Rona Moss-Morris is Professor of Psychology as Applied to Medicine and head of the Health Psychology Section at King’s College London. For the past 20 years her research has focused on understanding the unique challenges long-term conditions pose. She has worked alongside people with long-term conditions to better understand how people adjust to long-term illness. This knowledge has been used to develop interventions which aim to support people to maximise their quality of life despite their illness.

Rona came up with the idea of Compass as a way of making these intervention methods available to as many people possible. She has been lucky enough to work with a fabulous team of researchers, healthcare professionals, software developers and people with long-term conditions to bring this project to fruition.

Katharine Rimes is a Senior Lecturer at King’s College London. She is also an Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Lead for long-term conditions and medically unexplained symptoms at Talking Therapies Southwark, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust.

She conducts research into psychological processes and applies these findings to improve and develop psychological interventions. She is also an NHS clinical and health psychologist registered with the Health Care Professions Council. She has therapy expertise in cognitive behaviour therapy, mindfulness based cognitive therapy and compassion-focused approaches. She is accredited by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.

Katrin Hulme is a Research Associate at King’s College London and a Health Psychologist registered with the Health Care Professions Council. She has worked in both clinical and academic research departments, developing and delivering interventions to help people manage persistent physical symptoms and long-term conditions. She became interested in the area during her Professional Doctorate whilst working in hospital services. She recognised a need to address health from both physical and psychological perspectives, ideally at the same time. Katrin joined the Compass team to work towards this.

Joanna Hudson works at King’s College London as a Research Associate. Her work focuses on developing and testing self-management resources to support people with long-term conditions. Joanna became interested in this area when she worked in an Improving Access to Psychological Therapy service. She felt that the treatment options and resources offered to individuals with long-term conditions did not meet their needs, so she began researching this area to try and change this.

Abigail Wroe is a Clinical Health Psychologist in Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, working in the specialist Clinical Heath Psychology Service and the Berkshire IAPT Service, supporting the service with their work with people with long-term health conditions. She is registered with the Health Care Professions Council and accredited by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies. She has expertise in psychological therapy for people living with long-term health conditions (including fibromyalgia, gastroenterological conditions and diabetes), for example cognitive behaviour therapy, acceptance commitment therapy and compassion-focused therapy approaches. Abi joins the Compass team at King’s College London as a Research Clinical Health Psychologist, offering teaching and supervision to clinicians facilitating the Compass program.