OUR TEAM

Chair of Trustees

Louise McCabe

MSc, MCIPD

I am a Responsible Business Consultant with many years’ experience in Corporate Responsibility and a background in HR, marketing and communications. My company Flourish CSR provides specialist advice to high street retailers, global fashion brands and NGOs on a range of issues including sustainability and climate action, ethical sourcing, diversity and inclusion, animal welfare and charity partnerships.

Trustees

Sarah Fairbairns

Trustee

I am a psychotherapist and was one of the first to work with clients with TFSW when the charity was created. After many years I chose to step back from the frontline and become a trustee instead. Since then I’ve had several different roles: fundraising initiatives, organising conferences, marketing and proofreading leaflets.

John Eames

Trustee

I have worked as a barrister representing individual clients in immigration cases in courts and tribunals. I am a tribunal judge sitting in the social entitlement and immigration & asylum chambers of the First-tier Tribunal

Miriam Nye

Trustee

I have over 10 years’ experience as a specialist social worker working with refugees. I currently run a support service for refugees and migrants living with HIV in the Bristol area.

Liz Murphy

MB, ChB
Trustee

I worked as an inner-city GP with a remarkably diverse population for many years. I became interested in the physical, psychological, and social issues affecting the health of people I was working with who had fled war, persecution, or oppression. I became a trustee of TFSW after retiring from clinical work.

Clinical Director

Head of Operations

Judy Ryde

PhD UKCP reg.

I am a psychotherapist and particularly interested in working across cultures and within the field of intercultural therapy, working with those who are traumatised by war and countries in conflict.

Katie Hope

BA (Hons), PG Dip HIC

I have 25 years' experience of management in the charity sector, particularly with refugee organisations.

Administrator

Julie Jeffery

Administrator

I have over 30 years of experience in financial operations, management and IT solutions.

Therapists/supervisors/trainers

Michelle Oakman

Dip HIP UKCP reg.

As well as running a private practice in Bath, I work with the charity Trauma Foundation South West counselling refugees and asylum seekers and providing supervision for staff.

Lynn Linsdale

Dip HIP MA HIP

I have particular experience associated with working with clients suffering from anxiety, trauma, depression PTSD, and sexual abuse. I am also a supervisor and trainer for external agencies with TFSW.

Nicola Jefferies

BA (Hons) HDP, Dip HIP, MA

I am an experienced counsellor and psychotherapist working in private practice and for TFSW. I am a member of UKCP and I'm also a qualified clinical hypnotherapist, and a qualified supervisor. I am trained in body psychotherapy and mindfulness.

Kirstie Adamson

BA, MSc, SEP, BACP(Accred)

Over 20 years experience of working with trauma, transition, adoption, attachment. I am also a somatic experiencing practitioner so particularly work on links between our emotions and the movements and sensations of our body. I am a therapist and trainer with TFSW.

Ceinwen Birrell

MA, MFA

I am an art psychotherapist registered with HCPC and BAAT as well as a visual artist, specialising in painting. I work 1-1 and with groups and families. I have a particular interest in working with marginal groups such as refugees and asylum seekers. My work is trauma informed, socially engaged and intersectional in its focus. I run two art therapy groups for TFSW.

Susan Pontin

BA Dip HIP UKCP reg.

My approach as a psychotherapist places high value on the human relationship between client and therapist. I provide supervision to external agencies for TFSW.

Ellen Hart

BA Hons

I have twenty years of experience with problems such as anxiety, depression, trauma, bereavement, loss, addiction, eating disorders, physical and sexual abuse, relationship problems, lack of confidence, and many others.

Salma Siddique

PhD, FHEA, FRSA, FRAI

I'm an an academic and clinical (psychotherapist) anthropologist. I obtained my doctorate in anthropology from the University of St. Andrews and later qualified as a UKCP registered psychotherapist and clinical supervisor. I am a therapist and trainer for TFSW.

Katie Hope

BA (Hons), PG Dip HIP

I have 25 years' experience of working with refugees in the voluntary sector. I am a fully qualified humanistic integrative therapist with a special interest in trauma. I run a TFSW therapy group for Afghan men.

Ana Jorge

MA, UKCP

I am an accredited psychotherapist working with both individuals and couples. I work in an integrative way, which means I am trained in a number of therapeutic approaches. I am a TFSW supervisor for external agencies. I also have a passion for helping people to express themselves through arts and movement.