Senior Management
Lissie Wright
Director
Lissie Wright (BA (Oxon), MA and Adv.Dip Integrative Psychotherapy, PG Cert CBT) trained at The Minster Centre where she returned to teach in 2007, becoming Director of Training in 2010 and Director in 2014. She previously worked in a series of management, communications and research roles in the public sector. Lissie also runs her own private practice as a counsellor and psychotherapist near Cambridge. She has particular skills in working with survivors of domestic violence and with anxiety.
Janek Dubowski
Deputy Director
Janek Dubowski (PhD. CPsychol) joined The Minster Centre as Deputy Director in 2021. He is also currently an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the University of Roehampton, London and a part-time tutor with the Art Academy, London. Prior to joining The Minster Center, Janek was the Deputy Head of Department of Psychology at the University of Roehampton from 2002 to 2020.
Rachel Gould
Deputy Director
Rachel originally trained at the University of Sussex, subsequently undertaking a training in Psychoanalytic Observational Studies at the Tavistock. She has worked as a counsellor and psychotherapist within a wide range of organisations including the NHS, charities, schools, colleges and Universities, as well as running a small private practice, since 2002. She is also an experienced supervisor and trainer, having previously taught at Birkbeck, Place2be and Regents. Rachel is also Head of Counselling and Wellbeing at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Training Committees
Pre-qualification Training Committee
Nancy Browner
Head of Year 1 Professional Training and Head of Finalists (MA)
Nancy Browner (MA, PG Dip Integrative Psychotherapy) has been teaching at The Minster Centre for over 10 years, becoming Head of First Year in 2008 and Head of Finalists in 2018. She runs a private psychotherapy and supervisory practice in Oxford and has a particular interest in working with trainees and recently qualified psychotherapists and counsellors.
Jenny Clark
Head of Year 1, Professional Training
Jenny Clark (MA Integrative Psychotherapy, Dip Integrative Supervision, Introduction to Group Analysis) has taught for 13 years at both the University of Hertfordshire and The Minster Centre. She is currently joint Head of First Year, teaching both Object Relations and Skills; is an ETG facilitator for the Fast Track Foundation and also a Live Assessor for Finalists. Jenny has a private practice in Hitchin for individual psychotherapy and supervision and is also a supervisor for two local counselling services.
Dr. Angela Cotter
Head of Research
Angela Cotter (PhD, Dip Health Ed, BSc(SocSci), Dip Analy Psych (GAP), Cert Supervision (SAP)) is Head of Research at The Minster Centre and a Visiting Lecturer at Regent's University, London. She has recently co-edited a book Dementia: An attachment approach (2018). Her research interests include the wounded healer, narrative and experience near research methods and action research. Angela also runs a private practice as a Jungian analyst in South East London, incorporating aspects of energy psychotherapy and shamanism into her clinical work.
Farah Cottier
Head of Year 1 MA / Year 3 Advanced Diploma
Farah Cottier (MSc, PGCE, Dip. Psych, Dip. Sup, PTSTA) is a highly experienced UKCP and BACP Senior Accredited Relational Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and Examiner with a large psychotherapy and supervision practice in London with 20 + years' experience. Originally trained at Metanoia Institute in Transactional Analysis modality, her current way of working combines a Relational TA approach with contemporary psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theories through an Intersectional lens. She is a Year 3 Integration Tutor and teaches on Diploma, Supervision, MSc and MA Integrative courses across 3 UK training organisations most notably Metanoia Institute since 2016 and The Minster Centre since 2019. In 2021 she became Head of Year 1 MA / Year 3 Advanced Diploma. Farah is a UKCP Assessor and conducts Organisational Member Reviews (OMR's) as part of a team.
Vaughn Goldschagg
Course Leader Foundation Year and Fast Track Foundation
Vaughn Goldschagg (MA Integrative Psychotherapy) has taught at The Minster Centre since 2015. He has over 10 years' experience of working with survivors of domestic violence and abuse, addiction, facilitating groups and short term work place counselling. He is particularly interested in unconscious processes, attachment theory, neuroscience, integration and the importance of the therapeutic relationship. Vaughn runs his own private practice as a psychotherapist and supervisor in South West London.
Anne Marie Keary
Head of Year 2 Professional Training
Anne Marie Keary is a Relational Body Psychotherapist (Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy). She has worked at The Minster Centre since 2010. She is currently the tutor for the Body in Psychotherapy module, Finalist supervisor and Head of the Second Year of training. Anne Marie has a special interest in working with issues around disability and childhood sexual abuse and facilitates workshops in these areas. She comes from a teaching background and works in private practice in Old Street.
Sue Martin
Head of Finalists (MA)
Sue Martin has 20 years' experience of working in the field of personal development and mental health.
This includes working with individuals in private practice as well as in organisations such as: London Underground (LU); NHS: Westminster Mind; Families Without Fear (FWF) (Domestic Abuse); Mapesbury Clinic (Refugees); London Ambulance Service, various Employee Assistance Programme).
Brigitta Mowat
Head of Year 1 MA / Year 3 Advanced Diploma
Brigitta Mowat (MSc, MA in Integrative Psychotherapy, Dip Integrative Supervision) has taught at the University of Hertfordshire between 2008-2016, and at the Minster Centre since 2011 as an ETG facilitator, supervisor, moderator and, since 2017 as a tutor on the MA programme. Brigitta is currently Head of Year 1 MA / Year 3 Advanced Diploma. Brigitta has a private psychotherapy and supervision practice. She is an active member of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) and writes about, and researches how psychotherapists engage with the Climate and Ecological Emergency.
Reena Shah
Head of Year 2 Professional Training
Course Leader Diploma and MA/PG Dip in Supervision
Reena Shah is a Relational Integrative Psychotherapist. She trained at the Minster Centre and has been a tutor across different year groups at CONEL College (North London) and at the Minster Centre since 2015. She is currently the tutor for the Diversity module in the Second year, tutor on Foundation year weekends and Deputy Head of the Second Year. Reena is also Head of Course for the Diploma and MA/PG Dip in Supervision alongside Roshmi Lovatt (see below) as well as being part of the Research teaching team, and has a particular interest in autoethnography.
Reena has a specialism in working with trauma and childhood sexual abuse (currently working as a supervisor at One in Four), and has a particular interest in issues of difference and diversity, offering training elsewhere in this area. She works in private practice in North London.
Hycinth Taylor
Head of Year 3 Diploma in Counselling
Hycinth Taylor is an integrative psychotherapist, mindfulness teacher, and clinical supervisor of both psychotherapy and mindfulness. With over 25 years in the field of mental health, Hycinth specialises in working with a range of mild to moderate mental health conditions including childhood trauma, relationship issues personal and spiritual growth as well as professional development .
Philip Wood
Head of Supervision
Philip Wood (MA. BSc. Dip Psych. Dip CBT) has taught at The Minster Centre for nearly 15 years. He has worked in the field of mental health for over 25 years; in both the NHS and in Private Practice in North London.
Post-qualification Training Committee
Roshmi Lovatt
Course Leader Diploma and MA/PG Dip in Supervision
Roshmi Lovatt is an Integrative Arts Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor. She is currently a Live Assessor and Tutor at the Minster Centre and Head of Course on the Diploma and MA/PG Dip in Supervision alongside Reena Shah (see above). Roshmi’s two passions are to work in creative and embodied ways and to address issues of difference and power in psychotherapy. She has worked within the NHS with refugees, in independent foster care with foster families and looked after children, alongside work in corporate companies and private practice. She currently runs a private group practice in Milton Keynes, and offers trainings and workshops for organisations nationally and internationally.
Andrew Sutton
Course Leader MA/PG Dip Advanced Clinical Practice
Andrew Sutton (MA and Adv. Dip. Integrative Psychotherapy) is Head of Course on the MA/PG Dip in Advanced Clinical Practice in Psychotherapy and Counsellling and is also a lecturer and academic tutor on the MA/Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling, teaching the Third year ‘Contemporary Theories’ module. As well as teaching, he has provided clinical supervision and facilitated groups for several other training courses across a range of modalities and approaches. Andrew maintains a private psychotherapy practice in London and provides clinical supervision for therapists and trainees.
