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TCCR staff have qualified and practised in one or more of the following professions: social work, clinical psychology, psychosexual therapy, psychiatry, counselling and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. 

In addition, staff undertake professional development to top up their substantial experience and expertise in teaching, training and consultation, as well as research and writing.

Patrons

  • Sir Nicholas Wall
  • Lady Margaret Wall

Senior Management Team

  • Chief Executive Officer: Susanna Abse, Cert.Ed., Cert.MarCouns, Dip. Mar.Psych, BSCPC (FM), BPC
  • Director of Training and Consultation: Maureen Boerma, MSc, Dip Psychodynamic Cpl Couns, Dip Psychosex Th, Dip CplPsych, MBACP (Snr. Accred), COSRT (GM), BSCPC (FM), BPC, Cert Supervision (SAP)
  • Director of Clinical Services: Andrew Balfour, MSc, C.Clin.Psychol.TQAP, Dip. Cple Psych, BSCPC (FM), BPC
  • Director of Projects and Strategic Development: Honor Rhodes, BA (Hons), LLB (Hons), CQSW, MSc
  • Director of Finance: Russell Barnes-Heath, BSc (Hons), FCMA/CGMA
  • Head of Administration and Buildings: Badri Houshidar, BA (Hons), MA

Faculty Staff

  • Head of Clinical Services: Jean Pennant, MA, Dip. Psych.Cpl.Cllg., Dip. Group Cllg., Dip. Psychosexual Cllg., Dip.Supn., COSRT (Accred), BACP (Accred), BSCPC (FM)
  • Head of MA and PD programme in Couple Psychotherapy and Reader in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Mary Morgan, BA (Hons), MSc, CQSW, Dip. Mar. Psych, BSCPC (FM), M.Inst.Psychoanal, BPC
  • Head of PgDip, Counselling and Introductory Courses: Julie Humphries, BA (Hons), MA, MSc, PgDip, BSCPC
  • Head of MA in Attachment, Psychoanalysis and the Study of Couple Relationship, Head of Research and Academic Links: David Hewison, D.Cple.Psych.Psych, MA, LLB, Dip.SW, CQSW, Dip.Mar.Psych, Cert.Mgmt (Open), BSCPC (FM), SAP (PM), CAP (FM), UKCP, BPC
  • Programme Head of MSc in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy: Marian O'Connor, MA, PGCE, PGDipPsychoanalyticalCpl, PGDipPsychosex.Th., Dip.Supervision, BACP, CORST, BSCPC
  • Project and Development Manager Baby Makes 3 and Hackney Project: Sara Breinlinger, PhD, PG.DP CplTh
  • Lead Trainer, Couple Therapy for Depression: Harriet Drake, BSc, MSc Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy, Dip.Psychodynamic Mar. Th., BACP, COSRT, BSCPC
  • Head of Parenting Together Programmes: Leezah Hertzmann, MA, B.Mus, PGCE, DipSysFamTh, TCCR QCplPsych, BSCPC (FM) BPC, TSP, UKCP
  • Senior Research Psychotherapist (Parents in Conflict Study), Deputy Lead - Parenting Together Service: Krisztina Glausius, MA, Dip.Psychodynamic.MAR.Th, BACP (M), BSCPC (FM)
  • Couple Psychoanalytic Therapist and Clinical Lecturer: Damian Mc Cann, BA, CQSW, MSc Systemic Psychotherapy, Advanced Award Systemic Supervision, Doc. Systemic Psychotherapy, UKCP (Reg)
  • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Clinical Lecturer: Viveka Nyberg, BSc, CQSW, DipCplePsych., BSCPC (FM), BAP (SM), BPC
  • Couple Therapist and Clinical Lecturer (CPD and External Trainings): Catriona Wrottesley, Postgraduate Diploma in Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (TCCR), M.A (Psychoanalytic Studies), Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Studies (WPF), Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Studies, Herts and Beds Counselling Foundation (WPF), M.A (English Lit & Lang).
  • Senior Academic Tutor in Psychosexual Studies: Janice Hiller, BSc ( Hons) MPhil. C. Clin Psychol, AFBPsS.
  • Research and Trial Coordinator: Ona McCarthy, MSc Epidemiology

Core Clinical Staff

  • Linsey Blair, MA, PgDip
  • Sara Breinlinger, PhD, PG.DP CplTh
  • Pierre Cachia, BPsy (Hons), MPsy (Couns), Dip. GPTIM, Dip. Supervision, CPsychol, UKCP Reg, ECP, MA Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
  • Rosemary Gaskell Taylor, Dip. Psychodynamic. Mar. Th., BACP (Accd)
  • Naomi Goodman, BA (Hons), Dip.Psychodynamic.Mar.Th, MA Attachment, Psychoanalysis and the Couple Relationship, BACP (Accr), BSCPC
  • Joanna Harrison, BA (Hons) and  Dip.Psychodynamic.Mar.Th

Policy, Marketing and Communications

  • Policy and Communications Manager: Richard Meier, MA in Psychoanalytic Studies
  • Marketing and Digital Communications Manager: Junko Kinney

Administration and Finance

  • Clinical Administration Manager: Heather Williamson
  • Training Administration Manager: Joanna Bending
  • Training Administrator: Sofia Rose
  • Events Manager and Executive Assistant to the CEO:  Becky Walker
  • Accounts Assistant: Aizetta Bande
  • Admin Assistant (Counselling Services): Catherine Bodley
  • Admin Assistant (Counselling Services): Hasina Akther
  • Admin Assistant (Training and Clinical Services): Thahmina Begum
  • Librarian and Assistant to Head of Administration and Buildings: Kamila Buczek
  • Senior Receptionist: Alex Thomas
  • Receptioninst: Anna Clover
  • Receptionist: Mandip Matharu

 Visiting Lecturers and Clinicians

  • Afia Aboagye, Dip.Psychodynamic.Mar.Th
  • Limor Abramov, BA (Hons), M.Sc. ClinPsych (Hons), CPsychol BPS (FM), DipCplPsych, BSCPC (FM) BPC, TSP
  • Viv Adler, BA Dip.Psychodynamic.Mar.Th
  • Clare Arafa, BA (Hons), Dip.Psychodynamic.Mar.Th, BACP (Accred)
  • Nick Barwick, MA (Oxon), PGCE, MA, CertCouns (WPF),PGDipCouns (Birkbeck), MInstGA, UKCP reg
  • Christel Buss Twachtmann, BSc, Dip. Mar. Psych, BSCPC (FM), BPC
  • Grace Caluori
  • Christopher Clulow, PhD, GCSW, BSCPC (FM), BPC
  • Lin Coleman, BA (Hons), MA Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, BSCPC (FM), BPC, MBACP (Snr. Accred)
  • Patricia Coleman, M.Ed, BA, DipCplPsych, BPC, BSCPC (FM)
  • Lynne Cudmore, MPsychPsych, BA (Hons), BSCPC (FM), ACP (M), BPC (FM)
  • Alison Clarke, BA (Hons), Dip.Psychodynamic.Mar.Th, Dip.Psychosex.Th
  • Orpa Daniels, BA (Hons), Cert.MarCouns, DipMar Psych, BSCPC (FM), BPC
  • Miriam Donaghy, BA (Hons), MA (counselling & Psychotherapy), UKCP (regd), member of UPCA
  • Emma di Landro, PgDip Psychodynamic Couple Counselling
  • Frances Eaton, BA, CQSW, Dip.Psychodynamic.Mar.Th
  • Richard Flax, Dip.Psychodynamic.Mar.Th
  • Sarah Fletcher, BSc (Hons), Dip.Psychosex.Ther, COSRT (Accred), UKCP, BACP (Accred), Dip. Supervision (SAP)
  • Stephen Geale, MA, Certificate in Counselling in the Development of Learning, PG Dip in Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy, BSCPC (FM)
  • Golshad Ghiaci, MA, TCCRQ.Cple.Psych.Psych, BSc (Psych), BSCPC (FM), LCP (SM), BPC
  • Laura Gibbons BSc (Hons), MA, Relate Cert in Couple Counselling, PGDip Psychodynamic Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Counselling, BSCPC
  • Lisa Glenn, BSc (Hons) Psychology, British Psychological Society (FM), Inst.Group Analysis (FM), Society of Analytical Psychology (AM)
  • John Goodchild, BA, CQSW, Dip.Soc.Admin, LCP (AM)
  • Elke Grolig, BA SW, PG Dip Psychodynamic Couple and Individual Psychotherapy, GSCC, BSCPC
  • Alison Hairettin, BSc (Econ), Dip.Psychodynamic Mar.Th, MSc Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy, COSRT (M), BSCPC (FM)
  • Liz Hamlin, MA Cple Psych Psych, PG Dip, Relate Cert Supv, Relate Cert Marital Therapy, BSCPC (FM), BPC, BACP
  • Lottie Hansjee, BA (Hons), Dip.Psychodynamic.Mar.Th
  • Michael Heimann, IGA, LCP, BPC, UKCP
  • Georgina Holt BA (Hons), PGDip Psychodynamic Couple Counselling, MBACP, BSCPC
  • Adam Hooper , PgDip Psycho-dynamic Couple and Individual Psychotherapy
  • Sheelagh Hughes MA, Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Couple Counselling (TCCR)
  • Susan Irving, MA, DipCplPsych, CQSW, BAP (Senior Member), BSCPC (FM), BPC
  • Brett Kahr B.A. (Psychol.), MA, MSc (Psychol.), Dip. App. Psychol., Cert. Forensic Psych., Dip. Forensic Psych., Dip. Marital Psych., Dip. Infant Mental Health, Dip. Creative Arts Therapies, Advanced Cert. Systemic Practice with Families and Couples, Dip. Systemic Practice with Families and Couples, MBSCPC, MLCP, MIPD, M. Bowlby Centre, UKCP Reg., BPC Reg.
  • Anna Kingsley, MA, PG Dip, BSCPC, COSRT
  • Monica Lanman, MSW, BA, TQAP, DipMarPsych., TSP (M), BPC
  • Lorraine Landau, Dip.Psychodynamic.Mar.Th, Dip.Psychosex.Th, BACP (Accred), COSRT (M), MSc Psychosexual Therapy, BSCPC (FM)
  • Isabelle Law, MA, MSc Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy, PGCE, Dip.PsychodynamicMarTh, Dip.Psychosex.Th, Cert Supervision (SAP), BACP (Accred), COSRT, BSCPC(FM)
  • Caroline Medawar, Dip.Soc. Studies. CQSW, Dip.Psychoanlytic Psychotherapy, Dip.Cple Psych, BSCPC (FM).BPC
  • Peta Mees, DPsychotherapy, MPsychPsych, MA, Dip Cple Psych Psych, Dip DMT, BSCPC (FM) TSP (FM) ACP (FM)
  • Bob Monzo, MA, AdvDipSW, DipCplePsych, BSCPC (FM), BPC
  • Michael Morris, BA (Hons), Dip.Psychodynamic.Mar.Th., BACP (M)
  • Dorota Mucha, MA Social Psychology, PgDip Psychodynamic Couple and Individual Psychotherapy, MBPsS, BSCPC (FM)
  • Clare Murray, PhD, Dip.Psychodynamic.Mar.Th
  • Aleksandra Novakovic, MSc, Clin. Psychol BPS, BSCPC, Memb.Inst.GA, BAP, BPA, BPC
  • Felicia Olney, Dip.Soc.Studies, Dip.Soc.Work, CQSW, Dip.Mar.Psych., BSCPC (FM) BPC
  • Jenny Riddell, MA Psych Studies, MA Modern Drama Studies, PGCE, BPC, BSCPC (Dip Psych.Cpl.Psych.), COSRT, UKCP, TBC, BAPPS, MBACP (Accred)
  • Amita Sehgal, MA (Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy), PhD, BSCPC (FM), BPC (Registrant)
  • Jane Seymour, MA Psychoanalytic Studies, Dip.Psych Mar.Th., Dip.Psychosex.Th., COSRT (Accred), UKCP, BACP (Accred), Cert Supervision (SAP)
  • Ruth Shane BA, Dip. PsychodynamicMarTh, Cert.Supervision (BAPPS), MBACP, UKCP and CPJA reg. psychoanalytic psychotherapist (Guild of Psychotherapists), BSCPC (FM)
  • Avi Shmueli, PhD, Dip.Clin.Psychol., Dip.Mar.Psych. BSCPC (FM), BPAS (M), BPC, M.Inst.Psychoanal.
  • Zsuzsa Sipos, BSc, MA, Dipl.Clin.Psych, MSc, Memb.Inst. GA
  • Kim Spicer, MA, MSc Psychodynamic counselling, BACP (Sen. Accred) UKCP (Guild of Psychotherapists)
  • Poppy Street, MSc, Dip.Psychodynamic Mar.Th., MBaCP, COSRT
  • Fatima Syedan, BA Psychology, PG Dip Cpl Relationship Counselling TCCR
  • Jill Thompson, BSc (Hons), Dip Psychodynamic Marital and Couple (LMGC), Dip Psychosexual Marital and Couple therapy (LMGC), MBACP (Accred), UKRCP (Reg'd), COSRT
  • Carola Thorpe, BAP, BPC
  • Sarah Tucker: BA (Hons), MSc, MPhil, Group Analyst, UKCP (Reg)
  • Joanne Turner, Dip. Psychodynamic Mar. Th.
  • Stella Vaines, BA (Hons), MA TCCRQ.Cple.Psych.Psych ., Relate certificate in systemic family therapy, BSCPC (full member), BPC reg
  • Sarah Vicary, Dip.Psychodynamic.Mar.Th
  • Chris Vincent, M.A., B.Phil., BSCPC (FM), BPC
  • Carolyn Watts, MA, Dip.Soc.Anth., Dip.Psychodynamic.Mar.Th., BSCPC (FM), BACP (M)
  • Kirsty White, BA (Hons), PGDip Information Research Methods, Dip.Psychodynamic.Mar.Th, MSc Psychosexual Therapy, COSRT (M)
  • Sandra Yarwood, BSoc (Hons), Dip.Psychodynamic.Mar.Th
  • Paula Zeff, BA, NMGC Superv.,Dip.Anal.GroupTh.,Adv.Cert. Psychosex Th.& Superv. (FM)

Senior Fellows in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

  • Christopher Clulow, PhD, GCSW, BSCPC (FM), BPC
  • Jill Savege Scharff, MD, Chair, International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training
  • David Scharff, MD, Chair, International Psychotherapy Institute, Washington, USA
  • Senior Research Fellows
  • Gordon Harold, PhD, Chair in Behavioural Genetics and Developmental Psychopathology, University of Leicester
  • Philip Cowan, PhD Emeritus Professor, University of California, Berkley
  • Carolyn Pape Cowan, PhD Emeritus Professor, University of California, Berkley, USA

External Examiners

  • Helen Tarsh, LL.B. Barrister-At-Law., Dip. Mar. Psych., BSCPC (Full Member), BPC
  • Judith Woodhead MA, D.An.Psych, Jungian analyst (Society of Analytical Psychology), BPC (Registered), Consultant parent-infant psychotherapist (Anna Freud Centre, London)
  • Janet McNaught, MA Theory and Practice of Counselling, COSRT & BACP Accredited, UUCP registered
  • Dr Elphis Christopher, MB.BS, Member of the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine, Senior Member of The British Association of Psychotherapists (Jungian), BPC, UKCP, IAAP Supervisor for the Relate Licensed Couple Therapists

The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology – Council of Trustees

  • Chair: Dr Anton Obholzer – Chair
  • Vice Chair: Mr Kip Meek
  • Ms. Agnes Bryan
  • Ms. Ros Bryar
  • Mrs Linda Chung
  • Dr Bob Jezzard
  • Mr. Gordon Lane
  • Mr Bruce Mauleverer QC
  • Ms. Ann Pleshette-Murphy
  • Mr Martin Roddy
  • Mr. Robert Rowland-Smith
  • Mr. Stan Ruszczynski
  • Ms Hazel Wright
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