Nicolaas F. Fouche, Licensed Professional Counsellor. Fouche is a graduate of Urbino University (Marches, Italy) and holds a Masters degree in Counselling (Performat, Pisa). A first language English speaker and registered in the UK with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, he is also fluent in Italian and is a member of the National Counselling Authority in Italy. Both an Irish and an Italian national, Fouche is a married father of two. Though his professional commitments regularly take him to London, his studio is domiciled in Rimini. In Italy he collaborates as English counsellor alongside Italian psychologists, psychotherapists and mental health specialists at the Performat Counselling Centre, Navacchio (Pisa), often working with clients from the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand who are mostly resident in either Rome, Milan or Naples. Initially acting upon the request of clients from far afield for whom the demands of time and distance made accessibility to his studio difficult, he has offered Skype counselling since early 2006. A member of the European Association for Transactional Analysis and of the Institute of Transactional Analysis, Fouche is also a contributor to Counseling Italia.