Damian McCann is a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist working as Head of Learning and Development at Tavistock Relationships. He is also a consultant systemic psychotherapist working in a child and adolescent mental health service and is an associate of Pink Therapy where he teaches on the diploma in relationship therapy for gender and sexual diversities. His doctoral research was concerned with understanding the meaning and management of violence in the couple relationships of gay men.
Guy Millon is a counselling psychologist and is currently in training as a psychoanalyst with the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He works at an NHS gender identity clinic and advances an approach of making psychoanalysis more relevant to the trans person. He also works in private practice in Exeter.
Chris Oakley has been a psychoanalyst, supervisor and teacher for over 45 years. He is a founder member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and former member of the Philadelphia Association, where he worked with R.D. Laing. He is the author of Football Delirium.
Matthew Oyer is a licensed staff psychologist at Mount Sinai’s Center for Intensive Treatment of Personality Disorders (CITPD) in New York, an Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine, and a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice. He completed his doctoral training at the City University of New York and his doctoral internship at New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NYPSI) and Mount Sinai Medical Center. He has experience working in a wide range of settings, from inpatient psychiatric units and intensive hospital-based outpatient programs, to therapeutic communities, to substance abuse treatment facilities, to university counseling centers and outpatient mental health clinics. Dr. Oyer is on the editorial board of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis and is a participant at Après Coup Psychoanalytic Association and Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis.
Val Parks is in private practice as psychotherapist and supervisor. She is Chair of the London Training Committee of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
Henry Strick van Linschoten is a psychotherapist in private practice, based in London, UK. He is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist, specialising in relationships, sexual, gender and relational diversity, trauma and dissociation. He is an Advisor to Confer, and has made contributions to Confer and the Open University. He is a registered member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), a member of the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation (ESTD) and registered with Pink Therapy. In his earlier career, he graduated in Development Economics, Econometrics and Statistics, and was an international businessman. Preferred pronouns: he/his.
Barry Watt is a member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is a Senior Psychotherapist at the Psychosis Therapy Project at Islington Mind and a Senior Psychotherapist for St. Mungo’s Single Homeless Housing and Support Service in Waltham Forest.