Joanne Brown, PhD, MBACP (Accred), BPC DIT (Accred)

Training, qualifications & experience

• PhD Love and Intimacy, University of East London (Psychosocial Studies).
• MA  Psychoanalytic Observation Methods (M7: Working with Children, Young People and Families), Tavistock Clinic, London.
• PG Cert Counselling Aspects in Education, Tavistock Clinic, London.
• BA (Hons) Social Science, Nottingham Trent University.
• Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (2013), Anna Freud Centre, London (a BPC accredited course).
• CBT The Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, Oxford
• WPF (BACP Accredited) Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling, Southampton

I am a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and I am an accredited member of the BACP. I am an accredited Dynamic Interpersonal Therapist (DIT is accredited by the British Psychoanalytic Council). I have worked for a Southampton-based charity as part of a team of counsellors and I now work as part of a team of counsellors and psychotherapists in private practice.

I have been learning and teaching about emotional life, relationships and the mind since 1988 when I began teaching as a university lecturer. I now work at Southampton University as a Senior Lecturer in Psychological Therapies. I supervise and teach mental health practitioners and students. I work closely with clinicians in the NHS (at the Tavistock Clinic in London and in Southampton) in order to more fully understand the causes of emotional and psychological distress and the possibilities for recovery and repair. In my university role, I lead reflective practice groups, train students and staff in psychological therapies and offer research supervision. I have published in the areas of emotional life, reflexivity and mental health.