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Lynne Kaye is a counsellor and psychosexual psychotherapist and is accredited with the Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners (AHPP). She has maintained a clinical practice in North London for the past 15 years and works with individuals and couples. Lynne has spent many years researching and working with survivors of child sexual abuse and has formulated and facilitated psycho-educational workshops and training on the subject in England and overseas. Lynne is the Training Co-ordinator and one of the principal tutors on the Certificate in Counselling and is a group and individual supervisor on the Diploma and Advanced Diploma. She has co-facilitated on the Diploma training in working with addictions as well as the International Training Programme. Lynne has recently been instrumental in setting up the first counselling training in Pakistan.

Jenny Sandelson is a British Association for Sexual and Relationship Therapy (BASRT) accredited and United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) registered psychosexual psychotherapist. She has worked in the NHS for many years, and currently manages a psychotherapy clinic at the Royal London Hospital. She has supervised for the Post-Graduate training at the Whittington Hospital, and currently supervises Consultants, Doctors, Nurses, Counsellors and Psychotherapists. She is an Assessor on the BASRT Accreditation board. Jenny is the Training Co-ordinator and Core Tutor for the Diploma in Counselling as well as the Training Co-ordinator for the Northern Ireland accredited Advanced Diploma course. She is currently a member of the Training and Learning Forum with the BACP.

CPPD is proud of its people and so we've put together individual profiles of some of them. The following is an interactive list, so please click on the person's name to go to their profile. Alternatively, you can scroll down the page.

Suhith Shivanath

Suhith is a BACP Accredited Counsellor and UKCP Registered Psychotherapist. She has trained extensively in TA, has an MSc in Psychotherapy and is a core tutor on the CPPD Advanced Diploma course. She works with individuals, couples and groups and is also registered as a trainer and supervisor in counselling and psychotherapy.

She has helped people presenting with a range of issues, for example, a sense of not belonging anywhere, depression, sexuality, panic attacks, anxiety, stress, relationship difficulties, bereavement, cross-cultural issues, bullying at work, career decisions and many others. Her client group is typical of London – a wide range of people from different backgrounds, different cultures, races and lifestyles.

Suhith has worked as a counsellor for over 15 years: in the NHS itself, as swell as in a variety of counselling projects funded by the NHS and the Health Service. Suhith also works as an organisational trainer, offering personal development courses.

“I am Indian, I grew up in Africa and have lived in London for over 30 years. Living in different countries has been a great gift to me in communication and understanding people from different cultures.”

Kay Dowd is an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) and a registered member of the United Kingdom Register for Counselling (UKRC). She is a Humanistic-Integrative Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor with particular interests in working with Addiction, Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse, Self-Esteem, Sexuality and Inner-Child work. Kay has worked in the voluntary sector and in the NHS. She runs a private practice in Central London and is one of the core facilitators on the CPPD Certificate Course.

Clare Soloway

Clare trained as a psychotherapist in the USA, and returned here in 1969. She was a pioneer of the humanistic movement, and co-founded Quaesitor, the first centre for Humanistic Psychology in Europe. Following her early training in gestalt and neo-Reichian psychotherapy, she developed an integrative approach through further professional training, including 15 years study of psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Over the last thirty years she has facilitated groups world-wide, trained psychotherapists and counsellors, and worked with many students and clients. Clare is the tutor on the Diploma in Clinical Supervision.

Richard is a BASRT Accredited Psychosexual Psychotherapist and Registered with UKCP. He trained at Spectrum, CPPD and the Whittington Hospital. He holds a Diploma in Counselling and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Psychosexual Therapy, and maintains a busy private practice in North London. Richard has a Diploma in Supervision, and supervises on the Diploma course. Richard teaches on aspects of Existential Therapy.

Bozena Merrick

Bozena is a UKCP registered transpersonal psychotherapist. She is a director of Terapia Training in Integrative Child Psychotherapy and Counselling. She originally trained as a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and supervisor.

BA, MA, DipPsychotherapy, DipSupervision, MBACP (Accred), UKCP Reg

Peter trained as an integrative psychotherapist at The Minster Centre in London. For a number of years, he trained and supervised counsellors at ChildLine. Subsequently, he held senior practitioner and managerial roles at a young people’s counselling agency in East London. Peter now works as a counsellor in an NHS brief therapy service and as a therapist in private practice. A qualified clinical supervisor, he also supervises for the mental health charity Mind.

Susy has been working as an administrator at CPPD for almost two years.

'We are a small team at CPPD and I really enjoy the responsibility of the diverse and interesting day to day work, being part of that team and interacting with the teaching staff and students.'