Biographies of Workshop Leaders and Supervisors

 Shoshi Asheri is training director and supervisor at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy and a visiting tutor in other psychotherapeutic organisations in the UK and Israel.  She has a particular interest in developing a therapeutic practice which takes into account relational psychoanalytic thinking and contemporary understanding of the relationship between body and mind specifically when working with trauma and dissociation. She is a founding member of the Relational School. She has a private practice in London where she works with individuals and couples.

Aaron Balick PhD, is a lecturer in psychoanalytic studies at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex and a UKCP registered integrative psychotherapist working in London.  Aaron also works as a mental health writer and media contributor on psychological issues.  He has a special interest in gender, sexual identity, and relational theory/practice and has written several book chapters and articles on this theme; he is a founding member of The Relational School UK and a member of IARPP.

Susan Cowan-Jenssen is a UKCP registered integrative psychotherapist working in both private practice and the NHS. She is an EMDR Consultant specialising in post-traumatic stress and is a founder member of the Relational School. She has over 25 years' experience of working with individuals and groups both here in the UK and in Scandinavia. She has written articles for journals, magazines and books and she currently writes for the website of Psychologies magazine.

Maria C. Gilbert is a UKCP registered Integrative Psychotherapist, a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and a BACP accredited supervisor, who is currently joint head of department of the Integrative Psychotherapy, Integrative Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy, Coaching Psychology and Supervision Department at Metanoia Institute. She has co-authored two books, on supervision and integrative psychotherapy with Ken Evans, and more recently a manual for supervisees with Michael Carroll.

Jane Haberlin trained with Arbours as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and has worked at The Arbours Crisis Centre and The Women's Therapy Centre.  She is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and a founder member of The Relational School in London. She currently works as a therapist and supervisor in private practice.  

Pam Kleinot is a psychoanalaytic psychotherapist working with individuals and groups at St Bartholomews Hospital, London. She previously worked at the Women's Therapy Centre and HMP Holloway. She trained with the Arbours Association, Institute of Group Analysis as well as doing a diploma in forensic psychotherapy at the Portman Clinic.

Marsha Nodelman is an Integrative and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist/Supervisor (BPC registered) and an EMDR practitioner.  She is a founder member of the Relational School and convenor of the Learning Community.  Areas of particular clinical interest and writing include: birth trauma and prenatal states of mind/body; psychosomatic disturbance; therapeutic enactment and impasse, EMDR and post-traumatic stress.  She has 25 years clinical experience working with individuals, couples and groups in London and Vienna.  In addition to clinical work she has taught relational concepts at several training organisations.

Susie Orbach has had a long standing interest in the body. Her latest book Bodies is published in January 2009. She is co-founder of The Women's Therapy Centre in London, a visiting scholar at the New School of Social Research where she co-leads a group on Body and Attachment. She is convenor of www.any-body.org <http://www.any-body.org>  and has been involved with the founding of the Relational grouping in the UK.

Tom Ryan is the Director of the Arbours Association.  He is also a
psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice.  In addition to his
psychotherapy practice, he has over 35 years experience of training,
teaching and supervision.  He has published articles on the
effectiveness of therapeutic communities as well as papers on gender and sexuality.  He is currently researching the relationship between masculinity and the construction of 'perverse' sexual fantasies.  


Andrew Samuels is a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology, a Board Member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis, and an Honorary Fellow of UKCP. He is Professor of Analytical Psychology at Essex and holds visiting chairs at Goldsmiths, Roehampton and New York Universities. Former holder of the award for distinguished services of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education. He has supervised for many psychoanalytic, Jungian, integrative and humanistic trainings as well as privately. He is particularly interested in how questions of difference (gender, sexual orientation, ethnic, socioeconomic) can be addressed in therapy and analysis, as well as in supervision. Andrew believes in 'the power of the group' and in the exploration of parallel process in supervision. Contact details: andrew@andrewsamuels.net    020 7272 1292

Diana Shmukler PhD, TSTA, (ITAA), UKCP Registered Psychotherapist. Diana has been a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist since 1981 and a TSTA since 1989 years.  She is trained is psychodynamic and humanistic approaches.  Her particular interests are post traumatic stress, couples work, integrated therapy with adults, and training and supervision in many areas.  She is a visiting Professor of Psychotherapy at Middlesex and Utrecht Universities and has worked nationally and internationally as a trainer. She has published widely in the field of psychology and psychotherapy. Currently she is in private practice in London.

Judy Yellin trained at CAPP. She works as a psychotherapist in private practice and is a member of the teaching staff on the CAPP psychotherapy training. She frequently teaches attachment theory and relational psychotherapy in other psychotherapy training organisations. She also has a legal background and, prior to training as a therapist, specialised as a solicitor in family law and public law in relation to child protection.  Judy has a particular interest in questions of attachment, sexuality and gender, and in working with lesbians, gay men and transgendered clients from a relational perspective. She is an associate of Pink Therapy, an organisation offering affirmative psychotherapy to sexual minority clients, as well as training for psychotherapists in working effectively with the LGBT communities. She is a founder member of the Relational School, and a member of its Steering Committee.