about us

Bozena Merrick

Clinical Director and CEO

Welcome

Terapia is one of the leading Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Counselling training organisation in the UK. We also provide highly specialised counselling, psychotherapy and bespoke mental health services for young people, children, parents and families, and offer our facilities for hire to psychotherapists and counsellors.

Our training is demanding; our graduates offer the highest standard of knowledge and therapeutic skills in the psychotherapy profession. Each student on Terapia’s course is required to provide counselling and psychotherapy hours with children of all ages as well as their parents as part of their training requirements. This affords us with the potential to deliver an invaluable service to families who would otherwise not be able to afford it. We have the psychotherapeutic expertise and facilities to make a lasting difference working with other agencies and linking education, mental health and social services. We aim to put positive examples of joined up thinking into practice.

We are a registered charity based in a purpose-built training and therapeutic facility, The Bothy, in Finchley Central, North West London. Our new centre opened in September 2017 after restoring the Grade II at Risk Register building and transforming it into the state of art Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Counselling Centre. We are proud to offer play therapy rooms, counselling rooms and sensory equipment which enable us to provide high quality mental health, counselling and psychotherapy services and a holistic approach to troubled young people and children. Find out more about The Bothy Story here.

Meet The Team

Bozena Merrick

CEO, Clinical Director & Founder

Kiran Rehinsi

Director of Training

Fay Graham

Academic Co-ordinator and Training Administrator

Sacha Richardson

Clinical Lead for Psychotherapeutic Services

Pamela Butler

Head of School Services & Development

Carmel Northcott

Recruitment Administrator

Tonia O’Donnell

Fundraising

Gosia Grela

Finance Officer

Pavlos Bakoulas

Facilities Manager / Receptionist

Fleur Rodgers

Front of House Receptionist

Daniel Stolfi

Link Tutor / Academic Support Tutor, PhD, MSc, MA, BA Hons, HCPC Reg

Tasha Bailey

Pastoral Support Tutor, MA Child Psych

Katy Wood

Whole School Approach Therapeutic Lead

Zisi Schleider

Whole School Approach Therapeutic Lead

Meet The Tutors

Alix Hearn

BA (Hons), MA Child Psych, Dip Supvn, UKCP, Clinical Supervisor & Tutor

Amalia Brightman

MA Child Psych, PCIT, ITEC, HPC, UKCP

Amanda Dudley

MA Art Therapy, HCPC, BAAT

Andrea Katz

Dipl Psych, BA (Hons) UKCP

Antonella Russo-Ball

Int (Arts) C. Psych, UKCP

Bethan Gibbs

Bozena Merrick

CEO, Clinical Director & Founder

Carol Nudds

MA Child Psych, Dipl. Psych Supvn, UKCP

Caroline (Lina) Walker

MA psych, UKCP

Claudia Di Campos

Biodynamic Psychotherapist

Daniel Stolfi

Link Tutor / Academic Support Tutor, PhD, MSc, MA, BA Hons, HCPC Reg

Di Gammage

MA Psych, UKCP, BADT

Diana Samuels

MA Child Psych, Dipl. Psych Supvn, CQSW, HCPC, UKCP

Dimpi Hirani

MA, MSc, BA

Fiona Hoo

BBA, MA DMT, RDMP, Dip Sup LCP

Tasha Bailey

Pastoral Support Tutor, MA Child Psych

Guy Gladstone

Helen Abrahamson

MA Child Psych, Dipl. Psych Supvn, UKCP

Prof Helen Cowie

MA, MSc, PhD, FBPS, PGCE, Dip in Psychotherapy

Juliet Lyons

MA Child Psych, MBACP, UKCP

Kate Daniels

MA, CQSW, BA (Hons) ACP Systemic Family Therapy

Louis Sydney

MA, Dipl SV, UKCP

Mairead Daly

MA Child Psych, MBACP, UKCP

Mariane de Freitas Cordeiro

MA(PsychPsych), MA(IMH), Dip(ClinPsych), BA(ClinPsych) BPC TPS Parent- Infant and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Martin Butwell

MPhil, MSc, BA

Martin Newman

MB, ChB, MRCPsych

Martin Weaver

UKCP registered

Noa Baum

MA in Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Clinical Supervisor and Lecturer

Retta Bowen

MA Child and Adolescent Psych, BA (Hons), MA, UKCP

Richard Bagnall-Oakeley

Child Psych, Clinical Supervisor, UKCP

Richard Stokes

Ruth Appleby

MA Child Psych, UKCP

Sacha Richardson

Clinical Lead for Psychotherapeutic Services

Sasha Morphitis

MA Psych, BA, PGCE, UKCP

Yvonne Osafo

DPsych Psych, CF

Zoe Weston

Child Psych, Clinical Supervisor, UKCP

Paul Cutler

MA Child Psych, UKCP

The Bothy Story

We embarked on an exciting period of growth and change in 2012, developing the Victorian Grade II listed Bothy, which is located within Stephens House & Gardens, Finchley, into our current home. Find out more about the project and the history of our wonderful surroundings.

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