Chris Williams MBChB, BSc, MMedSc, MD, FRCPsych

Dr Chris Williams is Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. His main clinical and research interest is in the evaluation of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approaches that provide wider access to care. This includes the free-access life skills course. He has an interest in written and computer-based self-help treatments for anxiety, depression, anorexia and bulimia and is a Past-President and Honorary Fellow of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies - the lead body for CBT. He is a Director of Glasgow Institute of Psychosocial Interventions (GIPSI) - which has a focus on training and research in evidence-based psychosocial interventions.
He is Patron of Anxiety UK and of Triumph over Phobia. His research has focused on the evaluation of CBT and CBT self-help interventions in low mood, bulimia, anorexia, medically unexplained symptoms and community-based classes for low mood and stress. His work has included developing online and also class based life skills programmes- which have been translated into Somali, Chinese and Romanian, as well as books in six other languages.