Speakers

Voices Across the
Professions

Meet the speakers and contributors bringing theology, psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy and coaching into conversation at CPPC. Biographies and further recordings will be added as the conference approaches.

Fr Wojciech Giertych OP speaking to an audience
Theologian of the Papal Household and Professor of Moral Theology

Fr Wojciech Giertych OP

Fr Wojciech Giertych OP is a Dominican friar, theologian and teacher whose work explores moral theology, virtue and the formation of the human person.

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Faith and the Emotions – A Theological and Psychological Inquiry Into the Human Heart

Fr Wojciech Giertych shows how the advice of saints like Thomas Aquinas can help us overcome our emotions to grow in virtue, develop mature identities, and escape painful anxiety.

Professor Peter Tyler smiling outdoors
Professor of Pastoral Theology and Spirituality, St Mary's University, Twickenham

Professor Peter Tyler

Professor Peter Tyler is a scholar and psychotherapist whose work brings the Christian mystical tradition into conversation with psychology, spirituality and therapeutic practice.

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Mysticism, Soul, and Psyche

Drawing from his work in spirituality and psychotherapy, Professor Tyler shares how contemplative traditions, depth psychology, and the Christian mystical tradition can help us better understand the human experience and rediscover a more integrated vision of wholeness, healing, and spiritual depth.

Dr Andrew Parker outdoors
Consultant Psychiatrist

Dr Andrew Parker

Dr Andrew Parker is a consultant psychiatrist who writes and speaks about mental health, meaning, personal agency and the relationship between professional life and Catholic faith.

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Pursuit of the True and Beautiful

Psychiatrist Andrew Parker's pursuit of the true and beautiful led him to consider the possibility of God, but his personal life hindered belief. After a long philosophical journey, he decided the cost of conversion was worth any personal sacrifice and gave him life beyond what he once imagined possible.

A Desire for Wholeness and a Search for Meaning

Dr Andrew Parker discusses mental health with Fr Toby Lees, emphasising the importance of personal growth and agency whatever one's circumstances.

Elisa Alberto
Executive Coach, Community Leader and Charity Trustee

Elisa Alberto

Elisa Alberto is a leadership coach and change-management consultant with more than 18 years’ experience supporting leaders across business, Church and nonprofit settings. Her work centres on purpose, service and sustainable professional life, helping leaders integrate faith and professional practice and bring the worlds of business and the Church into closer conversation.

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Love-centred Leadership

Speaking at EuroLeaders ’25, Elisa Alberto explores leadership rooted in love: how leaders can help others flourish, build life-giving relationships and bring faith into the way they serve at work and in their communities.

Leonor de Escoriaza seated and smiling
Psychologist and Co-founder of ICATC

Leonor de Escoriaza

Leonor de Escoriaza is a psychologist and co-founder of the International Catholic Association of Therapy and Coaching. She will lead the afternoon conversation on writing as a Catholic and as a professional.

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Las ideologías dominantes hoy promueven una vida sin sentido y problemas de identidad

(In Spanish) Psychologist Leonor de Escoriaza shares the story behind ICATC and explains how a providential encounter led to an international community of Catholic professionals seeking to integrate psychological science with Christian anthropology, offering therapy and accompaniment rooted in a Catholic understanding of the person.

Elizabeth Anscombe
Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

Elizabeth Anscombe

Elizabeth Anscombe is a child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist. At CPPC she will present with Marta Drzewiczewska on spiritual conversations while working alongside anorexic patients.

More to come

Selected videos, podcasts and reading will be added here.

Marta Drzewiczewska
Counselling Psychologist

Marta Drzewiczewska

Marta Drzewiczewska is an HCPC-registered counselling psychologist. At CPPC she will present with Elizabeth Anscombe on spiritual conversations while working alongside anorexic patients.

More to come

Selected videos, podcasts and reading will be added here.

Samuel Chan smiling outdoors
Graduate Member of the Psychological Society of Ireland

Samuel Chan

Samuel Chan will present some of the conference’s sessions. He is a Graduate Member of the Psychological Society of Ireland. He holds an MSc in the Psychology of Mental Health from the University of Edinburgh and recently graduated with an MSc in Work and Organisational Psychology from Dublin City University, where he was named to the Dean’s List for academic excellence.

More to come

Selected videos, podcasts and reading will be added here.