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Di Gammage (Founder & Course Director)
Di Gammage created The Lila Institute to offer a comprehensive, arts-based, therapeutic training for those wishing to develop their skills in working with troubled young people. She is a qualified play therapist, dramatherapist and clinical supervisor in practice since 1989. Di was a course tutor on both the dramatherapy and play therapy programmes at Roehampton University for twelve years, and has worked as a lecturer nationally and internationally. She is author of several chapters in both disciplines (some under her birth name of Grimshaw). Di is at present a senior trainee in Core Process Psychotherapy (Karuna Institute, Devon) - a model that integrates western psychotherapeutic and Buddhist-oriented approaches. The Core Process Model is based on the understanding that all human beings are essentially whole and healthy. This understanding also underlies Lila's training philosophy.
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Hilary Martin (Administrator)
Hilary brings to the team her co-ordinating and organisational skills. She also works in counselling, coaching, and staff development. She has worked in the area of personal development for over 25 years both as a practitioner and in business support and management. She was a staff member of The Findhorn Foundation for 10 years (an international community in Scotland), and after becoming a parent, she co-ran an alternative small school for 3 years near Bath.
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Julie Thompson (Play Therapist)
Julie has been a play therapist for over 10 years, an occupational therapist for over twenty years and she has worked in CAMHS services for the past 18 years. Her interests are in working with parents/carers and children (including filial therapy), as well as working individually with Looked After children. She enjoys employing groupwork with children and families, and particularly for children with chronic illness.
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Lynne Dewberry (Play Therapist)
Lynne has a background in anthropology and psychology. She works in JACAT (Joint Agencies Child Abuse Team) with children and mothers escaping domestic violence as a child therapist. Lynne is also a clinical supervisor.
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Nagamudra (Dramatherapist)
Nagamudra (Paul Filipiak) has a background in theatre. He trained at the Jacques Lecoq School of Mime and Movement in Paris and toured for many years with the internationally renowned theatre company, the Moving Picture Mime Show, a company that specialised in 'frantic antic' storytelling and maskwork. In 1993 he became ordained into the Western Buddhist Order and since then Nagamudra has been running retreats and meditation classes. In the last 10 years, he has developed an interest in psychotherapy and in 2006 he completed his MA in Dramatherapy at Sesame, Central School of Speech and Drama, London. Nagamudra is also a certified teacher with the T'ai Chi Union of Great Britain.
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Jenni Roditi (Integral Voice Therapist)
Trained as a composer and musician at the Guildhall School of Music, Jenni is also a singer songwriter and has a repertoire of original songs as well as composing two music theatre operas. Her work is informed by a long-term interest in composition, performance skills, Buddhism, psychotherapy, T'ai Chi, visualisation and contemplative listening. In 1998, Jenni completed the Foundation Training in Core Process psychotherapy. Click here to view the Integral Voice Therapy website.
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Maya Cockburn (Dance Movement Therapist)
Maya has 15 years experience as a Dance Movement Therapist. Prior to her training, Maya studied in Authentic Movement in the USA. She has extensive experience as a therapist and trainer and in 2005 set up Mamatoto Movement to work with mothers and their babies using movement to enrich the maternal bonding. Maya is a firm believer in the transformative power of movement as a means to develop creativity and promote healing.
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Jo Beedell (Art Therapist)
Jo has worked as an art therapist with pre-school children with special needs and their parents, in CAMHS, in primary and secondary education, with adults in inner city mental health services and with groups of young carers. She currently works as an art therapist for Penny Brohn Cancer Care (formerly Bristol Cancer Help Centre) with groups of cancer patients and their supporters, and at a psychiatric hospital running groups on acute admissions wards and for the detox unit.
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Henry Dunn (Music Therapist)
Henry works for the NHS in a Creative Therapy Team, where the mental health needs of adults with or without learning disabilies are addressed through music, art, drama and dance/movement therapies. Previously he worked in a school for children with visual impairments and learning disabilities. He has a special interest in working with clients diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
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Annie Rankin (Vajrasara) (Non Violent Communication)
Annie has worked in communications for 20 years, initially as a journalist and writer in the UK national press. For 5 years she was the director of communications for an international charity. A qualified NVC trainer, she currently teaches meditation and awareness courses, and leads retreats and trainings on NVC and conflict resolution. Annie's website: www.liveconnection.org.uk.
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Amy Urry (Systemic Psychotherapist & Supervisor)
Amy has many years experience as a systemic family therapist and was a Founding Member of the Family Therapy training in Exeter in the early 1980s. Amy has lectured on the MA in Complementary Health Studies at Exeter University and is currently Co-Director on the M.Sc in Psychological Therapies - Systemic Stream. She is a psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer in a specialist childcare agency supporting teams working with highly traumatised children.
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Jacquie Kilty (Therapeutic Counsellor & Sandplay Therapist)
Jacquie is a trained and experienced psychotherapist in Gestalt and Integrative Therapy and is a qualified and practising supervisor. She does workshops in Sandplay Therapy as well as individual work in her practice. She has spent many years counselling vulnerable young people in crisis both individually and in a group setting for a national children's charity. Jacquie is a practising Buddhist of 35 years and spent 12 years living with Tibetans in the Himalayas.
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Bernadette O'Brien
(Integral Voice Therapist)
Bernadette brings together twenty five years experience and research into voice and theatre practice, gained through her work as actor, director, teacher and therapist. She originally trained at Rose Bruford College where she now teaches Voice Movement Practice on the European Theatre Arts Course. In 1992 she trained in Voice Movement Therapy (VMT) and has since being working with voice in artistic, therapeutic and educational settings. She is co-founder of Integral Voice which offers courses in voice and personal process. Bernadette is also a psychotherapist in private practice, having graduated in 2006 from the Karuna Institute with an MA in Core Process Psychotherapy, which combines western therapeutic techniques with a Buddhist oriented approach, the fundamental premise being that embodied awareness is inherently healing.
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Anna Jacobs
Anna is a play therapist and arts therapist, having offered these therapies for over fifteen year. She is also a clinical supervisor. She loves offering training on all aspects of growth and has been an expert in bereavement and pre bereavement for families and young people over the last eight years or more. She loves sandplay therapy in particular, and holds the philosophy that our beliefs are only ever limited by our current experience and that we can continue to grow till the day we die. She is also a lifetime meditator and spiritual seeker.
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Yolande Anastasi (Dramatherapist (HPC Registered Arts Therapist))
Yolande Anastasi graduated as a Dramatherapist from Roehampton Institute in 1999. Since then she has been working with both adults and children in a variety of settings including psychiatric day hospital, family services unit, domestic violence unit, schools and private practice. Yolande developed and facilitates a series of training workshops at children's charity Kids Company which are rooted in attachment theory, and promoting the use of all the arts in therapy. Alongside this, Yolande continues to work therapeutically with children in schools.
Yolande has a continued interest in sharing new developments in psychotherapeutic thinking to a wider audience. She is also passionate about dancing Salsa and 5 Rhythms.
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