Amanda Redstone has 30 years experience working with couples, families and individuals. She  worked as a counsellor and family therapist in Primary care in Devon for 18 years. She did her training in Narrative therapy with Michael White and teaches in the UK and internationally.

She has a private practice in London and offers supervision, face to face and via Skype.

Gillian Hughes is dual trained as a Clinical Psychologist and Family Therapist and currently leads the South Camden CAMHS Service at the Tavistock Centre in London. She has worked in the NHS for 24 years, in inner city boroughs, as a clinician and trainer in systemic and narrative practices, with a special interest in liberation and community psychology approaches. She has recently co-edited a book, Afuape, T, & Hughes, G. (2016) ‘Liberation Approaches: Towards Emotional Wellbeing Through Dialogue’. She is a UKCP registered family therapist and an AFT registered supervisor.

Hugh Fox has worked with children and families for over 40 years and has been involved with Narrative Therapy for over 20 years. He was a social worker before qualifying as a family therapist in the early 90s and moving to work for CAMHS.   He is a UKCP registered family therapist and an AFT registered supervisor.  He offers supervision based in Matlock, Derbyshire as well as by Skype or phone.

Rob Whittaker works as a Consultant Clinical Health Psychologist in Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He works mainly with people living with diabetes and HIV, though has many years’ experience working in inpatient and outpatient settings in a range of physical health specialties. He also works for the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust in the Gender Identity Development Service with gender diverse young people and their families.

Mark Hayward has worked as a family therapist for 25 years, was trained by Michael White and now teaches around the world. He has always worked with children and families, latterly also in the field of drugs and alcohol. Recent teaching assignments have taken him to Brazil, Russia, China, Australia and Singapore as well as many European countries and around the UK. He has published papers in journals in US, UK and Australia. A current project is revisiting Michael Whites early papers to draw out new practice ideas. He is registered as a UKCP Psychotherapist and an AFT Family Therapy Supervisor.

Anita Franklin, BA, MA, PhD is a narrative practitioner who works in educational and community settings.  Anita uses narrative ideas in adult education to support women whose lives have been affected by domestic violence, trafficking and other difficulties.  She served as co-director of the Centre for Narrative Practice in Manchester from 2002 to 2009 and has been cultural consultant to a number of national and international narrative events. She has contributed to the Dulwich Centre’s Race and Privilege project and to its Feminisms and Narrative Practice project.  Anita joins the INT team as an educational consultant to the training programme, to help maintain and improve the quality of teaching and learning for trainees and staff.  Anita brings with her over 30 years’ experience as a lecturer, course leader and examiner in higher education in the UK.  She has recently retired from the University of Sheffield’s School of Education.

Ben Shannahan is a UKCP registered family therapist who has worked with children and young people, individual adults, couples, parents and families in various contexts over the past 14 years. He has years of experience working in independent practice and CAMHS in London where he currently works consulting with young people and their families facing a broad range of emotional and mental health struggles. Ben is also a passionate musician and has an interest in using music as a medium to connect with young people and their families.

Mariangels Ferrer is trained as a Narrative Therapist having completed the inaugural Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work (Dulwich Centre/University of Melbourne), and is also qualified as a Clinical Psychologist and Family Therapist. She is currently a joint director of Riverbank Psychology. She has worked in the NHS in the past and is now working independently using narrative ideas with a specialist interest in the impact of medical genetic conditions on individuals and families. Mariangels is a UKCP registered Family Therapist and an AFT registered supervisor.

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Sabine Vermeire is a member of staff at Interactie-Academie. a training and therapy centre in Antwerp, Belgium, where she is a psychotherapist and supervisor as well as running training courses and workshops. She has helped develop a narrative network in the Low Countries that organises conferences and which functions as a forum for the exchange of ideas and mutual inspiration.  As a therapist her expertise is in working with children, youngsters and families in difficult contexts (violence, abuse, psychiatric problems and trauma) and working in creative ways when speaking becomes difficult.

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