Lecturers & tutors
Dr Marie Adams is a UKCP registered Psychotherapist and former journalist with the BBC, now a consulting Psychotherapist to the BBC; training news and documentary staff on trauma and mental health (staff who often witness traumatic events in Britain and abroad.) Research interest in how therapists’ personal lives impact their work with clients. Author: The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist, is published by Routledge.
Dr Sara Alsaraf is a psychiatrist at East London NHS Foundation Trust. She trained as a drama therapist and uses creative arts methods to facilitate individual and group therapy. She is completing a PhD that explores resilience in migrants who have suffered gender-based violence along the migration journey.
Dr Louise Austin has recently completed her PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University for Essex and has an MA in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy from the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education. She has over 30 years of experience in teaching arts-based adult learning and the therapeutic application of the arts. She was Course Leader of the Weekend Level One programme at IATE from 2016 until recently and now is a senior lecturer. She currently works for the Association of Jungian Analysts as experiential group leader and is a senior practitioner with Artgym Academy. Through her doctoral studies she has developed an innovative and collaborative extension of Jung’s method of active imagination. Her methodology has been applied to arts-based experiential learning, reflective practice and collaborative research groups.
Ellie Baker is a UKCP registered Integrative Child Psychotherapist. She is a Lead Trainer for Trauma Informed School UK. Ellie has been a Chair for The Centre for Child Mental Health for over 15 years and regularly presents for CCMH at conferences. An Educational Consultant, Supervisor and Key Note Speaker Ellie is also a Consultant and Trainer in Parenting and Communication Skills. Ellie has worked for over 30 years with children, adolescents and adults across a variety of settings, including Education, The Community, and CAMHS as well as in private practice. Ellie is currently Head of Psychological Health and Well Being for WAVE Multi Academy Trust.
Neela Basu is a UKCP registered Integrative Child Psychotherapist and an artist. She teaches playful approaches to develop observation and creativity. Neela works within a Neurodevelopmental Team for CAMHS and has experience of providing psychotherapy for children with severe trauma, attachment difficulties and disability. Neela’s special area of interest is early intervention for children, and this includes working sensitively and thoughtfully with parents and professionals.
Marianne Behm is Head of the Arts Psychotherapy Service at City and Hackney NHS Trust. She has 12 years’ experience as an Art Psychotherapist working in clinical settings in both adult and adolescent psychiatry. She is also a placement supervisor for a number of Arts Therapies courses. Her specialist areas of expertise include personality and psychotic disorders. Practising artist. She also trained in Winnicottian child development work at The Squiggle Foundation.
Graeme Blench is a qualified music therapist and registered Psychotherapist with over 25 years of clinical and training experience. Specialist areas: Transactional Analysis, Gestalt, Group Dynamics, Psychodynamic Theory and Practice. Graeme teaches music, group dynamics and psychotherapeutic theory and practice.
Paul Cutler is a UKCP-registered Child Psychotherapist. He has worked with children and adults in a range of therapeutic and other settings for over thirty years. Currently, he works as a therapist with children aged 3-19 years old and with families via the Marlborough multi-family therapy model. He is a training supervisor and tutor at IATE, teaching Infant Observation as well as contributing to the Diplomas in Child and Teenage Counselling. He was part of the Children and Young People’s Ethics Committee with the UKCP. He is a trained BASE Babywatching Group Leader and Mentor. Paul has published and presented his work.
Lynne Davis – Course Director for Post Graduate Certificate / Diploma in the Therapeutic Arts (Weekends). A UKCP and HCPC registered Integrative Arts Psychotherapist and Adolescent therapeutic counsellor, Lynne worked in Child and Adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) for over 10 years as a practitioner, service manager and finally leaving from her position as the trauma specialist for children in care. Lynne works in private practice supporting children, teenagers, adults and families. She runs training for professionals and parents and is a clinical supervisor. Lynne specialises in trauma, attachment, and mental health with training in EMDR, Somatic trauma therapy, Sensory Integration, Story Stems, Theraplay, Havening and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. She published a chapter in “Helping adolescents with anger and low self esteem” edited by Dr Margot Sunderland 2009. Prior to training as a psychotherapist, Lynne trained as an Occupational Therapist in South Africa.
Carla Barber Doyle – Course Director for Post Graduate Certificate / Diploma in the Therapeutic Arts and Programme Director for the Diploma in Counselling Teenagers. Having worked in education for over 25 years, she has a wealth of experience in working therapeutically with adolescents, and understands the therapeutic aspects of teaching. She trains staff in schools on how to support young people’s social and emotional development within the educational setting. She qualified as an Integrative Art Psychotherapist at IATE in 2008.
Dom Guard is an Integrative Child Psychotherapist and Supervisor who works with children, adolescents and parents in private practice. He has worked therapeutically in many settings including Family Futures, within schools, with school-excluded children, as an expert witness and won the Teens and Toddlers project. He is the author of ten published storybooks for children.
Paul Harris
Simon Harrison is a UKCP accredited Integrative Psychotherapist (with an MA in Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy) working with adults in private practice in South London since 2001. His background is in drama and he puts creativity and play at the heart of his work as he supports clients to challenge old scripts and broaden their role repertoire. He is also very passionate about the legacy of trauma and working with its impact on the nervous system inspired by the work of Judith Herman, Pat Ogden and Stephen Porges. He resources himself by singing in a choir and growing vegetables on his allotment.
Megan Holland is a UKCP registered Integrative Child Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor. She currently works within the long-term therapies team at Portsmouth CAMHS, leading the child and adolescent psychotherapy and DDP pathway. Megan supervises widely across the service as well as running training for external agencies on trauma and attachment. Prior to her current role, Megan worked as a senior psychotherapist at Family Futures fostering and adoption agency and ran a school-based psychotherapy service in North London. She has also worked as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at King’s College Hospital within the Belgrave Department, primarily working with complex psychiatric presentations as well as children and their families following cancer treatment.
Jessie Holder
Dr Daniel Hughes is an internationally acclaimed Clinical Psychologist with a clinical practice specialising in the treatment of children and their families in Pennsylvania, USA. He has decades of profoundly moving clinical practice with very traumatised children and adolescents and his text Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children has changed the face of psychological treatment with children all over the world. He is the author of several other ground-breaking books in child psychotherapy and child development including Attachment-Focused Parenting and Attachment-Focused Family Therapy. Dan is the originator of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy using the ‘PACE’ method and teaches his attachment focused treatment throughout the USA, Canada, Australia and the UK.
Val Huet is CEO of BAAT and a HCPC Registered Art Therapist and Group Psychotherapist. First degree in sculpture. Worked in Social Services in Adult Mental Health. Head of the Arts Therapies Department at Springfield Hospital for several years working within acute services and community-based resources on a supra-regional Deaf Unit Clinical Practice includes sessional art therapy in a Child and Family clinic and a long term Art Psychotherapy Group. Publications co-editing’ Art Psychotherapy Groups: Between Pictures and Words’, and several academic papers on Art Therapy with deaf Clients, long-term Psychiatric Clients, Women and Group Work.
Vanessa Jones
Dr Katherine Kennet, MRCPsych is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist based in London. She qualified as a medical doctor in 2013 from Imperial College School of Medicine and became a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrist in 2018. She completed her Higher Specialist Training in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at The Tavistock Clinic in 2021. She has worked in a variety of NHS settings and is a consultant in Barnet Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHs), and in her daily practice treats young people with a range of psychiatric disorders including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Depression, Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Eating Disorders, Psychotic symptoms, Suicidality, Tic disorders, and those with attachment difficulties, challenging behaviour, school refusal and a history of trauma. Katherine in currently in a psychodynamic therapy training for children and young people. Katherine is the Royal College of Psychiatrists Associate Registrar for Sustainability, where she co-chairs the Planetary Health and Sustainability Committee and outside of clinical work is an actress and theatre director.
Catherine Kiff is an Integrative Arts Psychotherapist working with adults and CYP. Her experience includes the NHS, Hospice, Education, CAMHS, Addiction, Domestic Abuse, Dementia and Private Practice. She works as an assessor and facilitator on Psychotherapy courses along with working as a supervisor for therapists, allied professionals and organisations. She has additional qualifications in working with bereavement, terminal illness, trauma, eco-psychotherapy and supervision. Her eco-psychotherapy work includes Green Social Prescribing with mental health services. She runs corporate days with a focus on organisational structure, staff wellbeing, and work-related stress. Catherine also co-facilitates social prescribing art therapy groups working on several grant funded projects.
Tsafi Lederman Body Psychotherapist who specialises in Arts and Gestalt. Private psychotherapy supervision practice and trainer for over 20 years. Lecturer and tutor on the Diploma and MA Course in Integrative Arts in Psychotherapy. Co-Director of the MA in Creativity and Imagination course at The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education for many years. Tsafi graduated from art school and studied expressive movement and Butto dance theatre in Japan. She has contributed to chapters and articles in the area of therapeutic relationship in clinical work.
Clair Lewoski is a UKCP registered Integrative Child Psychotherapist and HCPC Registered Dramatherapist, who has been working as a therapist since 1997. She has worked in education, CAMHS and an arts therapies trauma outreach service, where she specialised in work with Looked After Children. She set up a therapy service across 10 primary schools in the North of England, funded by The Children’s Fund which integrated work with mindfulness, massage and arts-based therapies with children, their teachers and families. She currently works in private practice in Cambridge as a psychotherapist and also as a Mentalization Based Family Treatment Practitioner. In addition to work with IATE students, she also teaches on the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapeutic Counselling Masters degree programme at Cambridge University. She has a Masters with Distinction from the Tavistock Clinic and is currently studying for her doctorate at Cambridge University, looking at working with the body in child and adolescent therapy.
Claire Loewe
Jill Mahon
Jo Moon is a UKCP registered Integrative Child Psychotherapist, who graduated from IATE in 2005. Jo began her career as a therapist working in the VAWG sector, before training as a Supervisor and joining the staff on the DipCC at IATE. Jo then worked embedded in schools as a therapist until returning to the VAWG sector, working with children & young people aged 4-24. Jo’s particular areas of interest & research are working with anti-oppressive practice & decolonising therapy, she also has special interests in trauma & ecotherapy. Jo, in another role altogether works as a professional storyteller and enjoys spending time in nearby Epping Forest & on her allotment.
Liz Murray-Bligh is UKCP registered Integrative Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist, (The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education,) and trained Supervisor, (The Gestalt Centre, London). Fifteen years’ experience working in schools using a systemic approach focussing mainly on the client, but also engaging with the family, the school and relevant external agencies. Placement supervisor for IATE students.
Francesca La Nave is an art psychotherapist and Group Analytic psychotherapist lecturing on a number of Art psychotherapy courses. Her MA in Group and Intercultural Therapy focused her interest around the use of dreams and images in Art psychotherapy and the practice of Social Dreaming. She is a trained MBT practitioner, working for the NHS in a specialist service for patients with Complex Needs and Borderline Personality Disorder and manages all Arts Therapies training placements for her Trust. She also has a clinical and supervisory private practice working with both, adults and children. She is a practicing Artist and poet.
Stuart Lane – Course Director for the Certificate in Neurodiversity: Understanding Neurodivergent Diagnosis and Developing Practice. Stuart is a Principal integrative child psychotherapist (UKCP/MBACP) with over 20 years experience working with children, teenagers and families with a particular focus on neurodiversity and diagnosis. In his role as senior mental health lead Stuart has developed a multi-disciplinary mental health and wellbeing team within Moor House School & College to meet the range of child, teenager and family needs. He facilitates training and workshops for parents and professionals focussing on child and adolescent development and mental health, emotional regulation and approaches to support children and teenagers.
Gerry O Riordan is an artist and registered Integrative Arts Psychotherapist who has worked in different settings including the Statutory sector (NHS). He has many years experience of working with people with learning difficulties in both residential as well as day-care provision. His philosophy or approach to working with clients, and training within the field of psychotherapy and personal development, is informed by a Humanistic paradigm that embraces different aspects of the person’s experience of self in relation to body, mind and soul.
Roz Read – Programme Director of the MA Integrative Child Psychotherapy. Roz is a UKCP registered Integrative Child Psychotherapist. With a background working in the arts, she has worked extensively with children and teenagers in multi-cultural inner-city community projects, schools and multidisciplinary teams for over 30 years. For the past 18 years, Roz has worked with adopted, LAC and permanently placed children offering individual therapy to children, family therapy and parenting support. Currently, Roz works at PAC-UK as a child and family psychotherapist, and prior to this worked at Family Futures. Roz is a freelance trainer and clinical supervisor and has a special interest in integrating treatment approaches for developmental trauma, attachment and working with the body and is an accredited Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner.
Tina Read is a UKCP registered Integrative Child Psychotherapist and a documentary film producer who has made films for television. After many years of leading therapy services in schools, Tina now works for CAMHS as a manager.
Anne-Marie Reid is a qualified Integrative Arts Child Counsellor, Systemic Family Psychotherapist, Consultant and Supervisor who trained at IATE, the Chiron Institute, the London Centre for Psychodrama and the Tavistock and Portman Institute. She has over 20 years’ experience working with children, adolescents and families, having worked as a residential social worker, family assessment officer, youth worker and youth arts facilitator specialising in dance. Anne-Marie is trained in a variety of parenting programmes, including Mellow, Strengthening Families Strengthening Communities (SFSC) and Incredible Years. She also held the Programme Director positions at DreamArts (a creative and therapeutic arts outreach charity for children and young people ages 7-25 years old and their families) for 19 years. There she developed art-based programmes and initiated the first out of school hours arts-based therapy service in Westminster. Anne-Marie currently works for Islington CAMHS as a Family therapist. In her private practice – Cocoon Arts Therapy, she offers individual, parent-child, family and couples psychotherapy, and has initiated and managed therapeutic services in schools and charities. She practices and performs African, Caribbean and Contemporary dance, and likes to go to the theatre, watch films and travel.
Beth Rogan is a UKCP registered Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. She has worked with troubled children and teenagers since 2003, initially in a therapeutic children’s home for adolescents and then in social services supporting care leavers, before working for several years in a child and adolescent mental health service run by Mind. Since graduating from IATE, she has worked as a psychotherapist in schools and in the NHS within CAMHS. She currently works in private practice, as well as being a clinical supervisor, tutor and group supervisor.
Elizabeth Ronan is a senior Social Worker. Currently works for the Local Authority as an Independent Reviewing Officer chairing Child Protection Conferences, Looked After Children’s Reviews and Adoption Reviews. Liz also worked for a number of years as part of the therapy team at Family Futures (Adoption Support Agency) undertaking assessments and providing therapeutic packages of support for adopted and fostered children and their families. Prior to this Liz worked in CAMHs developing a service for adopted children and parents experiencing difficulties, conducted risk assessments and worked therapeutically with a range of children and young people experiencing complex and often severe mental health difficulties.
Christina Rousseau
Camilla Sim – Course Director for the Diploma in Child Counselling & Diploma in Child Psychotherapeutic Counselling at IATE. She is a UKCP registered Integrative Child & Adult Psychotherapist and Supervisor. She has over 20 years’ experience working in schools as a psychotherapist. She also works privately offering therapy to children, adolescents and adults and provides parenting and family consultations. She is trained in Attachment Focused EMDR and Focusing – both approaches that are based on the premise that given the right support, the body can naturally heal itself.
Zsuzsa Sipos is a Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Group Analyst. She has decades of clinical experience, having worked several years in a therapeutic community, in the NHS and in Higher Education with both adults and young adults, individually and in groups. Undertook an MSc in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology at the Anna Freud Centre and trained as a Group Analyst at the Institute of Group Analysis (London). Her interest in groups started when as a Psychologist, she participated in a longitudinal research into the efficacy of group psychotherapy. Since then, she has conducted many groups. She has been in private practice as well as worked in different psychotherapeutic organisations such as the Westminster Pastoral Foundation (WPF), the Tavistock Relationships and the IGA (London) where she conducts experiential groups for students who are engaged in training. She also works as a Supervisor there. She has a long-standing interest in the transcultural aspects of group analysis and psychotherapy. In her free time, she enjoys all forms of the arts.
Rachel Sklan
Jude Smit is a UKCP and HCPC registered Psychotherapist/Integrative Arts Psychotherapist, working with groups and individuals in a range of settings, including a hospital, further and higher education and in private practice. She runs psychodynamic and integrative arts-based groups, as well as working with individuals experiencing trauma, PTSD and CPTSD and is a mental health advisor in Further Education. She has an ongoing interest and investment in research and has been involved in various research projects focused on mental health over the last 15 years, within the education and health sectors. She has presented at several conferences and is currently undertaking Psychology PhD research, focusing on lived experiences of attempted suicide in students.
Vicki Smith – Programme Director for the MA Integrative Arts Psychotherapy. Vicki is a UKCP and HCPC Integrative arts psychotherapist with extensive experience working in forensic services (both in HMPPS and the NHS), acute mental health services and specialist complex trauma services.
Karen Stallard is a registered Psychotherapist with UKCP, registered Counsellor with BACP and registered Art Therapist with HCPC. She trained at The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education where she gained a Masters in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy. Her private practice is called Feeling Found, which is based in Highbury and Islington where she works mainly with adults. Karen is also on the steering group for a bi-annual conference called ‘Continuing the Journey’, which provides CPD to therapists and spiritual leaders. More recently she has been teaching Art therapy to degree level students at Goldsmiths University and is a trainer and supervisor for Trauma Informed Schools UK as well as being the course director for the Child Certificate in Counselling Skills at The institute for Arts in Therapy and Education. Karen is also the inventor and designer of 20 Dreams, a card game which helps develop creativity and emotional literacy as well as being great fun to play!
Lucy Steggals
Louise Sunderland is an HCPC and UKCP registered Integrative Arts Psychotherapist, educator, and clinical supervisor. She works with adults in private practice and previously worked in NHS and charitable sector settings. She teaches on arts psychotherapy and psychotherapy trainings at IATE and other institutions. Alongside her clinical and teaching work, Louise facilitates creative workshops and reflective spaces for community groups and organisations, supporting wellbeing, connection, and resilience. She is also a peer reviewer for the International Journal of Art Therapy.
Dr Margot Sunderland is Director of Education and Training at The Centre for Child Mental Health London, Honorary Visiting Fellow at London Metropolitan University and Child Psychotherapist with over twenty years’ experience of working with children and families. Margot trained initially in Child Psychotherapy with John Hood Williams (former Principal – Institute of Child Psychology – Lowenfeld training). For many years, she worked as a child psychotherapist in children’s homes and adolescent units alongside her private practice. She is the author of over twenty books in the field of child mental health, which collectively have been translated into eighteen languages and published in twenty-four countries. Her internationally acclaimed book, “The Science of Parenting” (Dorling Kindersley), won First Prize in the British Medical Association Medical Book awards 2007 Popular Medicine section. (Paperback version entitled “What Every Parent Needs to Know”). The book, endorsed by one of the world’s leading affective neuroscientists, Professor Jaak Panksepp, is the result of ten years research on the long-term effects of adult-child interaction on the developing brain. Dr Sunderland has two doctorates, one in child psychotherapy, thesis entitled “The Application of Art and Science to the Psychological Treatment of Children.” Margot was also a member of the Early Years Commission, Centre for Social Justice, Westminster and co-author of the cross-party advisory report “The Next Generation” (early years intervention). She is founder of the “Helping Where it Hurts” programme, which offers free arts therapy to troubled children in Islington Primary schools. She co-directed the Gulbenkian funded research study, which in liaison with University of Cambridge School of Education, measured outcomes for this intervention. She has been featured on TV and radio on several occasions, as a child and parenting expert.
Professor Tracey Cockerton Tattersall BSc, PGCert, MSc, MA, PhD, AFBPsS, C.Psychol (Occ), PFHEA, AFSEDA, CMI, UKCP (Retired) is a qualified, experienced and retired UKCP Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Counsellor. She has also practised as a chartered occupational psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS), registered with the HCPC. Tracey is currently the Director of Learning and Teaching at Ravensbourne University London. She has held a number of senior positions at strategic level. Tracey’s interest in working as an integrative child psychotherapist led to a symposium at the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) conference at Lausanne University in Switzerland in 2022 and two published peer-reviewed papers in 2023 and 2025. Her PhD is in the psychology of child development and her research interests have included children’s socio-cognitive development experiences at school, children’s memory for stressful events, as well as stress at work and profiling individual differences in personality, emotional intelligence, cognitive abilities and self-efficacy for enhancing performance. She is currently the External Examiner for the Birmingham City University MA Counselling for Children and Young People. Her current research interests include amongst others, ethical issues and risks of AI and Child Psychotherapy and understanding student mental health to enhance learning from further to higher education.
Walatta Trew
Claire Louise Vaculik (née Leyland) trained as an art therapist and gestalt psychotherapist and worked with children, young people and adults in health settings, schools, the voluntary/ community sector and higher education for nearly 25 years. She has provided supervision for students, qualified arts therapists, play therapists and counsellors. Claire Louise is a member of the Academic Board at IATE, having served as Programme Director of the MA in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy for over a decade. She was external examiner for two UK-based art therapy trainings, a Lead Assessor for UKCP, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Art Therapy, and a past chair of the British Association of Art Therapists. Claire Louise co-edited ‘Integrative Arts Psychotherapy’ (2022) and the ‘Routledge International Handbook of Art Therapy Practice’ (2025). She provides consultancy abroad regarding the therapeutic use of the arts and therapeutic arts clinical training programmes. Her longstanding interests include co-production, supervision, advanced practice, responsible leadership, governance, and designing creative sustainable systems that enable organisations in the arts, education, and health sectors to thrive.
Simi Warah is UKCP/HCPC registered Integrative Arts Psychotherapist currently working as the Therapy Services Manager at Priory Woking Hospital. Simi oversees the psychiatric therapy and the addiction treatment teams, and is a designated safeguarding lead.
Simi has worked extensively with addiction and complex/developmental trauma, including with survivors of childhood abuse and sexual violence. Simi has spent over 25 years working/managing in various health and social care settings, including NHS, prisons, and specialist community addiction (charity sector) services. Simi completed her MA with IATE in 2021.
Simi is also an elected Council Member of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT).
Fiona Williams
Joan Woddis worked as an art teacher/therapist in London for many years. She was a full-time lecturer on the postgraduate course in art therapy at University of London Goldsmith’s College, a practicing group-analytic psychotherapist, and Chairperson of the British Association of Art Therapists.
Guest tutors & lecturers
Borry Jarju
Dr Valerie Sinason is a poet, writer, child and adult psychotherapist, and adult psychoanalyst. She has written and edited over fifteen books and one hundred and eighty papers. After working at the Tavistock Clinic for twenty years, she left to start a Clinic for Dissociative Studies, from which she retired two years ago. She won a lifetime achievement award from the ISSTD and is on their Board. She is also President of the Institute for Psychotherapy and Disability.
Nicole Worrica
Tim Wright was editor of IJAT: Inscape from 2008 to 2014 and is currently chair of BAAT. He is Head of Arts Therapies for non-forensic services in West London Mental Health Trust, where he is developing an at therapy psycho-education programme.