Nicholas Bayley was first an English teacher and then trained at The Site. He has a private practice in Reading, is on the Council of The Site and teaches psychodynamic studies at Oxford University.
Catherine Fraser recently qualified as a counsellor after completing a Postgraduate diploma at the University of Reading. She has been writing poetry since the age of 14, when at boarding school she would write poems on request for friends to send to their boyfriends. For the most part however, writing poetry has been a means of trying to make sense of worlds internal and external.
Kirsty Hall is an active member of the Site and inter alia the author of The Stuff of Dreams: Fantasy, Anxiety and Psychoanalysis. She is often on the lookout for the poetry embedded in prose.
Ian House taught English in schools and language schools in England, the United States and Russia. When he retired, poems emerged. His collection is Cutting the Quick (Two Rivers Press).
Wendy Klein is a retired systemic psychotherapist who has worked in many mental health settings. Since her retirement six years ago, she has concentrated on writing, mainly poetry. Her work has appeared in many magazines and journals. She has a second poetry collection coming out with Cinnamon Press entitled Anything in Turquoise.
Kate Noakes' most recent collection is Cape Town, Eyewear Publishing (2012). She blogs at boomslangpoetry. blogspot.com
Val Parks did her first degree in English literature. She trained first as a counsellor and psychotherapist at the Westminster Pastoral Foundation, but later developed an interest in Lacan, which prompted her to study for the MA in Psychoanalysis at Middlesex University, and to participate in the affiliate track of CFAR's programme. In 2007 she
joined the Site. She works in private practice and the NHS, supervises and teaches at the Site and WPF.
Peter Robinson has won the Cheltenham Prize and the John Florio Prize as well as two Poetry Book Society Recommendations for his poetry and translation, which include a Selected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2003) and, most recently, The Returning Sky (Shearsman Books, 2012). He is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Reading and poetry editor for Two Rivers Press.
Lesley Saunders is a poet and educationalist. She has four published collections and has won the George Macbeth poetry prize. Her most recent volume, Cloud Camera, is with Two Rivers Press. Further details:
Julie Walsh is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Warwick University. Her current research explores the psychosocial dynamics of shame. She is also a training member of The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
Barry Watt is a clinician in private practice and a training candidate at the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
Carol Watts is a poet and critic. Her recent poetry includes Occasionals, and the chapbooks Mother Blake and When blue light falls. Her poetry has been anthologised in the Reality Street Book of Sonnets, Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, and her ‘Zeta Landscape’ series in The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry. Her critical work includes The Cultural Work of Empire: The Seven Years' War and the Imagining of the Shandean State. She directs the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birbeck, University of London.
Robert Weiss taught art theory at Middlesex University and holds an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies from Brunel University. He has recently completed his training with the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and has a private practice in North London.