CSTD BATH - Key Persons
Dawn Grantham M.A., is a UKCP registered Psychotherapist, Supervisor working with Adults, Children and Young People. Dawn is also an EMDR Therapist a Tutor for The Association of Sandplay Therapists and The
Centre for Psychotherapy Education, is the Lead Counsellor in 2 schools and has a private practice in central London. As an Integrative and Transpersonal practitioner she is particularly keen to explore the
Jane Purkiss, MA, PGCE, is a UKCP registered psychotherapist with 20 years experience of training and supervision. She was Director of Studies at the Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling from 2007-2011. One of her areas of interest is post modern approaches to loss and separation. She has run training days on this theme in various locations in the South West and published articles in The British Journal of Psychotherapy Integration (2010) and Self and Society (2009). Jane's background is in education and she is fluent in French.
Kate Bowman, MA, Cert. Ed., Dip HIC, Dip HIP, UKCP reg. Kate is a psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. She is Course Leader for the MA in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy at Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling. One of her areas of interest is the nature of psychotherapeutic integration - the intersubjective with the dialogical, the embodied with the imaginal, the personal with the collective - and how this might help us to relate to others in a way that allows us to hold a paradox of not knowing whilst listening to what is already known. She has been in private practice in Bath for 15 years.
Lisa Nel BA(Comb)Hons, PGCE, MBACP(Accred) has 33 years' experience in educational and therapeutic roles. She currently practises as a supervisor and integrative, humanistic counsellor with adults and under-18s in Warminster. Lisa teaches at the Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling, and also runs post-qualifying CPD courses in counselling children and young people.
Special interests include developing reflective supervision for pastoral staff in schools and learning new ways to support clients of all ages, impacted by trauma. Lisa has co-developed training about vicarious traumatisation with her colleague, Mark Stancombe, from a shared belief in the need for robust self-care in the helping professions.
Maria Storey Walker, MA, is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer working with adults, children and young people. She is Programme Director for the MA in Transpersonal Child, Adolescent and Family Therapy at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education (CCPE) in London, on which she lectures and supervises trainee psychotherapists. She has a private practice in London and in Shaftesbury, Dorset. Maria's psychotherapeutic approach combines talking therapy with creative exploration using dreams, sandplay, art and visualisation to help ‘make the unconscious conscious' and bring balance to life.
Martin Capps MSc, SM GPTI, is a gestalt psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer with over 20 years of experience in the private, NHS and third sectors working with individuals, couples and groups. He is currently a primary tutor on the Advanced Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy course of the Welsh Psychotherapy Partnership in Cardiff, and has taught at the Metanoia Institute. He is particularly interested in the relational aspects of shame and its impact on individuals and organisations, and in particular how it may present in the therapeutic and supervisory relationships. He works from his home near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire as well as in Chepstow, Monmouthshire.
Rae Howling C of Ed, CQSW, Dip HIP, MA HIP, UKCP Reg. Rae is a psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer, and works on the final stages of the psychotherapy MA at the Bath Centre of Psychotherapy and Counselling. She has a private practice in Bristol. Previously she worked as a senior social worker and family therapist. She is particularly interested in the integration of Intersubjective Systems Theory and Dialogical theory in her work as a psychotherapist. Rae has worked as a supervisor of psychotherapists and students in training for many years.