METANOIA - Key Persons
Barbara has worked in the field of counselling and psychotherapy for many years. She set up a counselling service when asked to so by a local school. She worked with young people and adults, both individually and in groups, together with some members of the local community. She ran it for more than ten years and this included delivering training programmes and workshops as well as working with outside agencies.
Alongside this she developed a thriving private practice in North London in which she works today as a psychotherapist, counsellor, supervisor and facilitator. Barbara has a keen interest in relational issues and trauma. She is also committed to lifelong learning and development.
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- Advisor
- Coach
- Consultant
- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Vice Chair and Chair of Finance Sub - Committee )
Dotun Olaleye is Consultant, Advisor and Coach who develops and implements growth strategies, leads performance transformation and builds capabilities for organisations across the education, charitable and public sectors.
Andrea Uphoff, PhD, is a client-centred psychotherapist whose clinical training began in the early ‘90s after stumbling across a brochure about Carl Rogers. The text, serendipitously lying on a friend's kitchen table, seemed to speak directly to me. I was prompted to take voluntary redundancy from my career with an international airline and set off on a new journey full of discovery by applying for a course in person-centred counselling and psychotherapy. I am UKCP registered and also licensed to practise in Germany and so divide my work - including training and supervision - across the two countries. Over the years I have variously worked in tertiary psychiatric care and as a supervisor of psychiatric and hospice teams. My experience covers a number of international and multicultural settings. I trained and now supervise a group of Muslim counsellors originating from a number of countries and have also worked with traumatised refugees in Jordan. My teaching experience covers MA, BA and Diploma-levels and my research has focussed on touch in psychotherapy. I have authored various chapters and articles contributing to person-centred literature and am a former convenor of BAPCA (British Association for the Person-Centred Approach) and previous board member of NEAPCEPC (Network of European Associations for Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling. Currently I lecture at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt and have a practice with two colleagues in Bodenheim, a village on the Rhine. I have been a practitioner of Sahaj Marg meditation for the last twenty years.
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- Director of Studies
- Director of Studies MSc Gestalt Psychotherapy
- Faculty Head
- Head of Faculty
- Programme Leader
Dr. Di Hodgson BA, MSc. Gestalt Psychotherapy, DPsych, Cert. Supervision UKCP Registered Psychotherapist. Di is a psychotherapist and supervisor with a private practice in Poole, Dorset. She has worked in the field of counselling and psychotherapy for over 30 years. Di works with a diverse client group, many of whom have early developmental traumas.
Di is a member of the editorial team of the British Gestalt Journal.
She has chaired the GPTI executive and the UKCP diversity, equalities and social responsibility committee.
Until recently, Di concurrently worked as an organisational development consultant, and executive coach, where she worked with leaders primarily in the education, regulatory and legal sectors. Her doctoral studies focussed on relational breakdown in psychotherapy and the case for mediation. She is particularly interested in the influence of Gestalt in the wider field, diversity and ethics.
Di is visiting trainer in Poland and Bulgaria, and an external examiner in Poland.
Lynda is a psychotherapist and supervisor with a private practice in Farnham, Surrey. She has a background in education including lecturing in Health Education at London University. She has been involved in counselling and psychotherapy since 1980 and as a counselling and psychotherapy trainer since 1987. Lynda has considerable experience of couples work and is also an international trainer.
Dr Simon Carrington PhD, MSc, MBA, is Head of Policy, Planning and Compliance at Metanoia Institute
Simon has worked for over 20 years in higher education in universities, the NHS and independent providers. He has been an academic and researcher in Schools of Pharmacy during which time he has developed new degree programmes, been course director for MPharm Pharmacy, raised research grant income and supervised 10 doctoral students. He is an experienced manager and leader in higher education with experience in compliance, partnerships, academic quality and registry. Simon has an ongoing interest in supporting the development of teaching quality in independent providers.
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- Director of Studies MSc Integrative Psychotherapy
Dr John Hills, MA, PhD, MBACP (Accred), SFHEA is a BACP accredited psychotherapist, a member of the national Pluralistic Practice steering group and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. John trained in integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Leeds where he took his PhD, and went on to become a senior lecturer, course leader and course director at Leeds Beckett University. John's PhD centred upon the meaning and patterns of therapeutic change as modelled between therapist and client.
John has been in practice since 2011 and has worked in a variety of settings including prison counselling, cancer and hospice care, and student counselling. John practices privately from West Yorkshire. As a practitioner he has a particular interest in pluralistic, systemic, and existential approaches to counselling and psychotherapy. As a researcher he is particularly interested in change in psychotherapy, systemic reframing of psychotherapy change principles, and the social contexts in which psychotherapy takes place, including the social determinants of mental health.
John is also a practitioner-researcher of psychological therapies. In addition to training work, John has four PhD students and has organised several research conferences, including serving as local host for the Society for Psychotherapy Research's UK conference in 2022. John's membership of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, saw him contribute the SPR's response to the NICE Guideline on Treatment for Depression which was published in 2022 following changes recommended by the SPR as part of a coalition of organisations including the BACP, UKCP, BPS, Mind and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, expressing scientific concerns about the creation of the guideline.
Before joining the Metanoia Institute, John facilitated the launch of an Integrative Counselling professional training program at Leeds Beckett University and an equivalent course delivered at a partner college in Singapore, including facilitation of teaching and student exchanges. John is an advocate for the role of higher education in advancing social mobility, in particular in pathways for students from non-traditional backgrounds, and at Leeds Beckett took a lead role in the creation and maintenance of scholarships for both clinical training and PhD study.
Peter is Faculty Head for the Faculty of Applied Social and Organisational Sciences at Metanoia and has a long background in therapeutic practice, professional training, supervision and research in the UK and internationally. He is author of a number of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and books and is active both as a researcher and in the development of the profession. Peter chaired the most recent QAA subject benchmarking review for counselling and psychotherapy in 2022 which will be in place for the next 7 years and was a member of the previous review group from 2013. He led the Metanoia team that collaborated with BACP to develop and write the National Curriculum for Counselling for Depression (CfD), (now PCE-CfD) one of the NICE recommended, IAPT compliant, evidence-based choice of treatments for responding to depression, available within the UK, NHS . He was an Expert Reference Group (ERG) member for the development of both, the BACP Competence Framework for Counselling Children and Young People and for Health Education England's National Curriculum for Evidence-Based Counselling for children and young people. Peter was the Clinical Lead for the ESRC funded, ETHOS Study, a randomised controlled trial of school-based counselling published in the Lancet Adolescent in 2022 and is a member of the National Expert Advisory Group for the government's flagship NHS Talking Therapies programme. Peter is external examiner for a number of person-centred and experiential MSc and BA courses, has four young daughters and a step-son.
Helen is a graduate of the Metanoia MSc in Contemporary Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Applications and a UKCP registered psychotherapist and clinical supervisor. She has a busy private practice and her experience is wide-ranging, with particular interest in the provision of person-centred therapy to people who have experienced trauma and abuse and those who have mental health diagnoses. She has managed a therapeutic service working with women survivors of relational abuse and worked extensively with male survivors of sexual violence. She also taught person-centred skills and theory at Sussex Downs College. Her MSc research considered the inherent challenge to clients offered by a person-centred relationship. She is a passionate explorer of the person-centred approach and theory as a living practice, informing all relationships - personal, professional and with the self.
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- Teaching Staff Member
- Humanistic Counsellor
Katrina is a Humanistic Counsellor and graduate of the Metanoia Institute, working in private practice with a range of clients. Alongside counselling she provides corporate wellbeing consultancy and mental health training, and co-facilitates a women's support group.
Her therapy background includes over a decade as a complementary therapist specialising in women's health, and in equine therapy, which she teaches for the Healing Animals Organisation. Katrina offers an embodied approach to both therapy and teaching, and above all values the reparative potential of relationships. Katrina's pre-therapy background includes a semi-professional career in music, and extensive corporate experience in administration and human resources.
Keith is based in Monmouthshire, Wales and works as a counsellor and psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. He originally trained in community theatre and then worked as a teacher, manager and behaviour support worker in secondary education. His particular interests are in integrating theory and practice across and between modalities; from the Humanistic to Psychoanalytic, with a particular focus on working within a relational sensibility.
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- Board Trustee
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Member of the Board of Trustees Are
- Trustee
- Kelvin Jones Is Director of International Strategy at Global University Systems, With a Broad Remit across GUS Institutions.
Until recently he solely represented the University of Law for International student recruitment and partnerships and has over 20 years of cross sector leadership experience. He has been a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute for the last 11 years and is an experienced strategic leader.
Kelvin has assisted thousands of international students in progressing to studying UK qualifications.
He holds an MBA in Strategic Management and Leadership and two other Post Graduate qualifications.
Kelvin is a Board Trustee of The Metanoia Institute, the UK's specialist provider for Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counselling.
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- Teaching Staff Member
- Psychotherapeutic Counsellor UKAHPP
Following on from his first career as an actor, Kieran became a graduate of Metanoia Institute, with a diploma and degree in person centred counselling.
Kieran currently runs a private practice from his home in North London and works as a freelance supervisor, trainer and group facilitator.
He is an accredited psychotherapeutic counsellor with UKAHPP and UKCP registered
He is also a senior accredited counsellor and supervisor with BACP.
Since graduating in 1996, he began working in palliative care, counselling people with HIV/AIDS and then established a bereavement counselling service for Marie Curie Cancer Care. He went on to specialise in addictions and dual diagnosis. Working with various substance misuse organisations.
He has also worked as a consultant, counsellor and group worker for the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force.
He has worked a supervisor for many counselling organisations including; Metropolitan Police, Turning Point and MIND.
He is an assessor and supervisor for the Counselling for Depression programme at the Metanoia Institute.
Kieran holds a BA (Hons) in Counselling, a certificate in Person Centred Supervision and a Diploma in Dramatic Art.
Biography
Laura is a Primary Tutor Diploma Year 2 on the Gestalt psychotherapy training at Metanoia Institute. She qualified as a Gestalt Psychotherapist in 2018 from the Metanoia Institute. She completed her first year of training at the Gestalt Institute in Krakow, Poland. Although her first degree is in Management and Marketing, over the past 18 years she has mainly worked on the frontline for organisations including St Mungo's and Refuge, managing teams supporting vulnerable adults and children in the field of mental health, substance misuse, domestic violence and homelessness.
Laura is a psychotherapist at her private practice in west London and is also commissioned by the Polish Embassy to work therapeutically with parents who undergo child protection court
proceedings. She is an associate at BGPS, where she facilitates reflective practice groups with teams from the social care sector.
Biography
Lucy is a Primary Tutor Diploma Year 2 on the Gestalt psychotherapy training at Metanoia Institute, a role she is absolutely passionate about. She also teaches on the Certificate in Therapeutic Counselling Skills and Studies for the institute and examines for the Gestalt and Humanistic departments. Lucy qualified as a Gestalt psychotherapist in 2015 and has worked as a group facilitator for over 15 years. Before her psychotherapy training Lucy worked for the then London Probation Service, delivering CBT-based psychoeducational groups for people involved in the criminal justice system, and later training staff to deliver groups in prisons and in the community.
Lucy developed and delivers a therapeutic weaving group for a women's centre supporting survivors of sexual violence, and will shortly be involved in research exploring the effectiveness of this intervention for women experiencing post-traumatic stress and anxiety.
Lucy has written blogs and articles for UKCP and occasionally writes book reviews for the Times Literary Supplement. She has a young family and whenever she has a spare moment can be found enjoying making fibre art and textiles, and gardening.
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- Senior Academic Co - Ordinator
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Member of the Board of Trustees Are
- Chartered Accountant and Finance Manager at the Health Foundation
- Trustee and Chair of Audit and Risk Sub - Committee )
Nafeesa is a qualified chartered accountant and Finance Manager at The Health Foundation.
She started her career in medicine, qualifying in 2011 before making a career change to accountancy in 2016.
Nafeesa is also an active volunteer in her religious community and a representative for her local mosque forming links with local organisations to improve the health and wellbeing of the local community as part of Ismaili CIVIC.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Member of the Board of Trustees Are
- Trustee
- Vice - President
Neil Laventure is Vice-President Legal, EMEA & Latam, Haleon PLC. Haleon split from GSK in July 2022 and is now a FTSE 100 listed company.
The work of the Board of Trustees is supported by three specialist sub-committees: the Finance Sub-Committee (FSC), and the Audit, Risk Sub-Committee (ARSC) and the Staffing and Remuneration Sub-Committee (SARSC).
The purpose of the FSC is to assist the Board of Trustees in fulfilling their statutory financial responsibilities and in discharging their duties diligently and efficiently. The purpose of the ARSC is to scrutinise financial controls with regard to internal risk assessment and the performance and objectivity of external auditors whom they shall appoint; also to present audited financial statements to the Annual General Meeting (AGM). The purpose of the SARSC is to oversee and support policies and practice in relation to Human Resources functions and to make proposals to the Board of Trustees for implementation.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Member of the Board of Trustees Are
- Chairman of Board of Trustees )
- Professor
Professor Sally Glen is an academic with extensive experience of strategic leadership as Deputy Vice Chancellor, Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean at a range of universities.
She has published widely in the field of healthcare professional education and continues to supervise mid career health professionals undertaking health related PhDs. Sally has a number of active roles and interests: