Dr Estela Welldon is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the Tavistock and Portman Clinics in London. In 1997 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Science by Oxford Brookes University. Estela works privately as a psychoanalytical psychotherapist and organizational consultant. She is a Member of the British Association for Psychotherapy, the Confederation of British Psychoanalytic Council, the Institute of Group Analysis, the American Group Psychotherapy Association

Associate Medical Director and Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at SLAM where he works in prison, secure health and community services providing treatment and management for offenders with personality disorder. He completed his PhD on the developmental neurobiology of aggression at KCL. He also has an interest in organisational dynamics and trained in the systems psychodynamics model of organisational consultancy at the Tavistock, London.

Dr Daniel Riordan BSc. MBBS MA MSc. FRCPsych. FRANZCP. MInstGA Dip FT is a consultant forensic psychiatrist, psychotherapist (general and forensic) and group analyst. He has worked in secure hospitals and prisons in the UK and Australia. He is a member of the IAFP and Australian Forensic Psychotherapy Association (AFPA) board. He has published articles and books/chapters in forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy.

I am a Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalyst and have experience in the assessment and treatment of people suffering from a wide range of personality and other difficulties who have been destructive to themselves and others.

Dr Moustafa Saoud MBBCh, MRCPsych MSc is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Forensic Psychodynamic Psychotherapist in Sussex. He leads MSc Psychiatry at Brighton & Sussex Medical School and is registered with the BPC and FPS. His work in secure forensic settings and community services focuses on integrating accessible psychodynamic approaches with forensic psychiatry in complex cases of personality disorders, trauma and psychosis. He provides expert witness testimony in criminal proceedings.

Dr Leonardo Cabrer works as a Director at S&P Dow Jones Indices, where he leads a team within the Research & Design department. Prior to his career in finance, he completed his PhD in mathematics and worked as a mathematician in universities worldwide for over 15 years. He is the author of numerous publications on the connections between mathematical logic and geometry.

Anne works as a Principal Psychotherapist and Group Analyst within the NHS. She is also Director, Consultant Nurse and Psychotherapist at Psychological Approaches CIC where the focus of her work is providing training and consultancy including staff groups to forensic services.

Dramatherapist, clinical supervisor, visiting lecturer and author, specialising in the assessment and treatment of difficult to engage violent offenders in NHS secure hospitals using a combination of theatre, movement and psychotherapy. She currently manages a team of Arts Psychotherapists in the Forensic Directorate of East London NHS Foundation Trust.

Dr Wayne Bodkin is a practising psychoanalytic couple therapist. He trained with Tavistock Relationships and holds a doctorate in couple psychodynamic psychotherapy. He has lived and worked in the city of Montpellier in the south of France for the last 32 years.

M.D. is a Psychiatrist and Criminologist, full member of the Italian (SPI) and International (IPA) Psychoanalytic Society. He works as Consultant Psychiatrist in the male prisons of Padua (Italy). He is been guest lecturer on Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Padua and has edited a book ("L’io criminale” (2018) Alpes, Roma) on Forensic Psychiatry from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Anna is a Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist who has worked in forensic settings for the NHS for 30 years, specialising in evaluation and psychotherapeutic work with criminalised women.

Chief of a Psychiatric network of Local Health Authority “Toscana Centro” managing mental health services inside the prisons or the residences for psychiatric patients sentenced to a security measures. Director of a REMS.

Social worker and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Sydney. I treat children, adolescents, adults and couples presenting with a broad range of emotional, behavioural and psychiatric difficulties. Prior to commencing private practice, I worked in secure settings treating children/adolescents who engaged in harmful sexual behaviours and adult sex offenders. I provide independent expert advice to the courts & NGOs.

Victoria Childs

Psychiatrist, with experience in the Russian penitentiary system, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, PhD. Currently resides in Israel

Prior to Dr Blake’s medical training, he worked as a Social Therapist in the Millfields unit from 2014 to 2016 which was an adapted therapeutic community, in a medium secure forensic setting, set up for the treatment of high risk offenders with personality disorders. Currently, Dr Blake is training in greater Manchester as a core psychiatric trainee beginning August 2023.

Founder and Clinical Director at Third Eye Psychology Ltd: Clinical, Forensic, Organisational and Media Psychological Services

Experienced Clinical Director with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Skilled Individual & Group Therapy, Clinical Research. Strong healthcare services professional graduated from Middlesex University, Manchester University & Portsmouth University, also studied Post graduate Applied Psychology Aberdeen University. Master practitioner of Hypnotherapy & NLP.

Dr Ken Murphy is Acting Principal Psychologist with the Irish Prison Service in Dublin. He worked in Medium and Low Secure Forensic Services in the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and completed the Forensic Psychodynamic Psychotherapy training at the Portman Clinic, London and a PhD from University College Dublin. He is registered with Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists and the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC).

Noura Al-Juffali is a Forensic Psychiatry Specialist Registrar and Academic Clinical Lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.She helps organise and facilitate the newly-launched trainee seminars of the International association of forensic psychotherapy (IAFP). She has an avid interest in psychotherapy and has completed the foundation and post-foundation courses at the Institute of Psychoanalysis.

Richard Curen works in private practice as a psychotherapist and supervisor. He trained at the Gestalt Centre London and at that Portman clinic where is teaches and supervises trainees. Richard was consultant forensic psychotherapist and supervisor at Respond where he worked for 17 years, and where he led the forensic service for adolescents and adults with intellectual disabilities or autism. He is the Chair of the Forensic Psychotherapy Society and is registered with BPC and BACP.

Professor Brett Kahr has worked in the mental health profession for over forty years. A Registrant of the British Psychoanalytic Council, he is Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and, also, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health. A Trustee of the Freud Museum London, he is author or editor of twelve books and series editor of over fifty-five further titles.