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Craft with Care
A Mental Health Symposium for Journalists



James Scurry

James Scurry is a Senior Producer and an Assistant Editor at Sky News. He was previously a Deputy Foreign News Editor at Sky News and has also worked for Al Jazeera English and ITV News London. He began his career in television in 2001 at Channel 9 Australia.

James is also a UKCP-accredited psychotherapist and co-founder and director of the mental health non-profit Safely Held Spaces, which provides editorial mental health training programmes to newsrooms. 

He holds a Master’s Degree in Mindfulness-based Core Process Psychotherapy and his clinical work explores how Eastern approaches to mental health can be applied in Western settings.  He has worked both in the UK and internationally with veterans and soldiers experiencing post-traumatic stress and complex trauma and he’s currently completing a teacher training qualification in Tibetan movement practices for trauma in Berkeley in California.