Centre for Psycho-Social Studies

Professional Learning Community

Membership

Name:                             
John Diamond
Occupation:                    
CEO of the Mulberry Bush Organisation
Organisation:                            
Mulberry Bush School, Standlake, Oxon.
Qualifications/affiliations:         
MA Therapeutic Child Care; MA Consultation and the Organisation psychoanalytic approaches
Profile:                            
I am currently CEO of the Mulberry Bush Organisation.  During my career in the therapeutic community I have worked in a variety of management roles.  My interest is in working in groups, especially in the development of reflective spaces for staff who find themselves working in pressured and turbulent environments, I have been involved in training and consultation with staff reams in the private, public and voluntary sectors. I have published papers in several books and journals and am especially interested in how “boundary management” can connect the inner and outer worlds of organisations and influence working relationships, group processes and the primary task.

Name:                             
Jane Mellett
Occupation:                    
Psychotherapist
Organisation:                            
Private Practice – Colerne, Chippenham, Wilts; Tel. 01225 742163
Also Batheaston Clinic, 207 London Road East, Batheaston, BA1 7NB
Qualifications/affiliations:         
BSc.; CQSW; Post Graduate Diploma in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (UKPC registered); Associate of the College of Healing; Affiliate of AHPP (UK); Professional Member of Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling
Profile:                            
I am a Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapist in private practice in Bath and North Wiltshire area. In addition I have completed a two-year training course in holistic healing that incorporates body work and spiritual practice with psychotherapeutic understanding. I work as a member of a counselling and psychotherapy co-operative and am also Chair of the Trustees of my training organisation, Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling (BCPC). I am currently writing about the process of integrating healing and psychotherapy and its implications for my way of being with clients as a psychotherapist.

Name:                             
Tammy Ratoff                  
Occupation:                    
Self-employed psychoanalytic psychotherapist and organisational consultant; Visiting Lecturer Tavistock Clinic and Dio Liverpool
Organisation:                            
Private Practice – Bridgnorth, Shropshire; Tel. 01746 768675
Qualifications/affiliations:         
BA (Hons) Interdisciplinary Human Studies, University of Bradford; CQSW Dip Applied Social Studies, University of Southampton; Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training, London Centre for Psychotherapy; MA Consultation and the Organisation – Psychoanalytic Approaches, Tavistock Centre
Member, Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the NHS (APP); Member, London centre for Psychotherapy (LCP); Registrant of British Psychoanalytic Council (BCP); Associate, Organisation Promoting Understanding of Society (OPUS)
Profile:                            
Tammy trained as a psychiatric social worker then was based at Claybury Hospital in North East London for many years.  Now she is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, organisational consultant and trainer.  She is registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council having qualified with the London Centre for Psychotherapy in 1993 and the Tavistock Centre in 1998 and has a private practice in Bridgenorth, Shropshire, where she works with individuals, couples and groups. She is interested in group relations and attended the Leicester Conference in 2003. For the last few years she has been teaching in Liverpool on the MA, “Consultation and the Organisation – Psychoanalytic Approaches”, run by the Tavistock Centre. She is keen to promote and develop regional initiatives based on this model and is currently running a number of programmes in the Midlands. Tammy works with local organisations as an independent organisational consultant, offering role consultation and input to staff teams in managing increased complexity and the impact of turbulence in the workplace. She is interested in exploring the impact of the unconscious in its many guises in both the individual, the group, the organisation and society as a whole.  Tammy is a member of OPUS and has run a number of study days/Listening Posts in Birmingham since 2003 exploring societal dynamics.  Recently she has become interested in exploring Social Dreaming as a tool for applying psychoanalytic thinking to a wider constituency.

Name:                             
Cate Reidy
Occupation:                    
Clinical Supervisor and Psychotherapist in Private Practice
Organisation:                            
Salvation Army Homeless Hostel, Bristol
Qualifications/affiliations:         
Diploma in Psychoanalytic Psychology, London, Birkbeck; MA Psychoanalytic Studies, London, Goldsmiths; Certificate in Post Trauma Stress and Critical Incident Debriefing, University of Bristol; Certificate Introductory Course in Theory and Practice of Group Analysis, Group Analytic Network (West), Bristol; Diploma, Association of Physical and Natural Therapists; Currently studying for a PhD in Group Processes and Intercultural Therapy at London, Goldsmiths. 
Profile:                            
Cate Reidy is a Clinical Supervisor, working within addiction and homelessness.  She is based in a large Bristol hostel, supervising staff in their individual and group work with homeless men, and with women who have worked in the sex industry.  She also works with individuals in private practice, approaching dialogue by means of dream interpretation, written narrative and art and is sensitive to the frequent relevance of trans-generational influences on the unconscious of the individual and their family background. Cate has a specialised study and research focus into the opsychodynamics applying to surgical experiences, performed when general anaesthesia has been administered, and the mental, emotional and bodily consequences for the psyche.  Interest in the varying strands of this subject , and to which also includes a further interest in “facial differences” studies, stems from her many experiences of facial surgery in the early part of her life. She is currently researching this subject for a PhD in Group Processes and Intercultural Therapy at Goldsmiths College. Her studies consider both the impact of major surgery upon the patient, as well as following the consequences and unconscious processes for those involved in carting for them – loved ones, family and carers – addressing unconscious and telepathic communication within the family system. Cate has had a number of articles published in professional and academic journals.

Name:                             
Jacqueline Mary Sirota
Occupation:                    
Psychodynamic Counsellor and Organisational Consultant in private practice
Organisation:                            
 N/A
Qualifications/affiliations:         
MSc Group Relations and Society, the psychodynamics of groups and organisations: UWE
BACP UKRC Senior Registered Practitioner
Associate member OPUS
Member FIIS IFSI: International Forum for Social Innovation, Paris, France (previously member of Orientation Committee)
Member GReNWE (Group Relations West of England
Member of the Bridge Foundation for Psychotherapy and the Arts (formerly chair of Consultancy group)
Profile:                            
Jacqueline Sirota is an organisational consultant working from the perspective of systems psychodynamics. She works in private practice and for Employee Assistance .