Anja Rutten is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Counselling at Staffordshire University. She is also a qualified person-centred counsellor and psychotherapist. Her main areas of research interest are how people with Autistic Spectrum Conditions experience counselling and how Pre-Therapy can help those people with autistic process who do not find it easy to be in contact with others. Anja's email is a.h.rutten@staffs.ac.uk