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Article History

Received: 3 April 2018

Accepted: 2 August 2018

First Online: 12 November 2018

Author’s information

: Mark Snelling is a counsellor, psychotherapist and psychosocial consultant working in private practice in London. He specialises in supporting humanitarian aid workers but also works with a wide range of professional groups who operate in trauma-exposed settings. Prior to setting up his practice, he was a senior clinician with InterHealth Worldwide, an international health charity providing medical and psychological support to aid agencies, mission organisations and government departments. He has also worked in the NHS. Before training as a therapist, he was an international delegate of the British Red Cross Society, completing a number of short- and long-term assignments in areas of armed conflict and natural disaster in Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.

: The author declares that he has no competing interests.

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