Our Training Team

Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling (BACP Accredited)

Core Training Team

Dr Hannah O’Brien

Dr Hannah O’Brien is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist (CPsychol) and Accredited Psychodynamic Counsellor (MBACP Accred) with over ten years clinical experience working in various settings in the community, education and the NHS. As a qualified teacher, Hannah has taught at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. Her research on ‘How fathers make sense of their experience of stillbirth after therapy: An Interpretative Phenemonological Analysis’ for the University of Roehampton has given her a particular interest in understanding emotional issues relating to loss, identity and gender. She teaches Clinical Concepts on our Diplona programme alongside her private practice.  

Inthia Stacey

Inthia Stacey has been working as a seminar leader for the Centre since early 2018. She has been in private practice since 2014 and since 2019 has co-facilitated a therapy group in a forensic psychiatric unit with the NHS.  She has been working in a counselling charity since 2009.  Inthia is a psychodynamically qualified counsellor, qualifying in 2009 with the Centre and is a psychodynamic psychotherapist and member of the Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP) since 2019.

Alison Davis

Alison Davis qualified as a Psychodynamic Counsellor at The Counselling Centre in 2017 and is BACP accredited. She is also qualified in Adult Education and Training and previously taught integrative counselling to diploma level. She is now teaching psychodynamic psychopathology on the diploma programme at TCC. Additionally, as a TCC senior counsellor she is part of the assessment team, works with open ended and brief focused clients and is a trainee tutor. Currently, Alison is also nearing the end of a part-time BSc in Psychology accredited by The British Psychological Society (BPS).

Marcus Price

Marcus is a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and member of the UKCP, CPJA, and BAPPS. He is the founder of the Experiential Psychotherapy Initiative Community (EPIC) a psychotherapist’s cooperative that provides professional development seminars and courses for health professionals. He studied individual and group psychotherapy at The University of Kent, Group Analysis at The Institute of Group Analysis and Birkbeck London, and clinical Supervision at The Society of Analytical Psychology.

Marcus has an interest in psychotherapy and the arts and has published ‘ Asleep on The Volcano, The Poetic Landscape of Psychotherapy 2020’ an anthology of poems and paintings that he produced in between psychotherapy sessions with a  commentary on his substantial work with forensic patients. Marcus is a member of the Group Analytic Society International (GASI) and is the former poetry editor of their newsletter, Contexts. 

Stephen Millington

Stephen Millington is a qualified psychodynamic psychotherapist with experience of working individually with adults in a number of settings with a private practice in Hythe in Kent. He is also a qualified psychoanalytic supervisor and a UKCP registered supervisor. Stephen completed the 4-year diploma course at WPF in 2007, and subsequently the Diploma of Proficiency in Psychoanalytic Supervision from The Guild of Psychotherapists and is registered with UKCP, and a member of the Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling (FPC) and British Association for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Supervision (BAPPS). His experience as a supervisor is with qualified and training counsellors and psychotherapists, individually and in groups, in private practice and in clinical and training organisations.

Joan Wilson

Joan Wilson is a Jungian Analyst who trained at the Association of Jungian Analysts in London and is also a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist qualifying at WPF. She is a member of the International Association of Analytical Psychologists, UKCP and BPC. In addition to having a private practice in Kent, she supervises at The Counselling Centre and Sutton Counselling Services. In the NHS Joan is a senior psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor for the Woman’s Service that provides longer term therapy for adult survivors of sexual abuse. Joan has extensive experience of assessments and has provided workshops for this and other topics for several years.

In addition to the above core training team members, we welcome a number of visiting seminar leaders with specialisms in their subject area during the second year of the diploma. 

Certificate in Psychodynamic Counselling Skills

Rhoda Scantlebury

Rhoda Scantlebury is a BACP-accredited psychodynamic counsellor who brings her therapeutic and teaching experience to the centre. As a senior counsellor, she also contributes to the centre’s ongoing work in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, providing CPD in EDI for counselling staff. She leads Certificate Training and teaches Developmental Psychology on the first-year Diploma course, as well as the Cultural Concepts and Ontology units in the second and third years. Alongside her work at the centre, Rhoda runs a private practice supporting young people aged 16+ and adults, and is additionally trained in Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) for therapeutic work with families experiencing violent or destructive behaviours in children and young people.

Laura Burden

Laura Burden is a registered member of the BACP, trained as a psychodynamic counsellor she work with adults and children.  Laura works at the centre as a senior counsellor as well as teaching the certificate course and the Introduction to counselling one day course. Psychodynamically trained to work with adults she spent several years training to work therapeutically with young people aged 10 and above completing a CPCAB accredited course in 2024/2025.  Laura also works with adults and young people at a therapeutic practice in Lindfield near Haywards Heath. Prior to training as a counsellor Laura volunteered for the Samaritans for 3 years and the NSPCC  for 5 years delivering the “Speak out Stay safe” campaign and raising awareness about abuse and how children can contact Childline: this was delivered by running workshops and assemblies in schools across Kent.