COMMUNITY PSYCHOTHERAPY NETWORK - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• BPC Registered Psychodynamic Counsellor, MBACP

I have diverse experience of working in counselling and therapeutic settings with people and different organisations.I have worked in NHS secondary care and at the Community Psychotherapy Network, where I have gained experience with a range of psychological disturbances.

Job Titles:

• Head of Support Services
• Owner of "Type

Betti is the owner of "Type etc." which successfully support third sector health care providers with all over the United Kingdom. She and her team try to carry out the impossible job of looking after our diaries and keep our accounts and invoices organised.

Dr Junor Sheppard is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist working in the NHS and in private practice. He is passionate about psychoanalysis' potential to respond to how issues of race, culture and diversity can be thought of in psychoanalytic treatment. His Ph.D. on the investigation of the transference in cross-cultural psychoanalytic psychotherapy is an example of this, as it explores the transference relationship's usefulness in tending to the effect on the patient's self from the social, political and religious contexts they inhabit. Dr Sean Junor-Sheppard remains passionate about the role that social work has in ensuring that LAC and adopted children previous traumas and abuses are tended to. Having trained as a social worker himself, he has worked to ensure that the supervision, consultation and training he currently offers Social workers, teachers and foster carers reflects both his experience as a Social worker and his clinical experience as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. Dr Sean Junor-Sheppard is interested in supporting professionals in their therapeutic work with children and families. His role as an occasional lecturer at the Tavistock and Portman clinic is on helping the academic and professional development of these professionals. His interest in supporting professionals in this way was undoubtedly informed by his own experiences of being supervised by three Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists whilst he was a Social worker. These experiences had a significant bearing on his decision to train as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist.

Individual Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Group Analyst. He is also a clinical supervisor with over 18 years of experience. Dr Stevenson is currently offering face to face and online therapy sessions. Stuart has worked extensively with a wide range of clients who suffer from depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, sexual dysfunction, eating problems and substance misuse. He has a special interest in working with trauma and with people who suffer from the impact of racism, homophobia and structural oppression.

Ivor McKay is a psychotherapist working one-to-one with individuals and within therapy groups at Community Psychotherapy Network and within the NHS. His counselling background includes practicing within the charity sector and a wide range of private and public organisations, from first to third sector settings. His experience as a therapist have granted Ivor with an interest to work with individuals who may be experiencing addiction, racial trauma and personality problems.

Julia offers individual and group therapy. She has experience in working in the NHS and with third sector organisations, where her particular focus has been on migration and belonging, and the question of where or what is ‘home'. ​ She has an academic background in literature and the history of ideas and also teaches at the Centre of Psychoanalysis, Department of Psychology, Middlesex University, where her research has focused on social violence, trauma and the histories and politics of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. ​ She has an extensive experience in working with people from a wide range of cultural backgrounds and sees the key aspect of the therapeutic relationship as one that enables the client to become truly themselves.

Rebecca has gained experience within a variety ofprivate and public healthcare sectors, such as Community Mental Health, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Forensic Mental Health, Neuro-rehabilitation, Paediatric care with Children and Adolescents. She has also and also within other sectors of Women's Health and Empowerment, Alternative Therapy modalities and Expressive Art Therapy. Rebecca began her therapeutic practice as an Occupational Therapist in Wales, and had later lived and worked in Hong Kong before moving to London to further her studies in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Over the years, Rebecca has worked individually with clients, while also planning and holding group therapy sessions with children, adolescents and adults in long term and short term care. She has been inspired to be part of the journeys people take toward a deeper understanding of themselves, their interpersonal relationships and the world around them. Her experiences have since ignited a personal passion to bridge the gap between psychotherapy and other practices of wellbeing, such as art, ayurveda, meditation and permaculture, all of which inspire her practice as a therapist.

Sarah Clark is an experienced and passionate psychotherapist who has worked with children, adolescents, and adults in multiple NHS settings, such as forensic and general in-patient units for the majority of her career. Alongside this, she has practiced within the community, serving out-patient units in North London.