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Teaching and support staff

Our sessional teaching staff bring an impressive breadth of knowledge and experience to their teaching.

Amanda Baker

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Ann Heyno

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy

Anna Fitzgerald

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents

Anne Attwood

  • BSc Human Biology, Dip Psychodynamic Counselling - Adults, Birkbeck Advanced Counselling course in Organisational Dynamics, Post-Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice,  General and Psychiatric Nurse, Member: BACP (Accredited); NMC.
  • Current work: Tutor and Academic Adviser for Birkbeck 'Introduction to Counselling' courses; Counsellor in Primary Care; External consultant to NHS forensic psychiatric nursing staff.
  • Birkbeck Distinguished Sessional Lecturer Award 2011/12.

Anne Marie Reilly

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy

Annie Hoile

  • RGN MSc Psychodynamic Counselling MSc Group Analysis, Group Analyst UKCP accredited.

Asuncion Lopez

  • Counselling and Counselling Skills

Bridget Townsend

  • Introduction to Counselling

Catherine Bray

  • MSc MBACP (Accredited)
  • Psychodynamic counsellor in primary care and private practice, Honorary Group Psychotherapist Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Clea McEnery-west

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy

Clive Carswell

  • RGN and Dip Couns from Birkbeck College, BACP and AUCC member.
  • Counsellor, Supervisor, Group Facilitator in Private Practice.

Colin Murphy

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy

David Richards

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy

Diana Yeh

  • Academic Advisor and Lecturer, MA Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity
  • Sociological Review Fellow, Keele University.
  • Research interests: race/ethnicity, migration, social inequalities, art, culture, diaspora, youth, ethnography.

Dr Melissa Fernandez

  • Lecturer in 'A Postcolonial Imagination' MA Culture Diaspora Ethnicity.
  • Research interests:gendered and raced representations; processes of urban ‘othering’; housing; critical geographies of home and architecture; post-colonialism; nationalist discourse.

Eleni Yfanti

  • Introduction to Counselling

Elizabeth Martindale

  • Dip. Education (Cambridge ), Dip. Counselling, Member BACP, manager Citizens Advice, Chair Family Support Group, Trainer, Consultant, Supervisor.

Gabriella Braun

  • Group Relations Conference

Gail Bennett

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Giles Godwin

  • MSC Psychodynamic Counselling; Psychotherapist working in Department of Psychotherapy and Art Psychotherapy. South Essex partnership university NHS Foundation Trust.

Giovanna Iannaco

  • MA Translation Studies, MSc Psychodynamic Counselling
  • Currently working in an academic setting, counselling members of staff.

Hilary Dodson

  • BSc (hons), M.Sc. Psychodynamic counselling, Ph.D., MBACP, UKCP (Guild)
  • Registered psychoanalytic therapist in private practice.

Jackie Moon

  • B.Prim. Ed (UCT), MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling (Birkbeck, University of London), MBACP
  • Psychodynamic Psychotherapist working in the NHS.

Jan Baker

  • Jan Baker, Dip. Psychotherapy, M.A. Psychoanalytic Studies. M.A Organizational Consultancy.
  • Tutor, MSc courses in Counselling and Psychotherapy; organizational consultant with a special interest in group relations;  supervisor and psychotherapist in private practice. 

Jeannie Bruce

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Judith Woodward

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy

Keith Kahn Harris

  • Honorary Research Fellow
  • Research Interests: Sociology of religion, Popular music, Jewish studies, ethnicity/race, dialogue, transgression, youth culture.

Liz Omand

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy

Louise Phillips

  • PGCE, MA, M. psych.psych. Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist working in the NHS and Voluntary sector.

Lyn French

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents

Madeleine Barnett

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Mary Burke

  • B.Soc.Studies, MSC, BACP Accredited.
  • Counsellor working in NHS primary care and in private practice.

Melinda Meigs

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Organisational Dynamics.

Nicola Godwin

  • Introduction to counselling.

Nina Tebartz

  • BA (Hons), MSc Psychodynamic Counselling; Psychotherapist working in International Schools and Counselling Agency.

Peter Mangan

  • Associate Lecturer on MSc Education, Power and Social Change.  Relevant interests are - education in deeply divided societies; identity and statelessness; informal education in violent social contexts.
  • PhD (London), MA (London), MA (Dublin), BA (Lancaster), PGCE, Dip Ed.

Rachael Gould

  • BA, MA, PGDip Psychotherapeutic Counselling (University of Sussex), PG Dip Psychoanalytic Observational Studies (Tavistock Centre), Senior Accredited Counsellor/ Psychotherapist BACP. Senior/Specialist Counsellor in Learning Disabilities.

Rebekah Nulsen

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Samantha Morgan

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy

Sandra Adejei-Wilson

  • Counselling and Counselling Skills

Sarah Ellard

  • Senior Cognitive Behaviour Therapist in the NHS,
  • Psychodynamic counsellor
  • Academic Advisor for the Foundation Degree in Short-term Counselling and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

Serena Heller

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy

Shima Bhunjun

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Stephen Callus

  • BTh, Diploma of the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy, Diploma in supervision, UKCP Registered Psychotherapist, BACP member
  • In private practice as an integrally-informed psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer.

Stewart Beever

  • Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy

Sukhwant Dhaliwal

  • Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity

Susan Dunn

  • Education, Policy and Social Change

Teresa Johnston

  • Introduction to Counselling

Thomas Zacharias

  • Dissertation Workshop Lecturer: MA Culture Diaspora, Ethnicity
  • Research interests: 'Race' and racism; identity, representation and nationalism; German political discourse.

Yael Witkon

  • BA(Hons), MA, Mpsych Psych, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist working in the NHS and private practice.