London Team
Lisa
Lisa serves as Head Of Centre for London with extensive clinical and operational expertise. Her career spans years of dedicated service within the NHS mental health sector, where she worked across a number of acute and crisis services. As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, she provided advanced clinical care ensuring patient safety and quality outcomes during critical interventions. Transitioning into operational leadership, Lisa managed complex services and multidisciplinary teams, driving improvements in efficiency, patient experience, and workforce engagement. Complementing her hands-on experience, she holds an MBA in Healthcare Management, which has empowered her to lead at a senior level with a strong focus on governance, financial stewardship, and transformational change. Lisa is passionate about improving delivery and accessibility to services whilst ensuring people in suicidal crisis receive timely, effective, and empathetic care from the people they see. Her approach combines compassion with innovation, ensuring services meet the highest standards of quality without compromising efficiency or productivity.
Robyn
Robyn is the centre manager at James’ Place London. She has a background working to support mental health teams. Most recently, she has worked at the Anna Freud Centre in their under-fives team facilitating psychoeducational parenting groups for new fathers and adoptive families. Robyn has been a supervising volunteer at The Listening Place providing listening support for people who are suicidal for a number of years and also tutors new volunteers.
Anja
Anja is a Wpf-trained and qualified Psychodynamic Psychotherapist with 25 years’ experience of working with adults in extreme and, at times, suicidal distress. Volunteering at Samaritans in her mid-20s set in motion a wish to work psychotherapeutically with people and if possible, within suicide prevention. This led to her volunteering and later working for several years at the Maytree Respite Centre. She has worked as a programme counsellor at ITV This Morning, seen clients in private practice and more recently, her work has taken her into university settings where she sees students with mental health difficulties and sometimes SEN. This has also involved supervising university mental health staff.
Lesley
Lesley is a qualified UKCP psychotherapist. Her approach is person-centred, focused on providing a safe, non-judgemental space for her clients. She has worked for a number of years for a homeless charity and then most recently in a prison counselling service in men’s prisons in London. She combines her work at James’ Place with work at Suicide & Co, a charity that supports people who have been bereaved by suicide.
Naz
Before moving to London, Naz qualified as a clinical psychologist in Turkey. She has worked as a mental health support worker in community-based services and is experienced in supporting people with complex care needs as well as immigration and cross-cultural conflicts. Training as a psychodynamic psychotherapist, she believes bringing awareness to the influence of our past experiences on our thinking and response to current challenges can increase our problem-solving capacities. Naz also provides psychotherapy in a specialist service in the NHS and is passionate about reaching out to diverse communities without barriers.
Amina
Amina is a qualified UKCP Transpersonal Integrative psychotherapist whose personal style is anchored in a natural sensitivity, creativity, and sincerity. Having worked within private, low-cost, and charity counselling services, she has years of experience working therapeutically with people from all walks of life, and through different personal challenges. Her therapeutic approach aims to support, and empower, clients in achieving authentic and holistic healing.
Caitlin
- Caitlin is a UKCP existential psychotherapist, who is also integratively trained. She feels therapy is ultimately about living more freely and her approach is grounded in hope. Her work is informed by philosophy, in that it explores what it means to be human, and seeks to understand each person's unique experience of life. She has worked with people from refugee and migrant backgrounds, LGBTQ+ people, survivors of abuse and young people, and co-run a grief therapy group. She has also been a crisis volunteer for Shout and a support worker for young people experiencing homelessness.
Dan
Dan has a background in the legal sector, community and social care, as well as content writing, editorial and creative start-up roles. A former user of James' Place intervention, Dan's experience has led him to manage all aspects of our community engagement in London.
Maureen
Maureen has worked in a variety of roles within the health and charity sector. Before joining James’ Place she worked in a busy NHS breast screening unit in St. George’s Hospital, and at Macmillan Cancer Support providing support for people affected by cancer. She has previously volunteered as a receptionist in the London Lighthouse for the Terrence Higgins Trust, and at ChildLine as a volunteer counsellor. She feels that the most important part of her role is to create a warm and welcoming environment so that every man that uses our service feels at ease, safe and valued.
Libby
Libby’s background spans both the NHS and the education sector, giving her a well-rounded understanding of care and support in different settings. Before joining James’ Place, she held an administrative position in an NHS GP practice, where she developed strong skills in patient support and service coordination. Prior to this, she dedicated five years to early years education, working with neurodiverse children and those with special educational needs. Collaborating closely with families and other professionals to provide tailored developmental and emotional support. At the core of Libby’s approach is her commitment to ensuring anyone who comes through our doors at James’ Place feels welcomed, respected and safe, contributing to the warm, person-centred environment that underpins everything we do.