across training and postgraduate coaching and coaching psychology programmes. She is a course co-director/trainer on the coaching and coaching psychology programmes at the Centre for Coaching and Centre for Stress Management (UK). Siobhain is also the Director of Professional Development at the National Academy of Coaching Psychology and an Honorary Research Fellow of the Wales Academy for Professional Practice and Applied Research (WAPPAR) at University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

She is a past editor of the publications The Coaching Psychologist and the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education. She is currently an editor of the Coaching Psychology International and the International Journal of Coaching Psychology. Siobhain is a co-editor of the European Journal of Applied Positive Psychology and the International Journal of Stress Prevention and Wellbeing.

In 2010 she received the Distinguished Contribution to Coaching Psychology Award (British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology). In 2021, Siobhain was awarded a lifetime achievement award for contributions to coaching psychology by Coaching at Work.

Siobhain is Co-Editor of the book an Introduction to Coaching Psychology (alongside Prof Stephen Palmer), published by Routledge in 2021. She has also written articles and chapters relating to coaching psychology, coaching and positive psychology over the years and talks at national and international events.

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