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Director of Operations – Jude Cohen-Phillips
Director of Services – Joanna Goodfellow
Director of Training – Lissie Wright
Registrar - Meg
Registrar - Julia Culver
Administrative Officer (Training) - Betti Urmos
Receptionist - Kata Visy
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Adella Shapiro UKCP Reg, MA Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Dip Integrative Psychotherapy Supervision
Diploma Tutor
1st Year Family and Belonging
2nd Year Childhood Sex Abuse
3rd Year Contemporary Therapies
Adella is a trainer, supervisor and psychotherapist with an extensive experience in the voluntary, private and statutory sectors. A Minster Centre graduate, she has worked in the past 30 Years with individuals and groups in different settings.
Adella has supervised psychotherapy students, NHS managers and group facilitators, psychotherapists and counsellors working within the NHS and voluntary institutions with diverse client group
2nd Year Experiential Training Group leader
Brigitta completed the MSc in Counselling & Psychotherapy in Health and Social Care at Roehampton University. She also trained in Integrative Psychotherapy at the Minster Centre. Brigitta is a qualified Teacher of the Alexander Technique. She has been in private practice since 1999, and worked for a psychodynamic counselling service for the homeless in East London for many years.
Brigitta has a Diploma in using the Arts in Therapy and Education from IATE, and recently completed the Introductory course of group analysis at the IGA.
Brigitta is a visiting lecturer on the psychodynamic counselling diploma course and the MA/PgD in contemporary therapeutic counselling at Hertfordshire University where she teaches psychodynamic skills, theory, runs an Personal Development Group and is a supervisor.
Foundation Year
Carol has taught at all levels from counselling skills for beginners to teaching on Doctorates in Counselling Psychology, for many years she ran all the intensive foundation courses at Regents College.
Carol’s particular subjects are ethics and cross cultural counselling. She has worked in Africa and South East Asia and has counselled refugees in this country. She has supervised charities working with people who have recently been in psychiatric hospital, with organisations that have dealt with domestic violence as well working with private firms giving advice on group work and coaching.
Carol has a private practice for clients and supervisees. She has an advanced diploma in Existential Analysis, one in Gestalt Counselling, has recently completed a course in CBT and one in Mindfulness.
Christiane Sanderson BSc.; MSc
2nd Year Domestic Violence
Christiane is a lecturer in Psychology at London University, Birkbeck College, and Consultant in the School of Human and Life Sciences, Roehampton University. With over 20 years experience working in the child sexual abuse, sexual and domestic violence fields she has run workshops for parents, teachers, social workers, nurses, therapists and counsellors to increase knowledge and awareness of CSA. She has also provided consultancy to the Metropolitan Police Service, Specialist Crime Directorate Child Abuse Investigation Command and the NSPCC.
Christiane is the author of Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse 3rd Edition; The Seduction of Children; Counselling Survivors of Domestic Abuse; and Introduction to Counselling Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma, all published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
DPsych. Dip. Gestalt Therapy, UKCP reg
020 8361 6146 clairebartram@blueyonder.co.uk
Claire Asherson Bartram is a psychotherapist, supervisor and group leader working in private practice in Highgate. While her original psychotherapy training was in Gestalt she is a firm supporter of an integrated approach and teaches skills and Humanistic theory for the 1st year of the counselling diploma.
Claire’s research interests are in human relationships and research methods that challenge the traditional hierarchy of researcher and subject. Her doctoral project ‘Narratives of Mothers in Stepfamily Situations’ combined a creative approach with the demands of academic rigour. For this project she included personal material alongside that of other participants in an eclectic methodology that drew from narrative, phenomenological and heuristic methodologies. In the process of this she gained knowledge and experience of many qualitative methods, including grounded theory, action research and cooperative enquiry.
Claire sees conducting a research project as both a means of gaining knowledge and a developmental heuristic journey for the researcher. As a supervisor she attends to the interplay between the person of the researcher, the research area and the data arising from the investigation. She will help supervisees to identify a pertinent and manageable research area and their personal connection with it, to be aware of their biases and strengths within the work and to write up in a clear and accessible manner.
Danka Scott CQSW, MA Integ Counselling & Dip Psych, UKCP Reg, MBACP
Fast Track Foundation
Foundation Year
Danka is a graduate of the Minster Centre. She came to psychotherapy from a background of social work and rehabilitation. She worked for many years in the field of mental health both in Poland and the UK.
For a number of years she managed the Counselling Service at Hammersmith & Fulham Mind.
Danka continues to supervise counsellors at Mind and in other organisations. She has a private practice in West London and works for the NHS in GP practices in Brixton. She has a particular interest in bodywork and integrating it into other psychotherapeutic approaches.
3rd Year Supervision
David trained in Integrative psychotherapy at the Minster Centre. He has also trained in Co-counselling, re-evaluation counselling, contemporary shamanism and hypnosis. He has been doing individual, couple and group work for 13 Years in North London where he runs a centre for complementary therapy.
David co-ran a music and dance camp for 9 Years incorporating developmental and large group processes for between 400 and 500 people. He is an active improvising musician on the London experimental circuit.
1st Year Experiential Training Group Leader
Gilla trained in Integrative Psychotherapy at the Minster Centre after which she furthered her studies at the Tavistock Centre in Groupwork and Consultation to Organisations. She has worked as a psychotherapist, supervisor and organisational consultant in mental health settings in the statutory, voluntary and private sectors for many years.
Gilla is the lead psychodynamic psychotherapist for a secondary care NHS service in East London. In addition to her own caseload of individuals and groups, she provides supervision, consultation and training to psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists within the service.
Gilla has a particular interest in the dynamics of groups and organisations and is also a psychotherapist, supervisor and organisational consultant in private practice.
3rd Year Death and Bereavement
1st Year
Finalists
Julia worked as a social worker for 16 years before qualifying as a psychotherapist from the Minster Centre. Julia is employed in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Richmond (CAMHS), and specialises in working with adolescents and their families, where the young person is either self-harming or suffering from an eating disorder.
She also offers individual psychotherapy, family work and group work within CAMHS. Julia provides consultation and training to a range of professionals around eating disorders and self-harm. Julia has a private practice in Kew, Surrey.
All Years Head of Supervision
2nd Year Supervision
3rd Year Supervision
Julia has trained in primal integration, humanistic and psychodynamic psychotherapy. She is a graduate of the Minster Centre and works with groups as a supervisor and also individually in private practice. She is currently working part-time in the National Health Service.
1st Year Skills
Karin worked as a speech and language therapist before training as a counsellor at Roehampton University. She worked in primary care with individuals and couples for 16 Years and currently facilitates an on-going therapeutic group for women with post-natal depression. She supervises counsellors and mental health workers in primary care and for an organisation working with refugees and asylum seekers.
Karin has taught counselling skills courses for many Years, tailor-made for different organisations. Professionally she is interested in a holistic approach to psychotherapy and the impact of difference. She has also trained in the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and hypnotherapy.
Finalists
Introduction to Counselling Skills - Head of Course
3rd Year - Supervision
With a background in education, Kevin originally worked and trained as a community therapist with the Philadelphia Association under R.D. Laing, and then went on to train with the Institute of Psychotherapy and Social Studies. His primary orientation is psychodynamic and existential, and he also uses CBT in his short- term work.
He has been working as a therapist for over 20 years in both the public and voluntary sectors and since 1994 has been involved in various counselling and psychotherapy trainings. At present he works in a GP surgery and as a supervisor and therapist in private practice.
Director of Training
Foundation Year
1st Year Joint Year Head
Finalists
Introduction to Groupwork tutor
Margot Schiemann has been in private practice since 1986. She offers short and long-term psychotherapy and counselling, group work, supervision and team support. She is an individual psychotherapist, Group Analyst and BAPPS accredited supervisor.
Margot works in German as well as English, with individuals, couples, groups, and staff teams. Margot teaches and supervises psychotherapists, counsellors and many other professionals in a variety of settings, including the NHS, Social Services and the private sector.
She has worked with a diverse range of ages and cultural and religious backgrounds. A particular interest is in work with people who want to develop their creative potential in personal, family and work relationships.
Finalists
2nd Year
Michael is an integrative psychotherapist with 30 years experience. He earned his MA from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado in 1984 and has trained in many different models of therapy since then, such as psychodynamic, CBT, DBT, contemplative, brief solution-focused, narrative, systemic family therapy, and motivational interviewing.
Michael has worked in both the private and voluntary sectors in various settings, such as psychiatric hospitals, day programs, residential treatment centres, emergency services, home-based, and out-patient therapy agencies. He has also provided clinical supervision for many years. Before moving to London from the US he was Executive Director for Windhorse Associates, a non-profit mental health organization in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Michael is currently in private practice with offices in West Hampstead and Central London. www.dewanherrick.com
1st Year Joint Year Head
Nancy is an integrative/psychodynamic psychotherapist in private practise in Oxford since 1997. As well as her open-ended work in private practise, she specialises in short-term, dynamic counselling and works under contract for the NHS and University of Oxford Occupational Health Departments. She also works with couples and has completed a training in Developing Supervision with the British Association of Psychotherapist (BAP) in London.
Nancy is Chair and Administrator for the Oxford Counselling & Psychotherapy Service and is very involved with their in-house education and Professional development programme.
First Year
Paul originally trained as a dramatherapist, working in forensic psychiatry, before moving into community mental health, working with significant and enduring mental health clients, providing both individual and group psychotherapy as well as psycho-educational and CBT groups. He is also a CBT therapist after training, delivering and providing CBT for the NHS for many years.
Paul has been a clinical supervisor for the last ten years, and more recently an academic supervisor for students with their MA dissertations. He is also a visiting lecturer for the last few years at a number of psychotherapy trainings across London. Paul is also accredited as an advanced specialist in sexual minority therapy.
He has worked for the last three years as senior manager and clinical development director for a leading child charity in London, providing clinical and managerial interventions and direction for staff, clinicians and trainees working with abused, traumatised and vulnerable children and adolescents.
Paul also has a private practice where he sees clients with a wide variety of presenting problems and supervises clinicians, probation workers, social workers and trainees. He also works for organisations providing ongoing trainings for staff, clinicians and trainees.
1st Year
3rd Year
Finalists
Philip has over 20 Years experience in both the statutory and voluntary sectors of mental health. He is a graduate of the Minster Centre. Philip is currently in private practice in North London and works as a supervisor for a North London counselling service. He also manages a counselling service in South East London.
2nd Year
3rd Year
Philip is a Psychotherapist and Counsellor, a graduate of the Minster Centre he has gone on to do further training in Group Therapy at the Institute of Group Analysis, and in Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.
Philip has worked for Social Services, the NHS and in private practice for over 10 Years. He has extensive experience in primary, secondary and tertiary care as both an Individual and Group Therapist. He has managed a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Centre and worked for many Years in a Therapeutic Community. He specialises in the treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, assessment, and working with patients suffering from severe and enduring mental health problems.
1st Year
2nd Year
3rd Year
Pushan works with individuals, couples and groups and also runs a counselling service in primary care. He has a background in the food industry and mental health and is also a supervisor.
Some of his many interests include dreams, working with the body and physical symptoms, early life issues and severe disturbances, and social factors in psychotherapy. He is also engaged in Eastern philosophy and martial arts.
Pushan regularly publishes articles on various topics in self-development. He has been practising for 15 Years.
His websites are at: www.psychotherapy-in-london.net Integrative Supervision .
2nd Year
Rebecca Cooper has worked for over 25 Years in the field of counselling and psychotherapy. She worked for many Years in a young people’s counselling centre involving individual, group, couple and family work, before training in a body-oriented psychotherapy.
In recent Years Rebecca has trained in Energy Healing which has introduced another dimension to her work. As a result of her influences Rebecca is very committed to integrating bodywork with other psychotherapeutic approaches – both in her private practice and in her training. She has run therapy and training groups in different contexts, and has run the counselling training for the Centre for Integrated Complementary Medicines.
Rebecca also has a special interest in adoption issues and for some Years chaired the approval panel for a fostering organisation.
Foundation Year
2nd Year
Finalists
Rory is a graduate of the Minster Centre. His career prior to training as a therapist included working in the commercial and voluntary sectors at a management level for over 25 years. Since qualification, he has had experience of working for six years in Statutory Mental Health Day Services for a large London Borough.
During this time Rory was a facilitator of a range of therapeutic Groups – CBT based to psychodynamic. He also offered long term and short term counselling to clients who had issues from the mildly debilitating to the severe. He eventually took on the role of Joint Counselling Coordinator for the service and took on responsibility of providing supervision to honorary and qualified psychotherapists working for the service.
As for now, as well as tutoring at the Minster Centre, Rory has a private practice in North London seeing long term 1-2-1 clients, offering supervision, and room rental to practitioners. He has a broad interest in working with a range of clients from the ‘worried well’ to more troubled clients who can often be marginalized in their access to ‘talking’ therapies.
3rd Year
Roz is a psychotherapist, supervisor, author and speaker. She has a special interest in contemporary approaches to psychotherapy and updating our view of how to address the body in psychotherapy intersubjectively. She draws on attachment theory, trauma theory, neuroscience, body psychotherapy and relational psychoanalysis.
Roz has published numerous articles and chapters on the interplay between these perspectives (see www.thinkbody.co.uk). Roz also teaches at The Bowlby Centre, Terapia and the Chiron Centre. Her recent publications include chapters in Revolutionary Connections, Body Psychotherapy and How does Psychotherapy Work?
3rd Year
2nd Year
Ruthie Smith is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist who works in private practice and in the NHS as Principal Individual Adult Psychotherapist, supervising the individual psychotherapy of a department and teaching the psychotherapy component of psychiatrists in training. Prior to this she worked at the Women’s Therapy Centre for more than 20 Years as a psychotherapist and supervisor.
Ruthie has taught psychotherapy extensively on a number of psychotherapy training programmes and university courses, and worked as a consultant, offering clinical and managerial supervision to agencies within both the public and voluntary sectors. She has a special interest in music (she is a jazz and classical musician), has been teaching on meditation and spirituality courses for a number of Years, and is currently engaged in developing her work in the field of energy psychotherapy and trauma.
3rd Year
Shoshi is training director and supervisor at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy and a visiting tutor in other psychotherapeutic organisations in the UK and Israel. She has a particular interest in developing a therapeutic practice, which takes into account relational psychoanalytic thinking and contemporary understanding of the relationship between body and mind.
Recently published and presented papers are on subjects such as the erotic and sexuality in the therapy room, a relational body psychotherapy perspective on the controversial question of touch and embodied engagement as a navigating guide in the void of dissociation.
She is a founding member of the Relational School and a member of its’ steering committee. She has a private practice in London where she works with individuals and couples.
Foundation Year
2nd Year
Finalists
Susan Daniels trained as a psychotherapist at the Institute of Psychotherapy and Social Studies, which incorporated both humanistic and psychoanalytic work. She has a background in education, teaching refugees and adults returning to education after many Years.
Sue now works as a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. She is a supervisor of counsellors from MIND and also of counsellors working with adolescents in school settings. She has worked with adults with learning difficulties, and as a group therapist. She has been involved in training for several Years, both in humanistic and psychodynamic courses which emphasized the importance of social/political factors in psychotherapy, and is currently course tutor on a counselling diploma in Further Education.
Supervision
Diploma Tutor
Sue has been working in the public and voluntary sector as a psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer for 19 Years. She has worked as a supervisor in the NHS, for students on placement in a variety of HE and therapy organisations, and for counsellors working in the voluntary sector.
Sue is currently the Head of an HE Student Counselling Service. Her specialisms include supervision for eating disorders, working with young people and time- limited therapy.
1st Year
Vivian qualified as a doctor in South Africa and worked in South Africa and New Zealand in both the public and private sectors. He has a longstanding interest in psychotherapy and working and living in a multicultural society. In New Zealand he worked for a number of Years in psychiatry and continued to evolve and develop his therapeutic skills here in the UK where he has been for eleven Years.
Vivian is a group analyst and member of the Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) in London. He works full time in the NHS in the alcohol assessment and treatment in-patient unit and the community alcohol team in South West London. He also has a private practice.
1st Year
3rd Year
Finalists
Werner is a psychotherapist, researcher and tutor. He works in private practice in Golders Green and at the Capio Nightingale Hospital. He is a lecturer in integral therapy at Anglia Ruskin University and tutor at the Open University. Werner has worked in many organisational settings with a range of different client groups, including survivors of torture.
He works in an integrative way and is being influenced by existential concepts, mindfulness approaches and latest developments in the CBT field, such as Schema Therapy. He has worked with survivors of torture for several Years, and he has taught at several BA, BSc, MA and doctoral level therapy courses. Werner is also Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Psychotherapy, an e-journal for Psychotherapists
Supervision Diploma
Wynne has worked as a supervisor and trainer in a wide variety of settings for over 15 Years. Her experience includes supervising counsellors of different orientations individually and in groups; senior nurses; counsellors working with substance abuse issues and support workers in a therapeutic community for women with severe mental health problems.
Wynne is currently Head of Service in a voluntary counselling agency and runs a private practice. Her areas of special interest include addiction issues and trauma, including specialist treatment of people diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.