Notes on Contributors

Caroline Adewole trained at the Bowlby Centre as an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is a training psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in private practice. She is a parent facilitator, cultural competence trainer, and a course tutor at the Bowlby Centre where she sits on the clinical training committee. She works with both individuals and couples. Caroline has a special interest in working with clients who have experienced relational trauma originating either in their families or other institutions and wider social structures as well as the impact of systemic events of significance on people who are considered different. She has first-hand experience of straddling two cultures and therefore understands the complexities and nuances of this lived experience. Email: caroline.adewole@gmail.com

Gordon Alderson is a psychotherapist working in private practice and in the NHS. He trained at The Bowlby Centre during its previous incarnation as The Centre for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He has worked extensively in forensic settings and as a group therapist in NHS day services and is a training supervisor. He has also worked as an individual and group therapist with refugees and asylum seekers in North London. Email:

Orit Badouk Epstein is a UKCP-registered attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a trainee supervisor, and a trainee therapist. She trained at The Bowlby Centre, London where she is the editor of the journal Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis. She specialises in attachment theory and trauma and regularly lectures, teaches, writes, and presents papers and book chapters on these topics and consults worldwide on attachment theory. She runs a private practice and works relationally with individuals, couples, and parents. Orit has a particular interest in working with individuals who have experienced extreme abuse and trauma and have displayed symptom