About Us
David Eggins. Founder & Chairman
David Eggins. Founder & Chairman
David Eggins. Founder & Chairman
David taught modern languages and was housemaster at a special needs school before founding Temper Domestic Violence. He trained in co-counselling and couples counselling and set the charity up in 1994 after attending a domestic violence conference where a speaker asserted that violent men are all the same and cannot change.
Denise Knowles. Facilitator
David Eggins. Founder & Chairman
David Eggins. Founder & Chairman
Denise has delivered the Temper programme with David for 25 years. She is a couples counsellor, psycho-sexual therapist, family therapist and supervisor working in private practice. She works with abusers and victims of domestic violence and victims of sexual abuse, and has worked across a variety of media promoting healthy and respectf
Denise has delivered the Temper programme with David for 25 years. She is a couples counsellor, psycho-sexual therapist, family therapist and supervisor working in private practice. She works with abusers and victims of domestic violence and victims of sexual abuse, and has worked across a variety of media promoting healthy and respectful relationships. Denise is an accredited member of the BACP and a registered supervisor of the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists.
Sue Parker Hall. Supervisor
Sue Parker Hall. Supervisor
Sue Parker Hall. Supervisor
Sue has more than 25 years of practice working with diverse client groups across a wide range of issues. She is passionately committed to practising, researching and teaching philosophy and methods that recognise a real human relationship as the crucible and the vehicle for positive change. She is author of Anger, Rage and Relationship:
Sue has more than 25 years of practice working with diverse client groups across a wide range of issues. She is passionately committed to practising, researching and teaching philosophy and methods that recognise a real human relationship as the crucible and the vehicle for positive change. She is author of Anger, Rage and Relationship: An Empathic Approach to Anger Management (2008, Routledge) and teaches counsellors and psychotherapists internationally about working with these issues in particular. Sue is a Certified Transactional Analyst and has an MSc in Counselling Training and Supervision. She is UKCP registered, with a senior accredited membership of the BACP.
Zac Fine. Facilitator
Sue Parker Hall. Supervisor
Sue Parker Hall. Supervisor
Zac is a counsellor in private practice specialising in men's issues. He created an online therapeutic course for separated fathers in 2020 and presents webinars and podcasts about family separation and masculinity. Zac has experience working with victims of domestic abuse and sexual abuse, and with parents who have lost child contact a
Zac is a counsellor in private practice specialising in men's issues. He created an online therapeutic course for separated fathers in 2020 and presents webinars and podcasts about family separation and masculinity. Zac has experience working with victims of domestic abuse and sexual abuse, and with parents who have lost child contact against their wishes. He qualified in 2018 after a career in journalism and PR. He is a member of the BACP.