Penelope Allsobrook is currently in training at the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She has moreover many years of experience in clinical social work and currently works in a community clinic as well as in an academic context.
Abi Canepa-Anson is a psychotherapist, writer and activist keen to make psychotherapy more accessible to those who need it. She has a particular interest in raising awareness about the stigma around mental health and the effects of racism on black lives. She is a qualified psychodynamic psychotherapist, having undertaken her clinical training with the Westminster Pastoral Foundation (WPF). She has a Masters in the Psychodynamics of Human Development from Birkbeck University and a postgraduate diploma in Psychodynamic Theory and Practice from Roehampton University. She also trained at the Relate Institute in Relationships Counselling, in Psychosexual Therapy at the Tavistock Institute, and at the Institute of Group Analysis and is qualified as a supervisor. Abi has worked in a psychiatric hospital as well as in higher education. She now works in private practice offering individual and couple therapy, group work and supervision. She has vast experience working with complex personality types and common conditions such as depression, anxiety and stress-related issues, bereavement and loss, adoption, relationships, identity and belonging. In addition to her private practice, she has led workshops and taught on postgraduate courses on difference, diversity and inclusion.
Wendy Dugba is an HCPC Registered and BPS Chartered Counselling Psychologist with over twenty years' work experience, in various settings. Including the NHS where she provided psychological counselling for people with severe and enduring mental health issues. Over the last seven years she has worked with children in various forensic settings. Wendy is currently working on her doctorate research, an investigation into the narratives of Black and Brown teenagers who use and carry
weapons. In addition, Wendy is developing her private practice as a practitioner and clinical supervisor. She is increasingly using EMDR in her clinical work, and working towards her EMDR accreditation, with a special interest in the utilisation of EMDR in the Black British Community.
Eric Harper is a psychoanalyst with a history in activism.
Duncan Harris is a practising psychoanalytic psychotherapist and member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
Katia Houghton is psychoanalytic psychotherapist working with adults and young people, and a member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. After a decade of working as a therapist and supervisor in schools, she is now concentrating fully on her private practice, teaching, reading and writing.
Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel is a senior lecturer in the department of Jewish History and Thought at the University of Haifa, and Research Fellow at the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Her publications include Holiness and Transgression: Mothers of the Messiah in Jewish Myth ; The Feminine Messiah: King David in the Image of the Shekhina in Kabbalistic Literature and, recently, Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis . She has also published two books of poetry: The World Has No Silence and The Soul is Moved .
Matt Lee is a working-class philosopher at Free University of Brighton (FUB), where he has taught and organised for the last ten years. He also sometimes does Philosophy in Public on Twitch, when he's not teaching a class for FUB. He rides motorbikes and practises sorcery. More at .
Ana Minozzo is a clinician and researcher based in London. She has a PhD and an MA in Psychosocial Studies from Birkbeck, University of London and is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychosocial Studies within FREEPSY, at the University of Essex. Ana joined the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis as a trainee in 2021, after several years training at CFAR. She has experience with a number of community-based services and interests mainly in relation to psychosis, gender and sexuality, and migration. Ana has also been part of the Psychosis Therapy Project, as one of their psychoanalysts, since 2019.
Peter Nevins has been a psychoanalyst in private practice since 1995. He holds a doctorate in clinical science in psychotherapy from University of Kent and teaches at various psychoanalytic training institutions. He worked in mental health services in London 1988–2020 and was a founding member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis as well as the Chief Executive Officer at Islington Mind, a London based mental health charity, from 2001 until December 2020. He is an accredited Alternative Dispute Resolution Mediator with experience of both corporate mediation and mediation between patients and therapists. His areas of interest are in phenomenology and psychoanalysis and how the disciplines of psychology and philosophy can inform our practice of psychoanalysis.
Yael Pilowsky Bankirer is a member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, working in a private practice outside Cambridge, UK. She is a Medical Doctor (psychiatry) and has a PhD in Gender Studies, and Psychoanalysis. She has recently published her first poetry book Between our Tongues: Poetry between Languages . Her forthcoming book, The Leitfossil of Circumcision, will be published in 2024 (Routledge).
Tali Artman Partock teaches Judaism at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. She is the rabbi of Sukkat Shalom Synagogue, Wanstead, and a trainee at AGIP. Her research focuses on enslavement,
prostitution and sexual violence and paths for recovery from it in Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity. Some of these topics are discussed in her When is it Rape? Agency Personhood and Rabbinic Law (Routledge forthcoming).