Paula Conway
– Clinical Psychologist & Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Paula Conway is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with 15 years experience working with children, young people, adults and families, in all settings, from community clinics to psychiatric residential units and organic farms! Paula is also a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, trained at the Tavistock Centre, where she held a senior consultant post for the last four years. She managed and developed the Tavistock-Haringey Service, a dedicated mental health service for children and young people in care in Haringey. She has developed models of intervention designed to reduce placement instability and the consequent poor outcomes for looked after young people. See “Falling Between Minds: The effects of unbearable experience on multi-agency communication in the care system” Adoption and Fostering, 2009. Paula is a member of the NICE Guidelines Professional Development Group for Looked After Children.
Paula is also the founder and director of Grow2Grow, a social enterprise offering therapeutically supported vocational and training placements for young people on organic farms. In partnership with WWOOF, Grow2Grow was recently successful in winning a flagship Big Lottery/Ecominds Grant to establish a Grow2Grow site on Bore Place, an organic farm in Kent, part of the Commonwork Land Trust.
Andreas Ginkell
– Director St James’ House, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Andreas trained with the Arbours Association in London, which has a long-established record of applying psychotherapeutic and psychosocial approaches to working with people with severe emotional distress and difficulties of living. For the past fifteen years Andreas has developed this approach further in the areas of mental health recovery, social inclusion and vocational rehabilitation of people with psychosis. Andreas was from 2005-2010 Co-Chair of the Arbours Psychotherapy Training. Andreas has been Director of the mental health charity, St James House (SJH) since 2002. SJH supports the rehabilitation of over 1000 people per year affected by mental health problems. The Psychodynamic Development Model of Psychosis was further developed and is applied as part of the SJH psychosocial and vocational recovery services. Andreas is a board member of the National Mental Health Providers Forum and leads on mental health and employment services.