Noreen O’Connor (B.A., M.A. First Class Hons., PhD Contemporary European Philosophy, Dip. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 1988). I have been practising as a relational psychotherapist for over thirty years, including working as a psychotherapist in a university counselling service. I have been a training committee member of three psychoanalytic psychotherapy organisations in London offering teaching and supervision. I am a training therapist. I have lectured publicly in the U.S. and the U.K. and have run workshops on post-modernist phenomenological perspectives in psychoanalytic practice. My philosophical research on the work of Emmanuel Levinas focused on The Problem of Self-Identity; Exile and Enrootedness (PhD. Thesis), themes which I continue to find integral to my clinical work.I have taught philosophy in a number of universities and social philosophy in adult education centres in the U.K. and Ireland. I have published widely in the psychotherapy field (see Publications page).
Mary Lynne Ellis (B.A. Art and Design, Dip. Art Therapy 1983, Dip. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 1992, M.A. Art Therapy, M.A. Modern European Philosophy 1998). A founder of the Islington Women and Mental Health Project (the Maya Centre), I worked initially as an art therapist, including in the NHS, as a psychotherapist and art therapist in an LGB Counselling Service, and as a group therapist in an innovative therapeutic community I co-founded in North London. I have been in full-time private practice as a relational analytical psychotherapist with individuals for over thirty years, including supervising and working as a training therapist for psychoanalytic psychotherapy and art psychotherapy trainings in the U.K. Lecturing publicly and providing workshops in Ireland, Chile, and the U.K. on phenomenological perspectives in clinical work I have been particularly engaged with questions of identity, embodiment, and language. I have published widely (see Publications page) and I am also a practising artist.
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