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Biographies:
Claire S. Bacha, Ph.D. , Mem IGA is a psychotherapist and group analyst in private practice in Manchester UK. She has also worked in both statutory and voluntary organisations. Claire is a Training Member of the North West Institute of Dynamic Psychotherapy and a Training Analyst for the Institute of Group Analysis. At present, Claire is working on the IGA Qualifying Course Training in Manchester. She has published in Group Analysis and in Psychodynamic Practice.
Bonnie Buchele, Ph.D., is the Director of the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute, which is affiliated with the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is a past President and Distinguished Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. Her publications including articles, book chapters and books reflect interest in subjects ranging from trauma to group psychotherapy to psychoanalysis. During the thirty-year period when she worked at the Menninger Clinic, she was Director of the Group Psychotherapy Service and Program Director of the Trauma Recovery Unit. She was a consultant to a number of group therapists in New York City and Washington, D.C., in their work treating survivors of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Currently she is in private practice in Kansas City, Missouri.
Eleanor Counselman, Ed.D., is an Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry (Psychology) at Harvard Medical School and is on the faculty of the Center for Group Psychotherapy at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. She has been on the faculty of both the Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy (NSGP) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) for many years and has served on the Board of Directors of both organizations. She has published over a dozen articles in psychotherapy journals and has an individual, couple and group psychotherapy practice in Belmont, MA.
MaryAnn Dubner, Ph.D., CGP, is a clinical psychologist with over thirty-five years of experience leading and facilitating groups, both in her private practice and as faculty member of the National Group Psychotherapy Institute of the Washington School of Psychiatry in Washington, D.C., where she is a member of the Large Group Team. She is a co-founder of the symposium “The Conversation between the Arts and Psychotherapy”. Her abiding clinical interest is the exploration of the emergence of disturbing affects within the group and how the therapist’s and the group’s process contain and work them through. Recently she is using her experience to consult with those working in underserved communities.
E. Belle Evans, Ph.D., FAGPA, Professor at Rhode Island
College, Providence, RI, Private Practice. Dr.
Evans has been treating survivors of various kinds of
trauma for the past forty years in her roles as a
clinical social worker, psychologist and nurse.
She is a Professor at Rhode Island College and teaches
courses on Group Therapy and on the Treatment of Trauma.
Dr. Evans is in private practice where she specializes
in the treatment of trauma survivors.
Chris Fry, Dip. S.W., MSc, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist who has spent the last ten years working in therapeutic communities for people struggling with psychosis and attachment/personality disorders. Currently he is Threshold's Clinical Consultant and Head of Training and spends most of his time supervising staff and teaching about the application of psychoanalytic ideas to Therapeutic Community practice.
Biggi Hofmann, Dip.Couns., Dip.Psych. ILTHE., psychodrama psychotherapist (UKCP) has been working in the field of counseling for the past ten years. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and workshop leader in Ireland, North and South. For the last six years she has been working with victims and survivors of the Conflict in North Belfast. Her clinical interest includes how creativity can contribute in the process of change and healing in trauma. bisparkle@tiscali.co.uk
Raman Kapur, Ph.D. is CEO and Consultant Clinical Psychologist of the mental health charity Threshold. He has worked extensively with groups in in-patient and out-patient settings and has published clinical and research papers in this area of clinical practice.
David Kennard is a clinical psychologist and group analyst with forty years experience in adult mental health including severe mental illness, high security, and psychotherapy services. He has had a long involvement in the development of therapeutic communities in the UK and has published widely in the field, including An Introduction to Therapeutic Communities (1983) and A Workbook of Group Analytic interventions (1993). He was editor of the journal Therapeutic Communities from 1992-8. From 1992-2004 he was Head of Psychology at The Retreat, the pioneering Quaker hospital in York. Since 20004 he has been chair of the UK Network of ISPS (the International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and other psychoses). In 2007 he co-edited Experiences of Mental Health In-patient Care and has just completed a book on Staff Support Groups in the Helping Professions.
Hallie Lovett, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in Washington , D.C. where her practice involves individual, couple and group psychotherapy as well as psychotherapy supervision. A Certified Group Psychotherapist, she is on the faculty of the Psychology Department of The George Washington University and a founding member of
The Conversation Between the Arts and Psychotherapy , a biennial symposium exploring the ground common to psychotherapy and the creative arts.
Her clinical interests include the cotherapy relationship, the development of voice in women and non-maternal creativity.
Orla Mckeagney is a Group Psychodrama Psychotherapist. She has been directing theatre in community and performance settings for 15 years. Orla is Director and Founder of the
Playback Theatre, Belfast and teaches Playback courses throughout N. Ireland. The opening mission statement of playback theatre, which has branches throughout the world, is to
Encourage and foster individual human rights and community dialogue through personal improvisational theatre by facilitating the narration of diverse opinions, recollections and stories; listening; empathy; vitality; and
hope. http://www.playbackschool.org/uk.htm
Cecil A. Rice, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, spent most of the first thirty years of his life in Northern Ireland before moving to the States. He is a co-founder and President of the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy (www.bostoninstitute.org), a past President of the Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy and is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. He is a co-founder of the Boston-Threshold Group (http://northernirelandconference.home.comcast.net/). He has a private practice in group, individual and marital psychotherapy, in Needham, Massachusetts, USA. and has published widely on group psychotherapy including papers examining the after effect of civil war on group therapy practice in Northern Ireland. He is co-editing a book: Leadership in a Changing World: Relational Perspectives on Groups and Their Leaders that is due out in the fall..
Kathy Hubbs Ulman, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, is an Assistant Professor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Clinical Associate in Psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is also the Director of the Center for Group Psychotherapy at Massachusetts General Hospital where she oversees all group therapy training for psychiatry and psychology trainees at MGH. She is a Past President of the Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy and Chair of the Disaster Response Outreach Task Force. She also is Treasurer of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. Dr. Ulman has led a number of training groups for group psychotherapists in the Boston Area. She also leads groups for medically ill patients at a primary care practice at Massachusetts General Hospital. | 
