Our Team

Integrative, Person-Centred & Attachment-Informed

Experienced Practitioners, Here For You

At NeuroTribe UK, our multicultural team of practitioners offer therapy sessions, clinical supervision, CPD and training, with personal and professional experience, and special interests in neurodiversity, cultural diversity and intersectionality. Each of our practitioners are BACP, HCPC or UKCP registered Arts Psychotherapists or Counsellors Using the Arts, pairing talking therapies with creative modalities. We are integrative and person-centred in our approach, combining different tools and approaches to tailor our services to each individual client, helping you to explore your personal strengths and identity from your own perspective.

Our attachment-informed practice places open communication and trust at the forefront of our work, helping our clients to live a more rich, meaningful and independent life by understanding the themes and patterns that have affected them throughout their development. 

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Our Practitioners

Our multicultural team of associate practitioners all have lived experience or considerable professional experience with neurodiversity, and are highly skilled and experienced in the fields of both psychotherapy and education.

Kyra Hall-Gelly

MBACP

Special Interests: Diversity & Marginalization, Multicultural Counselling, Group Facilitation, Young People, Adults, Autism & ADHD

Kyra is a BACP registered integrative counsellor using art therapy, a lecturer in Counselling & Psychotherapy at Kingston College, London, and a former member of the Croydon SEND Parent Forum Steering Group.

She has worked with vulnerable children and young people for over 15 years in schools, pupil referral units, youth groups, colleges, social enterprises and youth arts projects as a youth worker, welfare and enrichment department head, and mental health worker.

She is a member of the BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy), has a PG Cert. in Counselling, an Advanced Diploma in the Therapeutic Application of the Arts, and a Level 7 Diploma in Supervision.

Jan Hall

MBACP, HCPC

Special Interests: Anxiety Disorders, Parent & Child Therapy, Clinical Supervision

Jan is an attachment-based art psychotherapist with many years’ experience in varied mental health and educational settings, both mainstream and alternative. Jan specialises in parent-child dyadic work as well as supporting individuals struggling with mood and anxiety disorders, depression, life transitions, relationship breakdowns, and bereavement, through therapy.

Jan also provides online and face-to-face Clinical Supervision for professionals working with children with SEND and SEBD.

She is HCPC registered, a member of the BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy), and has an MA in Arts Psychotherapy.

Marissa Green

MA HCPC BADth

Special Interests: Diversity and Marginalisation, Mental Health, Behavioural Challenges

Marissa is a dramatherapist and mental health practitioner, registered with the Health and Care Professions Council and the British Association of Dramatherapists. She has worked in a wide range of settings, including the NHS, mental health recovery, education (including primary, secondary, and Higher Education), and learning disability care. She has worked with a wide age range of clients using a person-centred approach, supporting clients and their families/loved ones with emotional and mental wellbeing.

Marissa lectures dramatherapy at Anglia Ruskin University.

Qetnefert Khema Netri Jeffers

HCPC, BADth

Special Interests: Problem Substance Use in Children, Young People & Adults, Autism, Hearing Impairments, Learning Disabilities, Developmental Delays, Language Disorders & Trauma

Qetnefert is a HCPC and BADth registered Dramatherapist. She has worked extensively in education primary, secondary, pupil referral units, children’s services, community drugs agencies, therapeutic communities and the criminal justice system.

Qetnefert specializes in using drama therapy and creative arts with children, young people and families in the neurodivergent community, who are experiencing addictions, trauma and marginalization. She speaks British Sign Language to level 1 and holds a certificate in Deaf Awareness. She also uses Makaton. Qetnefert can provide therapy with a BSL interpreter present.

Ali Rabjohns

MBACP (Accred)

Special Interests: Neurodivergent Young People & Adults, Learning Disabilities, Adults Interested in Exploring Creativity, Shamanic Practice & Ancestral Knowledge

Ali is a BACP registered Transpersonal Arts Counsellor with an established practice in the shamanic arts. In therapy, her knowledge and respect for ancestral knowledge enables her to empower her clients to connect to their creativity and spirituality in an embodied way. This can be very helpful for clients who prefer nonverbal expression. Ali is equally adept with talking therapy.

Ali works with a wide range of children, young people, and adults, supporting them with their mental health and emotional well-being, using a transpersonal and person-centered approach. Ali teaches a 1-year shamanic practitioner training, as well as seeing clients for healing, in my sustainable eco-lodge in the Sussex Downs.

Zena Nicholas

MBACP

Special Interests: Diversity & Marginalisation, Neurodivergence, Third Culture Individuals & Immigrants' Experience

Zena is a BACP registered humanistic therapist. She has personal experience of navigating cultures and neurodivergence, and is passionate about offering a culturally integrated, neurodivergent-tailored, gender and sexuality-affirming practice. Zena supports clients with a wide range of life challenges and mental health struggles through talking therapy.

Zena also runs professional and personal support spaces for other therapists, and facilitates training on many topics, striving to ensure the experiences of marginalised and minoritised groups are recognised and reflected in training and practice.

Pip Patrick

MBACP

Special Interests: Autism, ADHD, Identity, Trauma, Attachment and Relationships

Pip is a BACP-registered integrative relational counsellor. She has previously worked in the NHS, supporting a diverse range of people struggling with problems including anxiety, depression, relationship and family problems, identity issues, traumatic experiences in childhood and adulthood, work problems, health issues, pregnancy loss and neurodivergence.

Through her own lived experience of neurodivergence, Pip has learnt that marginalised identities can be sources of both challenge and strength and are fundamental to shaping us as the unique individuals we are. As she works with clients to create a deeper understanding of themselves and their troubles, Pip is committed to meeting all facets of their identity with compassion and respect.

Pip is a registered member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and has a degree in integrative relational counselling.

Anjum Siddique

MBACP

Special Interests: Loneliness, Loss, (Hidden) Identity and Disability

Anjum is a BACP registered Integrative Relational Counsellor. She has worked within the NHS for many years. She has had personal experience of the challenges of living with a ‘hidden’ disability.

Anjum works with her clients to process the often suppressed, painful and overwhelming emotions of fear, guilt, anger, shame and sadness that connect us all with being truly human. She explores past experiences and patterns of behaviour with her clients in order to promote self-knowledge and look towards potential for change.

Anjum is a registered member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and has a first class honours degree in integrative relational counselling.

Fariah Garner

MBACP

Special Interests: Identity, Trauma, Empowerment, Creative Therapy, and Multicultural Counselling

Fariah is a warm and inclusive integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor. She has worked for both in the NHS and private agencies. For many years Fariah has worked in the public sector supporting people with mental health issues and valuing their individuality.

She has experience supporting clients struggling with trauma, grief, identity, PTSD, eating disorders, low self esteem, abuse, family issues, cultural and racial issues and more. She has experience in, and welcomes, neurodivergent clients and works creatively to engage with feelings that some clients find hard to articulate into words.

Fariah has a first class honours degree in Integrative Relational Counselling and is a registered member of the BACP.

Georgie Calinescu Barber

MBACP Psychotherapist

Special Interests: Attachment, Trauma, Empowerment, Nature-Based Therapy, Psychoeducation, Gender Identity, Neurodiversity, Multiculturalism & Birth Psychology

Georgie is a BACP registered Integrative Psychotherapist with over 17 years of experience in both state and private practice and international settings.

Specialising in working with both children and adults, as well as other professionals, Georgie employs a holistic approach that blends various therapeutic techniques to cater to the unique needs of each client. Her approach to therapy is informed by a variety of theoretical orientations and evidence-based practices.

Georgie holds a Double Degree in Psychology and Social Work and a Master's Degree in Psychotherapy and has undergone extensive training in various therapeutic modalities. She is also a qualified Doula. 

Ellen Maslin

HCPC, BADth, EMDR Association UK

Special Interests: ADHD, Neurodiversity, LGBTQIA+ Matters, Diversity & Marginalisation, PTSD, Self-Exploration, Creative Expression

Ellen is a creative arts psychotherapist, trained in the modality of drama and movement. Since 2020, Ellen has worked with people of all ages (from young children to older adults) to support a variety of needs. Ellen's approach is client-led and predominantly a talking therapy, which leans on creative tools for expression and exploration to help deepen the therapeutic process. Ellen's practice has included conducting, publishing, and presenting research in the areas of neurodiversity and the importance of culturally responsive dramatherapy. As a neurodiverse person herself, she is passionate about supporting neurodiverse individuals to successfully navigate and regulate within a neurotypically designed world.

Ellen is currently training as an EMDR therapist, and is eligible to offer EMDR therapy to clients today. Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing therapy focuses directly on altering emotions, thoughts, and responses resulting from traumatic experiences. With a versatile approach that straddles two psychotherapy models, Ellen offers a range of options including therapy that is long-term or short-term, solution or non-solution focussed, talk-based or of minimal talking, or a combination, depending on a client's needs and interests.

Ellen has ADHD and Dyspraxia and identifies a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. With these lived experiences, Ellen is enthusiastic about supporting individuals with neurodiverse and LQBTQIA+ matters.

Roksana Paciepnik

MBACP, UKCP, MSc, MA

Special Interests: ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, (Transgenerational) Trauma, Relationships, Work Stress, Anxiety & Panic Attacks

Roksana is a psychotherapist with over ten years of experience in private practice and as an EAP counsellor. Before her career in therapy, she taught in special needs schools across London, where she honed her skills in supporting diverse individuals.
She employs various techniques, such as solution-focused therapy, humour, mindfulness, psychoeducation, and EMDR, to assist clients in realising their strengths and limitations and creating useful coping mechanisms.

Roksana is a neurodivergent therapist (Dyslexia) and understands the everyday challenges firsthand. She is an accredited member of the BACP and the UKCP. She holds an MSc in Transaction Analysis in Psychotherapy and an MA in Sport Management.

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