Taming Resistance to Thinking: Place of Containment in Organisational Work

Consultant clinical psychologist and is trained in organisational consultancy. She has an extensive experience in delivering, developing, and leading psychological therapies and working with complex systems. She has worked in a wide variety of educational, clinical, and organisational settings in the UK and overseas. She leads professional practice development in a NHS Foundation Trust. She has been involved in professional and organisational development, change projects, and training/consultancy on leadership and group relations. She works as an associate at the Tavistock Therapies Development Unit and has been a visiting staff member for the Tavistock MA in Consultation to Organisations. She is an accredited supervisor and trainer in dynamic interpersonal therapy. She holds a keen interest in working with borderline states of minds, leadership development, conflict management diversity, difference, and power relations. Her consultancy approach pays particular attention to the dynamic and systemic influences arising from the interplay of familial, religious, socio-cultural, and other life contexts. She is the director of a London based consultancy, Psychological Horizons. She is an executive member of the British Psychological Society Faculty on Leadership and Management, the Pakistan Professional Forum, and member of Organisation for the Promotion of Understanding in Society (OPUS). She is registered with the UK Health Professions Council.