Who is Andy Parnham?
Andy is an independent wellbeing adviser and coach, running amongst other things, The Happiness Course, in a variety of settings, including schools, health centres, companies and the voluntary sector.
He was brought up in the West Country and moved to London to study medicine. After some years working as a doctor he moved into inner city community work in south London and overseas.
This gave him an enormous amount of experience in the down-to-earth issues we all face.
During this time he developed and ran accessible courses for the community and trained as a Life Coach.
One of the courses quickly took off – this was “The Happiness Course”, which has now spread throughout the country and beyond.
Andy spent a number of years working with Livability, a charity that serves people with disabilities; but now all his time is given to working independently in many contexts.
Who is Jill Parnham?
Jill has ten years experience as a counsellor in the NHS and twenty years experience in private practice. An exciting third strand to her work has been training counsellors at foundation and diploma level.
Her home city is Liverpool. After studying the social sciences at York University, she moved to London to work in voluntary sector community development.
They teamed up over the next years, partnering together in community work in London and abroad. She is fascinated by the power of relationships and the process of change, whether in a community or individual setting.
Having worked with individuals and groups in a pastoral context for twenty years she embarked on a professional counselling training in 2003 at Greenwich University, completing the Masters programme in 2007.
She is an accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She follows their Ethical Framework.
