Our Senior Team

Andrew Balfour

Chief Executive Officer and course leader for the Clinical Qualification in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
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Meet Andrew Balfour

Andrew Balfour
Chief Executive Officer and course leader for the Clinical Qualification in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

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Biography

Andrew Balfour is Chief Executive of Tavistock Relationships. He originally trained as a clinical psychologist at University College London and then as an Adult Psychotherapist at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust, whilst in a staff post there. He subsequently trained as a Couple Psychotherapist at Tavistock Relationships, where for more than 10 years he was Clinical Director before becoming Chief Executive in 2016. He has many years’ experience of working psychotherapeutically with couples, developing new projects and conducting research. He has published numerous papers in the field and has taught and lectured widely both in Britain and abroad. His most recent book is; ‘Engaging Couples - New Directions in Therapeutic Work with Families’. Edited by Andrew Balfour, Christopher Clulow, and Kate Thompson. (Routledge, 2019).

Julie Humphries

Director of Studies
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Julie Humphries
Director of Studies

Biography

Julie has been a member of the Tavistock Relationships faculty since 2011. She initially led and managed short courses, then became Head of the Clinical Training in Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy, and then moved into her current role as Director of Studies in 2016. Julie is a senior couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist; and also has a Certificate in Psychoanalytic Supervision. Julie both teaches and supervises on the clinical trainings; and has published on domestic violence, couple theory, and adoption. Prior to training as a psychotherapist at TR, Julie was a university lecturer in Sociology.

Honor Rhodes

Director of Strategic Development
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Honor Rhodes
Director of Strategic Development

Biography

Honor trained as a social worker and has worked in both statutory and voluntary sector settings. At Tavistock Relationships she is responsible for the DWP funded Parents as Partners co-parenting groupwork programme, partnership developments and policy development work. Honor's particular interest is in effective interventions with families in trouble. She has written a series of short guides for practitioners including, 'A short guide to working with co-parents: why we don't, why we should and how we could' (Tavistock Relationships 2011). Honor sits on a number of Boards including her local NHS Clinical Commissioning Group Board and the Early Intervention Foundation. She was awarded an OBE in July 2010 for her work with children and families.

Judith Jamieson

Joint Head of Clinical Services – Intake and Allocations
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Meet Judith Jamieson

Judith Jamieson
Joint Head of Clinical Services – Intake and Allocations

Training

Co Module Leader, Clinical Skills module, Psychodynamic Programme

Biography

Judith is a psychodynamic and psychosexual couple psychotherapist. She is a member of BACP and COSRT. After qualifying and working with individuals, couples and families as a therapist outside the UK for a number of years, Judith joined Tavistock Relationships in 2010 to undertake further training in couple therapy and psychosexual therapy and has worked as a psychosexual therapist in the NHS.

Liz Hamlin

Joint Head of Clinical Services – Quality Assurance
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Liz Hamlin
Joint Head of Clinical Services – Quality Assurance

Biography

Liz Hamlin is Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council and is a member of our Alumni body as well as a member of the BPC’s Professional Standards Committee. She has worked with couples since 1990 and qualified as a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist in 2008. Liz has been a Visiting Clinician at Tavistock Relationships for many years working with couples, supervising practitioners and delivering training. In 2010 Liz took up the role of Clinical Lead in an IAPT Service managing a team of therapists delivering therapy in 15 GP surgeries in Ashford, Kent. Liz has a special interest in working with couples and individuals facing divorce and separation and is a member of the Divorce and Separation Consultation Service. She is a student on TR’s Professional Doctorate Programme looking to research the experience of older couples going through the process of divorce. She extended her initial training as a Couple Counsellor with East Kent Relate through being involved in setting up a service called Relateen for adolescents whose parents were going through divorce or separation. Liz has been an IAPT Couple Therapy for Depression Trainer and Supervisor having been involved in TR’s development of the training since its inception in 2010. In her new role as Joint Head of Clinical Service, Liz will be involved in allocations, consultation on complex cases and in addition would take a specific role in quality assurance, including dealing with client feedback, informal complaints, outcome monitoring, and involvement is policies and procedures.

Kate Thompson

Joint Head of Clinical Services and Head of Couple Therapy for Depression, Projects and Business Development
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Meet Kate Thompson

Kate Thompson
Joint Head of Clinical Services and Head of Couple Therapy for Depression, Projects and Business Development

Training

Couple Therapy for Depression Practitioner Training and Supervisor Training

Biography

Formerly an executive producer in the factual department at the BBC, Kate Thompson is a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist, faculty staff member and clinical lecturer at the Tavistock Relationships (TR). Formerly Head of Strategic Development at TR, Kate moved into a Head of Clinical Services role, with specific remit in development of the service and clinical responsibility across TR’s many projects. Alongside Head of Clinical Services, Kate is continuing her role as the Project Head for Couple Therapy for Depression Training of NHS practitioners nationally and clinical lead on Behavioural Couples Therapy for Alcohol Dependence. During her time on staff at TR, Kate has formerly also worked in TR’s mentalization-based therapy service, Parents in Dispute, TR’s specialist adoption service, and supervised TR’s violence project in Harrow and Parents as Partners, a group intervention for couples. Kate is registered with BPC and BACP and is a member of TR’s Alumni body. She runs CPDs in psychoanalytic psychotherapy for couples, aiming to include a wide audience, trained in different modalities and writes and reviews for a variety of publications. She co-edited ‘Engaging Couples: New Directions in Therapeutic Work with Families’, alongside Chris Clulow and Andrew Balfour, published by Routledge, 2018.

Pierre Cachia DCplPsych

Head of Online Therapy
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Pierre Cachia DCplPsych
Head of Online Therapy

Biography

Dr Pierre Cachia first joined Tavistock Relationships in 2007 as a trainee on the MA in couple psychotherapy and subsequently undertook doctoral research in the field. Since 2013 he has formed part of the clinical leadership while retaining an active role in training. Over the past three years he led the setting up of the Online Couple Psychotherapy Service which he currently heads and supervisees. He is a qualified counselling psychologist, psychoanalytic couple psychotherapist, individual psychotherapist and clinical supervisor.

Damian McCann

Head of Learning & Development; Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Clinical Lecturer
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Damian McCann
Head of Learning & Development; Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Clinical Lecturer

Biography

Damian started his training at Tavistock Relationships in 2008. Whilst training he began working at Tavistock Relationships where he established and co-ordinated the Wellbeing Service for Couples which offered a brief therapeutic intervention to couples. Since then, he has had a number of roles within Tavistock Relationships; as project lead for the delivery of training to senior CAMHS practitioners; Head of Clinical Services with responsibility for Intake and Allocation and Chair of Ethics. He has a particular interest in developing psychoanalytic ideas in regard to gender and sexuality and is also involved in thinking about couples and domestic violence. He holds a Professional Doctorate in Systemic Psychotherapy.

Lorna Robinson

Head of CPDs and Conferences
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Lorna Robinson
Head of CPDs and Conferences

Training

Theory Seminar Leader and Academic Tutor, Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Trainings

Biography

Lorna Robinson is a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist and individual psychodynamic psychotherapist. Formerly a literary journalist, she trained as a psychotherapist at Tavistock Relationships and has been on the faculty staff since 2018. She has responsibility for programming TR's public events, including workshops, lectures, interviews and conferences, which she also chairs. She works in the clinical service as a therapist and supervisor, and as a tutor and seminar leader on the psychodynamic training and a tutor on the psychoanalytic training. She is on the editorial board of the journal Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, where she is also the book reviews editor.

Amanda Hughes

Head of Psychodynamic Clinical Training, Head of Foundation Courses and Applications and Clinical Lecturer
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Meet Amanda Hughes

Amanda Hughes
Head of Psychodynamic Clinical Training, Head of Foundation Courses and Applications and Clinical Lecturer

Training

Programme Head of Clinical Qualification in Psychodynamic Couple and Individual Counselling and Psychotherapy

Biography

Amanda is the Programme Head for the Psychodynamic Clinical Qualification Training at Tavistock Relationships, responsible for student applications and the Foundation and Pre-Clinical trainings. Amanda also teaches on the Certificate in the Study of the Couple Relationship (for qualified individual therapists), the Pre-Clinical course and the Clinical training. Amanda has a long career in learning and development, HR, and coaching, having occupied Director positions in blue chip organisations as well as posts in education as a University Lecturer and a college Deputy Principal. She has an extensive background in teaching and training in both the private and public sectors. An experienced couple and individual psychotherapist, Amanda sees clients at TR and in her private practice.

Sarah Ingram

Programme Manager, Reducing Parental Conflict Programme
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Meet Sarah Ingram

Sarah Ingram
Programme Manager, Reducing Parental Conflict Programme

Biography

Sarah has a background in Community Development and has worked in both statutory and voluntary sector settings. Before joining Tavistock Relationships Sarah was Head of Parenting with responsibility for the development and delivery of parenting support for hard to reach families. At Tavistock Relationships Sarah leads the DWP funded Reducing Parental Conflict Programme, a large programme with a remit to evaluate evidence based interventions and their impact on reducing parental conflict.

Bridget Wilkins

Joint Programme Head of Diploma in Psychosexual Therapy and Course Leader for Certificate in Psychosexual Studies
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Meet Bridget Wilkins

Bridget Wilkins
Joint Programme Head of Diploma in Psychosexual Therapy and Course Leader for Certificate in Psychosexual Studies

Training

Lead on Psychosexual Studies Certificate and for the Psychosexual Diploma

Biography

Bridget Wilkins (Psychodynamic and Psychosexual Couples Therapist, Accred. COSRT, MBACP) is a couple and individual psychodynamic and psychosexual therapist and faculty staff member at Tavistock Relationships. She has responsibility for programming the centre’s Psychosexual Studies Certificate and for the Psychosexual Diploma. A former BBC producer, she retrained at Tavistock Relationships, completing their diploma in Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Psychotherapy before training as a Psychosexual Therapist. She has a particular interest in the impact of emotional experience on both the body and the mind.

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