Dr Aaron Balick

Dr Aaron Balick is a leading Psychotherapist who has held positions with the BBC, UKCP and the University of Essex. He is also the Director of Stillpoint, an international research hub focused on exploring psychology. Aaron has worked to make psychology accessible and is the author of several self-help books. As a speaker Aaron aims to provide useful information that can have a positive impact on the audiences’ lives. His main focus is on how psychology can be used to better understand and tackle any challenges people face.

Aaron has degrees from the University of Colorado, the University of East Anglia and the University of London as well as a master’s degree from the University of London. In 2008 he was awarded a PhD from the University of Essex and later he completed the University of Oxford’s Executive Leadership Programme. From 2002 he was CBBC’s Agony Uncle producing a weekly column responding to Children’s concerns as well as appearing on Newsround and presenting ‘Ask Aaron. He has also spent 20 years as BBC Radio 1’s Resident Psychotherapist on “The Surgery With Aled and Dr Radha”. Other radio appearances include time on BBC Radio 4’s Digital Human and The Moral Maze. He is a regular in the written press as well and has contributed to The Guardian, The Independent, Wired Magazine and The Huffington Post. Aaron has also spent over 15 years as the Media Spokesperson for UKCP and was a Consultant Editor for four years.

An internationally renowned scholar, Aaron published The Psychodynamics of Social Networking in 2013. Since then, he has published The Little Book of Calm and Keep your cool, two self-help books that make psychological theories accessible to everyone, even if they have never studied the subject. He also contributed to The Book of Hope. He works to support and develop the next generation of psychologists as Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex after previously holding the role of course director for the MA in Psychoanalytic Studies. He is also the Director of Stillpoint, an international organisation that brings together experts in a number of different psychology disciplines to apply theories to contemporary life.

Available to hire as a speaker, Dr Aaron Balick approaches all his talks with the aim of having a positive impact on everyone in attendance. His informative and engaging discussions cover a variety of topics that everyone can relate to, such as social media, wellbeing in the workplace and work/life balance. Overall, Aaron leaves his audience with useable information from the world of psychology and provides them with strategies to improve areas of their lives.