Link Centre Teaching Team
Core Team
Leilani Mitchell Dip Couns, CTA(P), UKCP Reg. Psychotherapist, TSTA(P), MBACP(Snr Accred Supervisor)
Leilani is a qualified counsellor and a UKCP registered psychotherapist and runs a successful private counselling and psychotherapy practice in Sussex. Working with individuals, couples and groups on a wide variety of issues she also supervises a variety of Counsellors and Psychotherapists in the south east and is co founder of The Link Centre. Leilani also does some work in business applying her knowledge of Transactional Analysis in an organisational context.
Mark Head BSc (Hons), Dip. TA Psych, CTA(P), UKCP Reg. Psychotherapist, TTA(P).
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.
Visiting Tutors
Carol Faulkner Dip Couns, Dip Supervision, CTA(P) PTSTA(P) - UKCP Reg BACP Accred
Carol is an experienced UKCP registered psychotherapist and works in private practice in Maidstone. She sees clients, both individuals and couples for psychotherapy and supervisees for supervision. Carol works as a Clinical Supervisor for the local Hospice and for members from the Welfare Department of the Kent Police. She also supervises two NHS groups along with a team of Social Workers.
Corrie Van Halm CTA, UKCP Reg Psychotherapists, PTSTA(P) .
Corrie was born in The Netherlands but has lived in the UK for nearly 30 years. Working as a psychotherapist, 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(P), 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. CTA(P), UKCP Reg. 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.