Dr Georgina Bell
Lead Therapist and Clinical Psychologist , DClinPsych
Georgina is trained as a Clinical Psychologist and has been working in the NHS CAMHS services in South West London for over 20 years. She joined WLAC in September 2014 as the lead therapist. She has a particular interest in working with young people and their families with anxiety, depression, self harm and eating disorders. She has considerable experience of working with other services such as schools and social care.
Lanette Gayle
BACP accredited Humanistic Integrative model
Lanette works with Adults, young people, children and families, offering therapy. She works with an integrative approach combining humanistic and psychodynamic therapy. Lanette has worked in education as a therapist and inclusion manager for many years offering therapeutic support. She is one of the co- facilitators of the Mighty Me, Shining Stars and Cool Moves programs that WLAC runs in schools.
Jo Hercock
UKCP (Accred); BSc; MA; UKCP
Jo is an Integrative Psychotherapist who provides a safe therapeutic space for clients. She enjoys working in a collaborative relationship with clients to explore and understand the issues and difficulties facing them and help them to make the changes they want in their lives. Jo works with young people and adults in individual therapy and facilitates parents’ and children’s groups. She has specialist experience of working with women and children affected by domestic violence
Louis Hook
Psychotherapist , BA (Hons); MSc; MBACP (Accred).
Louis is a person centred psychotherapist. He works with young people and adults individually. He has experience working in school and university settings. As well as working individually, Louis has also facilitated therapy groups for teenagers. Louis is committed to offering a therapy that moves at your own pace, helps you understand yourself, and promotes your freedom and wellbeing
Jayne Kelly
BA (Hons); MA
Jayne is an Integrative Psychotherapist who divides her time at West London Action for Chlidren between individual therapy and working in schools. She has a wealth of experience of working in the education system with families and young people, particularly at secondary school level. Jayne specialises in working with young people directly to help them understand the strengths they have and how they can use these to build the lives they wish to lead.
Dr Yvonne Osafo
Parent Infant Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Yvonne is a UKCP accredited Parent-Infant psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with a focus on early intervention and prevention from pregnancy to age two years. She also works psycho dynamically with young offenders, school refusers and with the family as a unit, including fostering and adopting families. As a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, she has travelled to Czechia, Scandinavia, and the USA to learn from best practice in parent-infant psychotherapy
Deborah Quy
Msc Systemic and Family Psychotherapy; Bsc Nursing; Counselling Dip; UKCP and MBACP (accred).
Deborah is a family and systemic psychotherapist. She has a background in nursing, pastoral care and social care. She works collaboratively with families providing a space to help them better understand and support each other in overcoming the challenges they face. Deborah also facilitates parenting groups, including those for Dads.
Maria Augustine-Barrett
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (MSc)
Maria is a child and adolescent counsellor and psychotherapist. She has experience working in CAMHs adolescent inpatients settings as well as mainstream Primary schools and Special Educational Needs school settings. She works individually with a child-led approach to help build confidence, self-esteem and resilience.
Susanne Nawratil
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (MSc.), UKCP & MBACP(Accred).
Susanne is an integrative therapist combining a psychodynamic and person-centred therapeutic approach. She has extensive experience of working individually or in groups with children, adolescents and adults in school settings. She applies systemic thinking and promotes early intervention and prevention with the wellbeing of the whole family in mind.
Karen Bassett
Family and Systemic Therapist
Karen is a social worker who has recently completed her family therapy training. She works systemically with families and individuals. Karen is new to the team and has a background in working as a social worker in Children and Families, Fostering , Family Support Services and CAMHS. She also has experience of working with women and children affected by domestic abuse.
Astrid Winkler
Family and Systemic Therapist
Astrid has an MA in Social Work (Tavistock/UEL) and an MSc in Social & Organisational Psychology (LSE). She has a background in policy research, looking at the impact of social and urban policies across the U.K. and Europe. Following this she moved into work with Looked-After Children, and then in a CAMHS outreach service in East London, before joining WLAC in 2021. She is Associate Director of the Family Therapy & Systemic Research Centre and co-founder of the SCORE-15 app which digitises the main relational outcome measure for Family Therapists.