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Biographies:
Rosie Burrows is an independent psychotherapist and organizational consultant working primarily in the field of trauma awareness and integration in N. Ireland. She has a private practice with individuals and works with groups and organizations. With Bríd Keenan, she has published and widely disseminated practice research on working with transgenerational trauma in groups, including groups of young people and adults. She has been in a Gestalt supervision group since 1995 and has taken further advanced trainings, including a 3 year training in Holland in Somatic Experiencing, a body based approach to working with trauma (see www.traumahealing.com) She is a mother of two daughters and is committed to supporting people to transform unresolved trauma in order to engage more fully with life.
Patricia Doherty, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA is a psychologist in private practice in Brookline, MA where she works with individuals, couples, and groups. She is a Fellow in the American Group Psychotherapy Association, past President of the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy and current committee member for the Northeast Society for Group Psychotherapy. She is one of the founders of the Northern Ireland Group Psychotherapy Conference and current chair of the 2009 Program committee.
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.
Sara Emerson, LICSW, CGP, FAGPA is in private practice in Cambridge MA working with individual adults and groups. She is trained as a psychoanalyst. She is adjunct faculty teaching group therapy at Boston College and Simmons College Graduate Schools of Social Work. In addition to being a member of the Boston Threshold planning committee she has participated in 10 of the previous 11 conferences in Belfast.
Beatriz Sánchez España has been the Clinical Director, Community Housing and Therapy (CHT) since 2004. She is a clinical psychologist and has a MA in individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Beatriz runs CBT introductory training courses for homeless organizations. Beatriz is a board member of International Society for the Psychological Treatment of the Schizophrenias and other Psychoses (ISPS UK) and of the Association of Therapeutic Communities (ATC). She is also a member of the ATC research group. Beatriz regularly speaks at conferences and has published a number of journal articles and book chapters. Currently she is authoring a paper on the ‘Reduction in Medication Use and Hospitalisation in Rehabilitation Therapeutic Communities for Severe and Enduring Mental Illness’ for the Psychiatric Bulletin.
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 is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist who has spent the last 13 years working in therapeutic communities for people struggling with psychosis and personality disorders as a clinician, supervisor and teacher. He is currently employed both as an NHS psychotherapist working with individuals and groups and as Threshold's Clinical Consultant.
John Gale is CEO of Community Housing and Therapy (CHT) a mental health charity specialising in therapeutic communities. Formerly a Benedictine monk, John taught philosophy. After leaving the priesthood he trained as a psychotherapist and has worked in therapeutic communities for over 20 years. He was CHT’s clinical director before taking up his present post in 1999. John is on the board of the International Society for the Psychological Treatment of the Schizophrenias and other Psychoses (ISPS UK) and of the Association of Therapeutic Communities (ATC). He is a member of the advisory panel of the Community of Communities program at the Centre for Quality Improvement at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. John is a member of the editorial committee of Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana and on the editorial advisory panel of Therapeutic Communities. John regularly speaks at conferences and has contributed to books and published articles in academic journals. He recently edited a volume in the ISPS series entitled Therapeutic Communities for Psychosis published by Routledge. He is particularly interested in the interface between philosophy, psychotherapy and spirituality.
Biggi Hofmann, Dip Couns; Dip Psych (UKCP, BPA); ILTHE, is a psychodrama psychotherapist and has been working in the field of counseling for the past 11 years. She is a workshop leader in the North and South of Ireland and has been working with victims and survivors of the conflict in North Belfast for 7 years. 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.
Frank Liddy has worked in the community care voluntary mental health sector for some twenty-five years. At present he works for Threshold as the project manager of Chikara House, a supported housing therapeutic community in Belfast. Frank was the co-founding Director of the Belfast Mindfulness Centre. As an indigenous Belfast born practitioner he has been at the forefront of developing creative cross community mindfulness based initiatives to communities / groups traumatised by the Northern Ireland troubles. Frank studied mindfulness at the University of Wales and is a qualified integrative humanistic counsellor. Presently Frank teaches mindfulness through the life long learning programme at the Queen’s University of Belfast and has also successfully delivered experiential and practice-based training programmes to mental health and allied professionals working in psychiatry, nursing, social work and the criminal justice system.
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.
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.
Elizabeth (Libby) Shapiro, Ph.D., is the Acting Director of the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies at Massachusetts General Hospital, an advanced training program in psychotherapy for psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers. She is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and has a private practice in Lexington where she sees individuals, couples and groups. Dr. Shapiro has written articles and given talks on diverse topics such as training, group treatment, sibling dynamics, money, referrals, boundaries, and the use of double sessions.
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