Ellis Hartwell

I write for people who are functioning and struggling at the same time. The nurse who is still safe with her patients and still cries in the car. The teacher who still plans well and dreads Sunday. The man who has handled pressure for thirty years and now cannot get back to sleep at three in the morning.

Every book I publish is built on cognitive behavioural therapy, because CBT has the strongest evidence base and, more usefully, because it gives a reader something to do rather than something to feel. I avoid the two things that make self-help useless: empty reassurance and invented research. What is in these books is either well established or clearly marked as one person's experience.

The guides explain the mechanism. The workbooks put it into practice, in fill-in form, at a pace that survives a twelve-hour shift or a full teaching timetable. Most of them are designed to be used as a pair.