SECTION: Process Work Therapists & Facilitators
Dr Arnold Mindell
Arny Mindell, Ph. D.(Psychology) and an MSc. (Physics) is in private practice in Portland Oregon. After many years as a Jungian training analyst, he wrote his first book – ‘The Dreambody’ – and developed, with colleagues, Process Oriented Psychology. He is the author of numerous books which have been translated into sixteen languages. He has taught and worked all over the world.
Dr Amy Mindell
Amy Mindell, Ph. D., dipl. PW., is in private therapy practice in Portland Or., and has worked in over thirty countries in the world, and has helped develop process oriented psychology in the areas of ethics, philosophy and dance.
Jean-Claude Audergon
Jean-Claude Audergon, Liz. Phil. I (Uni Zuerich), dipl. PW. I practice in London with individuals, couples, organizations and communities. A co-founder of the UK Training Program, I teach and apply Process Work and World Work (conflict resolution) internationally for students and people interested in its wide spectrum applications.
Dr Arlene Audergon
Arlene Audergon ( PhD, Dipl Process Work) works in the fields of conflict resolution, psychotherapy and theatre. She teaches Process Work in the UK and internationally, and with her husband Jean-Claude, is co-founder of CFOR, supporting community forums in conflict zones and diverse communities. Topics range from post-war issues to building multi-cultural and diverse societies, and community mental health.
Margaret Godwin
Margaret Godwin BA, PWDipl. Margaret is a co-founder member of RSPOPUK and is based in Warwickshire. She works with individuals and couples and facilitates painting workshops for a variety of client groups including the physically challenged, using Process Work. She has a passionate interest in researching and working on the interface between creativity and Process Work and explores paintings of inner and outer landscapes and somatised dreaming images. Her own paintings are exhibited and she has had many solo exhibitions.
Evelyn Figueroa
Evelyn Figueroa dipl.PW., has been studying Process Work since 1990 and is now a diploma holder. She is currently developing a private practice in Paris. She is also a Yoga and meditation teacher and a student of T.K.V. Desikachar, who is a Yoga teacher living in Madras, India. She is especially interested in exploring how inner processes manifest and unfold in our bodies and movement, and how they are related to relationship and world issues. The combination of Yoga and Process Work create a unique framework to study the links between body, mind and the world.
Susan Kocen
Susan Kocen, Dip.Process Work (Portland) has recently returned to live in London after 21 years living overseas, 10 of them in Oregon. She has had an on going private practice since graduating in 2005 and works with individuals, couples and families. She is inspired and
fascinated by the unpredictability of everyday life, the pulls and
pushes of our dreaming processes and the spirit of process as teacher.
Sally Olsberg
Sally Olsberg, dipl.PW., holds the Diploma in Process Work and has been a therapist in private practice in Manchester and Hebden Bridge since 1987 and was an astrologer for many years. Her special interest now is working with people who identify as having addictions and addictive tendencies. She is currently researching and writing about the process oriented approach to addictions on the individual, relationship and collective levels. She lives in the country and finds her inspiration from the trees and rivers around her.
Pat Black
Dip. PW, B.Sc., Dip. COT, is a Process Worker and co-founder of Diversity Matters. She works across the UK offering consultancy, family and one to one work.
Ellen Schupbach - Visiting Teacher
Ellen Schupbach, Ph.D., is a new PW diplomat who lives half of the year in Oregon, working as a therapist. She has been travelling with her partner, Max, assisting in seminars, and is just beginning to teach. She has recently completed her Ph.D. on the therapist’s spiritual experience while following a client’s process, and is now on a path of learning to apply the concepts in her work.
Max Schupbach - Visiting Teacher
Max Schupbach, Ph.D., dipl.PW., lives half of the year in Oregon, where he teaches at the Process Work Center. The other half of the year, he travels with his partner Ellen, teaching Process Work in over 30 countries. He is a co-founder of the first Process Work Center in Switzerland, the Process Work Center of Portland, and of many other Process Work training programs worldwide, including the UK, Australia, Japan, Canada, and many programs in the US and Europe.
Gary Reiss - Visiting Teacher
Gary Reiss holds a Masters in Social Work, a Ph.D and is a certified trainer in Process oriented Psychology. He has a private practice in Eugene and Portland, Oregon, and directs a clinic in a small town in Oregon. Gary has been in practice and teaching for twenty-seven years. He teaches process work worldwide.
Mark O’Connell
Mark O’Connell, dipl.PW (Zurich). dipl FT. (Family Systems Therapy University of Plymouth). I have a private practice near Manningtree, Essex, where I work with individuals, young people and families as well as offering supervision for practising therapists.
Conor McKenna
Conor McKenna. Dip POP … Conor, a founder member of RSPOPUK is Financial Coordinator and a member of Faculty for the RSPOPUK School. He works in private practice in Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders and facilitates individuals, couples and groups in both the UK and in Europe. He is deeply interested in the transpersonal and other non-local events which bring connectedness and meaning into our lives.
Conor writes about the journey between inner and outer realities. See details of his writing in the full bio.
Jan Dworkin - Visiting Teacher
Jan Dworkin, Ph.D. is a certified process worker living in Portland, Oregon. She works as a teacher, therapist and group facilitator and conducts training workshops internationally. She specializes in group process and conflict facilitation, relationship work and sexuality. Jan is currently writing a memoir about her journey in process work as a spiritual path. She is also a painter who tries to bring out the deepest essence behind a human face on her large colorful canvases. Jan follows the unpredictable direction of the spirit in whatever she does.
Julie Diamond - Visiting Teacher
Julie Diamond, Ph.D. Diploma in Process-oriented Psychology, RS-POP. Julie’s interests include training and education in Process Work, furthering research, and developing bridges between Process Work and other disciplines and organizations.
Edna Holt
Edna is a Process Work Diplomate in the UK and a founding member of RSPOPUK. She has spent all her working life in education. She holds a Diploma in TEFL. She is involved in Bristol in facilitating Process Work Open Forums in Diversity. She also spent 4 years working with people in Coma and recovering from Coma.
Clare Hill
Clare Hill dipl.PW.,has always been searching for the meaning behind situations, and after training as a speech and language therapist, her studies led her to Process Work. Clare currently has a private practice, and she particularly enjoys working with couples together with her partner Conor McKenna. Her work with people with communication difficulties, and the professionals and carers involved, includes bringing a different, more process-like approach to these long term conditions. Now living in beautiful countryside south of Edinburgh, Clare is endeavouring to allow the hills and clouds and birds around her to inform the nature of what she is doing.
Gill Emslie
Gill Emslie Dip PW is an experienced facilitator, drawing on her training in Process Work and skills developed in the Findhorn Foundation Community and ecovillage where she lives and works She recently qualified as a diplomate in Process Work and is delighted to include this in her biography. She works both as a psychotherapist and organizational consultant and trainer working with individuals and groups in the business and voluntary sectors in Europe and Latin America.
Jill Brierley
Jill Brierley M.A. dipl.PW, Integrative Arts Psychotherapist and Process Oriented Psychotherapist with UKCP and NAPCP registration. Private practitioner working with individuals and couples including teaching and facilitating group dynamics in community and organisations in the UK and Ireland.
Charleen Agostini
Charleen Agostini Dipl. PW, lives and works in Bristol where she runs a practice for individual clients. Other areas of interest and practice are to do with community forums that facilitate interaction that furthers sustainable and creative community, especially in the area of cultural diversity. A new research area for Charleen is to do with the relationship between child and parent focussing on the creative potential for both parent and child. She is also part of the faculty of Process Work in the UK, as well as playing an active part in the running of the organisation. At the heart of Process Work for Charleen it is the deep dreaming level that continues to sustain and enliven her life and practice.
Andy Smith - Phase II Student
Andy Smith B.Sc. is a Phase II Student of Process Work. He provides consultancy, training and other supports to social work, health and voluntary sector organisations. He runs diversity-matters.co.uk with his partner Pat Black.
