Nick Harrop works as Communications Director at the National Academy for Social Prescribing and as an integrative counsellor (practising privately and at Wandsworth Carers Centre). He has previously worked as Head of External Affairs at YoungMinds, at CAFOD and at Greene & Heaton Literary Agency, and also as a scriptwriter and lecturer. He has a particular interest in how arts and creativity can support health and wellbeing and has studied Creative Writing at The University of East Anglia and counselling and psychotherapy at WPF and The University of East London. He lives near Tara Theatre in Earlsfield.