Sanjay Badhan is an integrative psychotherapist based in Birmingham within the West Midlands. He currently spend most of my therapeutic time working as a Lead Therapeutic Practitioner in a specialist provision for children and young people (CYP). As this provision is a multi-academy trust (MAT), he is responsible for ensuring that the therapy model runs ethically, safely and competently across multiple sites. Within this model, they developed a trainee therapist program for students looking to gain experience working therapeutically with CYP with specialist needs such as neurodivergence and SEMH.
For the past 13 years, they have worked in a range of settings that offer therapeutic support. Some of the specialist areas of work have focused on bereavement, eating disorders, suicide, neurodivergence and SEMH. Sanjay's academic background in Psychology has theoretically supplemented their therapy practice, which is my main passion. Alongside their work in education, tjey run a private practice. Badhan Therapy offers support for both adults and CYP.
Catriona Keane holds degrees in Psychotherapy, Psychology, and Child and Adolescent Art Psychotherapy. Her training led to extensive experience across a range of mental health settings, enabling her to refine the client group to specialise in working with students. She has spent over a decade working as a University Counsellor in both Ireland and the UK and is currently exploring how art-based methods can be integrated within higher education.
Catriona is the Head of Student Health and Wellbeing and Counsellor at Magdalene College, Cambridge. She is motivated by the multi-faceted nature of the Executive Committee role and values the opportunity to shape, strengthen, and further develop the counselling provision for students across HE/FE/SFC settings and support members who are part of the division.. She has an interest in the evolving landscape of student mental health provision, in particular with the acceleration of AI therapists and remains curious about how these innovations may, or may not, sit alongside existing therapeutic frameworks.
Jack Jackson is an Accredited MBACP Counsellor currently living in North Wales and working in Higher Education as the Wellbeing Manager at Bangor University.
He came out openly as Transgender in 2016 at a job interview in the NHS having known about his gender identity from around the age of 7 years old.
Jack was the Stonewall UK & Cymru Transgender Role Model 2018 and nominated for the Pink News LGBT+ Role Model award in 2019. He has also been nominated for staff achievement awards within the NHS for his work around Mental Health as well as Equality & Diversity.
He supports Local and National Transgender Organisations across Wales and offers support across the UK to the transgender and non –binary community. He is also a stakeholder on the Trans Wales Partnership group and has previously been a joint coordinator of a research group - SURAGth led by the Nottingham University Professor of Mental Health & Transgender Health.
Tati Silva is a BACP-accredited psychotherapist, DPsych researcher, and Executive Director of the BACP Private Practice Division. With over ten years in private practice, they bring both clinical depth and a genuine passion for the practitioner community to my role on the executive team.
They are the founder of 8 Dimensions of Wellness and the creator of The Wholeness Framework™, an integrative model that bridges evidence-based psychotherapy with holistic and psychoeducational approaches to wellbeing. Alongside their private practice, Tati currently work as a psychedelic therapist in research at Imperial College London, and they am deeply interested in the BreakGround themes shaping the future of our profession, particularly the therapeutic potential of psychedelics and the evolving role of AI in counselling and psychotherapy.
