Rod Holland

Rod Holland is a clinical psychologist with more than 40 years of experience in senior clinical, service leadership, and management roles, primarily within the National Health Service in London. Before retiring from the NHS in 2017, he served as Director of Mental Health for a large North West London service, Director of Psychological Services in West London, and Clinical Adviser to the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme for London.

Rod has made a longstanding contribution to the development of cognitive and behavioural therapies in the United Kingdom, Europe, and internationally. He served as President of the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies from 2010 to 2016 and has contributed to the development of CBT training standards and accreditation across the UK and Europe. He has organised several major international congresses, including the World Congresses in Edinburgh in 1988, Barcelona in 2007, and Berlin in 2019. Most recently, he co-chaired the 2025 EABCT Congress in Glasgow. He continues to organise the national conference and workshop programme for the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.

Rod also played an important role in the formation of WCCBT. He was a member of the original working group that developed the proposal for a global CBT organisation and later served on the subcommittee that created the plans, governance documents, and strategic framework leading to WCCBT’s establishment in 2019. He currently serves as the Honorary Secretary on the WCCBT Board.

His contributions to the field have been recognised through an Honorary Fellowship of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies’ Distinguished Friend to Behavior Therapy Award in 2019.