Tim Leighton, PhD

Tim Leighton, PhD is Action on Addiction’s director of professional education and research. He came to work for Clouds (residential treatment center) as a counselor in 1985, and in 1987 he went to Hazelden in Minnesota to look at their addiction counselor training programs in order to develop a course suitable for British counselors in the field. He has been leading professional education courses and degrees in the field of addiction for over 25 years. Leighton has been a UKCP registered Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapist since 1994 and is also an accredited trainer and supervisor.