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Speaker BiographiesFriday – Crossing Boundaries strand Jane Gilbert is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist based in the UK. After many years within the UK National Health Service, she is now freelance. Jane now specialises in the design and delivery of workshops/training on psychological and mental health issues in cross-cultural contexts, and is a regular contributor to training courses in both the NGO and private sectors. She has worked in the UK, The Gambia, Uganda, Lesotho and Ghana. Her particular interests include the effects of culture and language on personal identity, and the integration of different cultural understandings in both training and mental health services. E mail: janegilbert@janegilbert.entadsl.com Website: www.janegilbert.co.uk Claire has worked as an Occupational Therapist in adult mental health services for 10 years before joining the University of Teesside teaching team. She holds an MA in Counselling, and has worked primarily with adults with a history of traumatic life events, providing group and individual therapies. Claire has a professional interest in working with the effects of psychological trauma. For the past three years Claire has been employed as a Psychological Therapist in a specialist general practice catering for refugees and people seeking asylum, and has been engaged in developing training for staff to help them to meet the particular needs of this client group. Author of 'Shame' a personal testimony, a national campaigner and advocate on the issues of South Asian women with regard to domestic violence and honour-based crimes. As the Director of Karma Nirvana, Jasvinder is a leader on raising the voice of victims and survivors who experience crimes rooted in the name of honour. Jasvinder is a survivor of a forced marriage and the founder member of Karma Nirvana now an Asian Men and Women's Project of local, regional, national and international significance. She is national media voice on the issues of South Asian Women. Jasvinder was awarded the Asian Woman of Achievement Award 2005 in the Social and Humanitarian category in recognition of the contribution to, and making a difference in, the lives of South Asian women and children. In September 2005, she was awarded the GG2 2005 Achievement through Adversity award, presented by Sir Ian Blair, Commissioner of the Metropolitan police, in recognition of her achievements and unrelenting determination. Jasvinder was awarded Hero of the Month by Marie Claire in their December 2004 issue, and received The Times/Natwest Community Enterprise Award in recognition of being an entrepreneur, and for her outstanding commitment to disadvantaged communities. Jasvinder went back into education aged 27 (she left school before the age of 16 to escape a forced marriage). She did her A levels, went on to successfully study and complete a BA degree in Social & Cultural Studies and, even though she was pregnant in her final year, was successful. Jasvinder is presently undertaking PhD research exploring the issues related to victims/survivors of honour-based crimes and identifying their survival strategies to offer hope to other disowned women and children. Jasvinder is also a mother of three children, Natasha 21, Anna 13 and Jordan 9 who regards herself as an activist. She doesn't believe anyone should be a prisoner of their past but rather an architect of their future and also that anything is possible. In these situations our families put us in the place of feeling we have shamed them, Jasvinder says it is them who should be shamed saying 'My Honour is Their Shame'. Friday – Happiness is? The goal of therapy strand Eluned Gold, PTSTA, CTA, UKCP Registered Psychotherapist, BA hons, Cert Couns (Relate), PGCE. Eluned has been a therapist for 15 years and has worked in a variety of settings both statutory and private. She has a long-standing meditation practice. Eluned currently works as a psychotherapist for Foster Care Associates and is an accredited teacher of Mindfulness-based approaches for the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) at Bangor University. Jody Boliston Mardula, M.Ed(Couns), PTSTA, MBACP Snr Reg, UKCP Reg. Psychotherapist. Jody has practised as a counsellor for over 20 years, and works as a counsellor, psychotherapist and supervisor, and delivers training in counselling, psychotherapy and working therapeutically with addictions, at colleges and institutes across the UK. She has been a meditator for many years and is an accredited teacher of Mindfulness-based approaches for the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University, and is interested in the interface between therapy and mindfulness. Nick Totton is a body psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer in private practice, and author of several books including 'Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction', 'Psychotherapy and Politics', and 'Press When Illuminated: New and Selected Poems'. He is also editor of the journal 'Psychotherapy and Politics International'; and is part of a full member group of the Independent Practitioners Network. Nick has a 21 year old daughter. He lives with his partner in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, and grows vegetables. Dr Richard Stevens and Nevia Mullan: Previously Head of Psychology at the Open University, Richard Stevens holds a first class degree in psychology from the University of Edinburgh as well as an MA (Trinity College Dublin) and a PhD by published work (Open University). His previous posts include Head of Psychology at Trinity College, Dublin and Visiting Professor at the University of California (Davis). He has been Chair of the Association for Humanistic Psychology in Britain and was a founder member of the Consciousness and Experiential Section of the BPS. His books include Freud and Psychoanalysis, Erik Erikson, Personal Worlds and Understanding the Self and he has contributed to numerous academic and other journals. He is currently series editor and author of two books in Palgrave Macmillan's forthcoming Mindshapers series. Dr Stevens broadcasts regularly on psychological issues including contributions to The World at One and The World Tonight. His current interest is in the psychology of wellbeing and he featured in the BBC TV series Making Slough Happy. Nevia trained as a counsellor at Karuna and Westminster College, Oxford. She is a senior accredited member of BACP and has been practising counselling since 1995. She set up and runs the counselling service for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. Her approach is integrative underpinned by person-centred principles. She adapts her modality to the requirements of the client, whether this be brief solution-focused therapy, or a transpersonal approach. Friday – Working with trauma strand Julia Hutchinson and Juan Carlos Lema: Julia Hutchinson (CPsychol; MBACP (Accred); BA; MSc; Grad Dip (FT)) is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist who has worked in Ireland, Australia and the UK in education, health and voluntary settings. Much of her work over the last 10 years has been with adults and children who have experienced sexual abuse and domestic violence. She has taught courses in counselling psychology, sexual abuse and suicide and self-harm at Birkbeck College in the Faculty of Continuing Education and continues to train other professionals in a variety of areas. She currently works at West London Action for Children and provides individual and family therapy and group work to children and their families, as well as running a small private practice offering supervision and consultation. Juan Carlos Lema (UKCP Reg; MSc SM; DFT; DSTTS) is a Clinical Psychologist, family therapist and management consultant. He works for different organisations both here and abroad, including West London Action for Children, seeing children and their families in psychotherapy and running parenting as well as therapeutic groups for children with their parents. He has worked with the United Nations managing victims of war and torture from Bosnia; Orphaids in Latin America, dealing with loss and bereavement; Open Channels working with displaced people from Colombia and Latin America; and with refugees from Iraq dealing with loss and bereavement. He teaches and supervises MSc students of Family therapy at Kensington Consultation Centre. Susan Prosser is an Emergency Mental Health Response Worker. Susan has spent 15 years in emergency response work with International Non-Government Organisations (INGOs) and UN agencies. She has worked in many worldwide emergencies, both in natural disasters and (chronic) conflict. Susan manages, coordinates and advises on emergency response programmes, in particular mental health and psychosocial activities. She is presently UN consultant for mental health and psychosocial emergency response covering the Middle East and North Africa with a focus on Iraq, Palestine and the Sudan. Michael has 15 years of experience in treating survivors of torture and other forms of organised violence. Having worked closely with Helen at The Medical Foundation as a senior clinician, he has been directly involved in the rehabilitation of hundreds of survivors of gross human rights violations. He has pioneered a revolutionary method for treating survivors and is a recognised expert in the field of trauma and recovery. He has authored several works on the subject. He is a consultant to trauma services and non governmental refugee programmes in the UK and worldwide. His international work included the development of a project in Afghanistan utilising story telling and drama as a means of providing therapeutic support for women traumatised by images and experiences of catastrophic violence and loss. Friday – Diversity training strand Dr. Harbrinder Dhillon-Stevens Dr. Harbrinder Dhillon-Stevens is a UKCP Registered Integrative Psychotherapist, Trainer, Supervisor and founder of Dhillonstevens Ltd, providing creative training solutions, professional consultancy and research in Equality and Diversity. She is also Child Art Psychotherapist (HPC Registered); Senior Lecturer in Counselling & Psychotherapy at University of Roehampton and a Primary Lecturer at the Metanoia Institute on the MSc Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology Programmes. Her research interests are in the field of dialogic encounters in anti-oppressive practice between therapists and clients and the implications of these on the therapeutic relationship. Her doctoral research was in this area. David Tredrea has been in front-line trauma for over 25 years having cut his teeth on UK burns and pain research before landing in Somalia just after 'Black Hawk Down' as UNICEF consultant in child trauma – then energetic stuff in Rwanda, Angola, Sierra Leone and other popular war zones helping hostages, victims and occasional bandits. David recently spent 12 years in Kenya running his own clinical crisis management centre with hands–on consultancy specialising in disaster, refugee/IDP assistance and emergency planning. Ounkar Kaur MSc, Dip. Counselling, BACP, EAC. Ounkar set up the Asian Women's Counselling Service in Bristol in 2000, a service which she has continued to develop. She conducts counselling sessions in Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu and English. Her MSc explored the appropriateness of Western and pan-American counselling theories to clients from black and ethnic minority groups. The MSc to some extent is a powerful expos of inherent racism in Western approaches to counselling. She has a specific interest in integrating cultural issues in mainstream counselling and counselling training programmes. She is further exploring these themes in her current research and has lectured in issues on 'working with cultural' for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme at Bristol University Friday – Consultancy and politics strand Hilde Rapp has worked all her life to help people articulate their needs; create opportunities for participation in decision making; work with difference and diversity; resolve conflicts; and to improve dialogue, communication and healing. She has a background in sociology, politics, philosophy, economics, psychology and communication. Hilde is an experienced psychotherapist, supervisor, specialist in public health and an organisational consultant. She writes and lectures widely and she is a member of a number of national and international organisations, working groups and professional and editorial boards. She retains a strong interest in professional standards, competence and accountability and sits on the registration board for public health specialists and is Chair of the qualifications development board of the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body. She is also a member of the Steering Group for National Occupational Standards for Health and Safety regarding violence in the workplace. Hilde works across sectors to implement policy frameworks, focusing on evidence based practice, ethical performance and good governance in the field of health and education, and leads the implementation of the National Service Framework for Mental Health in two London boroughs. She is the Director of the Nepalese Health Network, Co-director of the Centre for International Peacebuilding, whom she represents at the United Nations, and she has been a director of the UK Ministry for Peace initiative. Hilde works to help co-ordinate the activities of NGOs with governmental and intergovernmental agencies, the military, religious leaders and civil society stakeholders in order to improve cooperation and coordination in programme planning in the fields of conflict transformation, security, development, trauma work, and peacebuilding. She is helping to implement the recommendations of the Commission for Africa, and she is actively involved in peacebuilding in Nepal and the Middle East. Hilde Rapp, Co-Director, Centre for International Peacebuilding, 21 Priory Terrace, London NW6 4DG, Phone +44 (0)20 7625 4287, Email: rapp.cip@gmail.com Mark Brayne is a psychotherapist and trainer specialising in trauma and journalism, having served for 30 years as foreign correspondent and senior editor for Reuters and the BBC World Service. Mark is now Director Europe of the US-based Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma, working with journalists, mental health professionals and educators towards improving media coverage of violence and trauma. He developed, and implemented for the BBC, a programme of trauma awareness and support training for journalists, editors and managers at news organisations around the world, including the Washington Post and Newsweek, WDR Television in Germany, the Arabic news channel al Jazeera and the Financial Times in London. Mark is a visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University Media School in the UK, and lectures regularly on journalism and trauma at other universities such as Cardiff and City University in the UK. He is a member of the Board of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and has worked with the ESTSS in countries such as Turkey, Spain, the UK, Sweden and Croatia in developing a greater awareness of trauma among journalists, and a better understanding of journalism among trauma professionals. In his 20-year career as foreign correspondent, from 1973 to 1992, Mark was based in Moscow, East and West Berlin, Vienna, Beijing and London, covering amongst other stories the height of the Cold War in Europe, the emergence of post-Mao China onto the world economic and political scene, and the violent revolution in Romania which overthrew Central Europe's last communist ruler Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989. Mark put away his reporter's notebook in 1992, and while working as a senior editor with the European language programmes of the BBC in London, played a central role in developing a confidential counselling service for BBC staff. He also implemented a programme of compulsory hostile environment training for journalists reporting from regions of conflict or continuing danger. In his spare time, he trained as a transpersonal psychotherapist at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education (CCPE) in London, graduating in 2000 with a Master's Degree and thesis on the Personal Experience of the Foreign Correspondent. Mark and his wife Sue live in the beautiful Cotswold town of Cirencester. Besides their training work, they each have a small private psychotherapy practice specialising in trauma and PTSD. See their website www.braynework.com. Ian Gilmore, MBACP (Snr Accred), FBACP has been involved in therapeutics for over 30 years, and has held several posts in both further and higher education as well as in social work. He has been working solely in private practice and as an independent consultant for over a decade. He particularly enjoys taking the skills and processes that derive from therapeutics and applying them to new settings. He has undertaken numerous International Consultancy Assignments, Forensic Assignments and Critical Incident Responses, and has this year been working with people who were involved in the Grayrigg derailment in Cumbria on 23 February 2007. Saturday – Crossing boundaries strand Meera Kapadia is a BACP Accredited and UKCP Registered Integrative Psychotherapist with over 17 years' experience in the field. She provides therapy in Gujarati, Hindi and English. She works for TLZ Young People's Counselling Service, CAMHS, and Newham Asian Women's Project (NAWP) and is a part-time lecturer at Regents College. She is particularly interested in adapting Western psychological theory to different cultural groups. To this end, she worked in India to distinguish universal counselling tenets from culturally relative counselling tenets. She worked with earthquake survivors in rural India and has published articles about these experiences: CPJ (July and December 2001), Eistach (2002). Andrew Grimmer (MSc Counselling Psychology, PG Dip CBT, Dip Couns) is a full member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors (MNZAC) and an accredited member of the BACP (MBACP). Since 2005 he has worked as a Senior Clinician for Procare Psychological Services in South Auckland, New Zealand, providing psychological assessment, CBT and counselling to a multicultural client group including Maori, Pacific Island and European New Zealanders. His previous jobs included being Manager of tertiary education provider Unitec's Counselling Centre and a Case Manager for the EAP provider ICAS in the UK. He was born and raised in the UK to New Zealand and British parents, and migrated to New Zealand in 2002 in order to learn more about the country of his father's birth. Arthur Fuhrer, M.D., Co-Founder and President, Kasamba Saturday – Happiness is? The goal of therapy strand Colin Feltham is Professor of Critical Counselling Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. As well as having a breadth of knowledge in the counselling field, his recent interests have turned to the question of less examined sources of distress, as outlined in his What's Wrong With Us? The Anthropathology Thesis (Wiley, 2007). Dr Nick Baylis of Cambridge University is a scientist, therapist and lecturer specialising in 'well-being' ...which is 'life going well'. This pursuit requires science, art and craft ie bringing together of head, heart, and hands-on. The new field of Well-being isn't a collection of hints and tips on how to be happier. It's about understanding life at its wonderful, beautiful best, and helping that to happen far more often for you and me and those we care for. Nick's mission is to identify and foster the essential ingredients – the common denominators – of a life well lived. Nick is:
Daniel Nettle is Reader in Psychology at Newcastle University. His work centres on individual differences, emotions and emotional disorders. He is author of 'Happiness: The Science behind your Smile' (Oxford University Press, 2005) and 'Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are' (Oxford University Press, 2007). Saturday – Working with trauma strand Susan Prosser is an Emergency Mental Health Response Worker. Susan has spent 15 years in emergency response work with International Non-Government Organisations (INGOs) and UN agencies. She has worked in many worldwide emergencies, both in natural disasters and (chronic) conflict. Susan manages, coordinates and advises on emergency response programmes, in particular mental health and psychosocial activities. She is presently UN consultant for mental health and psychosocial emergency response covering the Middle East and North Africa with a focus on Iraq, Palestine and the Sudan. David Tredrea has been in front-line trauma for over 25 years having cut his teeth on UK burns and pain research before landing in Somalia just after 'Black Hawk Down' as UNICEF consultant in child trauma – then energetic stuff in Rwanda, Angola, Sierra Leone and other popular war zones helping hostages, victims and occasional bandits. David recently spent 12 years in Kenya running his own clinical crisis management centre with hands–on consultancy specialising in disaster, refugee/IDP assistance and emergency planning. Alison Russell & Mike O'Connor Ali Russell is Acting Principal Psychologist. Clackmannanshire Psychological Service Ali is a chartered psychologist who has worked in local authority psychological services for over 20 years. She has specialised in working with children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties, and also in the field of fostering and adoption. Ali was involved in the immediate remedial work after the shootings in Dunblane in March 1996, and, until December 1999 was a member of the multidisciplinary team set up for the community of Dunblane in the aftermath of the tragedy. She has worked for the past seven years with the Interventions for Recovery project, providing training, consultation, and therapeutic services for those affected by loss and trauma, and for the staff working with them. Ali is a UK and Ireland accredited EMDR Consultant. Mike O'Connor is the Director of the Notre Dame Centre, Glasgow. He is a chartered psychologist who has worked in a school for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties, a child guidance centre, an adolescent unit and a local authority psychological service. He was involved in the initial response to the shootings in Dunblane Primary School in 1996. From April 1996 to July 1999 he worked as a member of a multidisciplinary team set up for the Dunblane community after the tragic events of March 1996. From that time he has been involved in setting up a number of projects providing therapeutic services to children and families affected by loss and trauma, including the Interventions for Recovery project for Clackmannanshire Council and the Recovery After Trauma project at the Notre Dame Centre. Mike is an accredited EMDR Consultant. Noreen is a chartered occupational, counselling and health psychologist. She formed her own company in 1997 to assist organisations in dealing with a wide range of psychological problems including long term sickness absence, stress, bullying and trauma. Noreen has a special interest in psychological trauma and has published a number of papers, articles and books on trauma care programmes, trauma counselling and debriefing. Noreen has worked with victims of the Manchester bomb, the Paddington and Potters Bar rail crashes and victims of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre buildings and the Pentagon. She has also supported victims of a wide range of other traumatic incidents including: murders, rapes, fatal accidents, bullying and road crashes. Noreen chaired a British Psychological Society a working party on trauma debriefing. Noreen's latest book 'Workplace Trauma – concepts, assessment and intervention' was published in September 2004 and she is currently a member of the BPS working party on Trauma, Crisis and Disasters. Saturday – Diversity training strand Claire has worked as an Occupational Therapist in adult mental health services for 10 years before joining the University of Teesside teaching team. She holds an MA in Counselling, and has worked primarily with adults with a history of traumatic life events, providing group and individual therapies. Claire has a professional interest in working with the effects of psychological trauma. For the past three years Claire has been employed as a Psychological Therapist in a specialist general practice catering for refugees and people seeking asylum, and has been engaged in developing training for staff to help them to meet the particular needs of this client group. Kate Anthony, MSc runs OnlineCounsellors.co.uk, a training company for mental health practitioners who wish to work with clients online. She is the author of several articles on the use of email, bulletin boards, IRC, videoconferencing, stand-alone software and more radical innovative use of technology within therapeutic practice, such as virtual reality. She developed the 1st and 2nd Editions of the BACP Guidelines for Online Counselling and Psychotherapy. She presents at an international level at conferences and is co-editor of Technology in Counselling and Psychotherapy - A Practitioners Guide. She is Past-President and Fellow of the International Society for Mental Health Online. Kate works with adult survivors of sexual abuse with the charity Family Matters, and has a private practice. Kate is currently working on her DPsych doctorate. Dominic Davies is a BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist who has been working with gender and sexual minorities for over 25 years. He is Director of Pink Therapy, the UK's largest independent specialist therapy organisation working with gender and sexual minorities. Dominic (with Charles Neal), co-edited three volumes of Pink Therapy textbooks and a recent issue of Self & Society. Saturday – Consultancy and politics strand Andrew Samuels has for many years been an advocate for the incorporation of 'therapy thinking' into political discourses, as well as a leading participant in the politics of the profession of psychotherapy. He works internationally as a political consultant. He has also been active in campaigning to end discrimination against sexual and ethnic minorities within psychotherapy. He was co-founder of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility. Andrew has a special interest in the Middle East and was a co-founder of Jews for Justice for Palestinians. He was a founder member of the Tikkun Network for Spiritual Progressives in the US (Tikkun is the Hebrew word for 'repair and restoration of the world'). Currently, he is researching the political and personal potential of the Qu'ranic idea of Ta'aruf (meaning 'that you shall get to know one another'). Andrew is a university professor and a psychotherapist who has developed over 30 years a blend of post-Jungian, relational psychoanalytic and humanistic clinical approaches. His many books include: 'The Plural Psyche'; 'The Political Psyche'; and the award-winning 'Politics on the Couch'. Ian Gilmore, MBACP (Snr Accred), FBACP has been involved in therapeutics for over 30 years, and has held several posts in both further and higher education as well as in social work. He has been working solely in private practice and as an independent consultant for over a decade. He particularly enjoys taking the skills and processes that derive from therapeutics and applying them to new settings. He has undertaken numerous International Consultancy Assignments, Forensic Assignments and Critical Incident Responses, and has this year been working with people who were involved in the Grayrigg derailment in Cumbria on 23 February 2007. Nick Totton is a body psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer in private practice, and author of several books including 'Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction', 'Psychotherapy and Politics', and 'Press When Illuminated: New and Selected Poems'. He is also editor of the journal 'Psychotherapy and Politics International'; and is part of a full member group of the Independent Practitioners Network. Nick has a 21 year old daughter. He lives with his partner in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, and grows vegetables. Biography will appear here when available
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