It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.Charles Darwin
Trainer Profiles
Leilani Mitchell Dip Couns, CTA, UKCP Reg. Psychotherapist, PTSTA.
Leilani runs a successful private counselling and psychotherapy practice in Sussex, working with individuals, couples and groups on a wide variety of issues. Leilani is the chair of membership for the Institute of Transactional Analysis, supervises a variety of Counsellors and Psychotherapists in her area and is a senior consultant for Link Consultancy, offering business training and coaching.
Mark Head BSc (Hons), Dip. TA Psych, CTA, UKCP Reg. Psychotherapist, PTSTA.
Mark is an experienced and qualified UKCP registered psychotherapist and has a private practice based in Sussex. An accomplished teacher, he has taught in a variety of settings including Counselling Skills and Diploma courses. He brings his business background and experience to his work in organisational development.
An endorsed TA supervisor, he runs a supervision practice for other counsellors and therapists. Mark is a member of the ITA Council - the governing body of the ITA.
Karen Minikin MA, PGCE, BACP Acc.
Karen is a qualified and experienced teacher and counsellor. Having taught in secondary schools, she moved to the airline industry and worked in customer service and management training for a number of years. There she started training in clinical and organisational applications of TA.
She is the Director of Link Consultancy and has worked as a trainer and consultant, using TA, for over ten years in a variety of organisations designing and delivering management and leadership programmes.
Karen is a BACP Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist and runs a thriving private practice in Brighton and Hellingly working with individuals and couples.
Karen edited the race and culture column for the CPJ between 2001 - 2004.
Corrie Van Halm CTA, UKCP Reg Psychotherapists, PTSTA.
Corrie was born in The Netherlands but has lived in the UK for nearly 30 years. Working as a psychotherapists, extensively with children and young people, she is also a trainer and supervisor based in East Sussex. She sees her professional identity as clearly rooted in both the humanistic as well as the psychoanalytic tradition and is qualified in TA. At present her interest is focused on the early developmental processes between mother and child and how these might be surfacing in the therapeutic relationship.
Jackie Peet RMN, RGN, CTA, UKCP rec. Psychotherapists.
Jackie is a Transactional Analyst, registered mental health and general nurse, with 25 years' experience of working in acute mental health settings. She started her career as a ward sister/manager in psychiatric intensive care. In more recent years she has worked as group facilitator and as a community mental health nurse and nurse therapist.
In addition Jackie has trained in family therapy, working with problem drug and alcohol users, group work, working with severe personality disorder and mentalisation-based therapy.
She has a special interest in personality disorders and, alongside her private practice, works as a psychotherapist at the Brenchley Unit. This award-winning therapeutic community provides intensive psychotherapy to individuals with severe personality disorders.
Marion Umney BA (Hons), MA, MSc, BACP Acc. Counsellor/Psychotherapist.
After obtaining her certificate in counselling from CSCT, Marion trained in Transactional Analysis at Wealden College and at Training South East England. She has been in private practice since 1997. Marion is also an NLP practitioner and runs a management development, business coaching and life coaching practice. Marion has a particular interest in eating disorders, and holds an advanced diploma in eating disorders and obesity from the National Centre for Eating Disorders.
Mica Douglas CTA, PTSTA, MASW, Diploma in Supervision
Mica Douglas is an independent psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor and works with both adults and children. She has a background in social work and trained to be a psychotherapist in 1996. She has contributed two chapters to a book about using TA with Children and Young People published by Russell House this year.
Jem Mills Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist, BABCP Accredited
Jem has worked in the field of mental health for 18 years and has been an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist for the last ten. He has experience in all the major applications of CBT and has developed special interests in helping people with problems such as low self-esteem, bi-polar disorder, voices and delusions.
He is an experienced lecturer, having written and delivered substantial courses at the Institute of Psychiatry, London and The University of Brighton. He has published several articles, chapters and textbooks on CBT. In 2005 Jem and his wife Sally (also a CBT therapist) founded Aurora CBT Ltd.