Archives: Team

Dr Tony Garelick was formerly Associate Dean at MedNet, London Deanery and Co-Director of the former MedNet service (closed 2015), which was a confidential clinical service for doctors in difficulty. Dr Garelick was a Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust. He has written various papers on psychotherapy and on the MedNet clinical service and its clinical impact. He is currently Director of the new service .

Dr William Burbridge-James, MBBS FRCPsych is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Medical Psychotherapy in Essex, and a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in private practice. He has been involved in the training of psychiatrists throughout his consultant career as Psychotherapy tutor and Training Program Director, and with the Royal College of Psychiatrists as a member and chair of the faculty of Medical Psychotherapy Specialty Advisory Committee. He has extensive psychotherapeutic clinical experience working with a wide range of mental health difficulties.He is currently Director of the new service .

Dr Peter Shoenberg MA MB BChir MRCP(UK) FRCPsych is a Senior Member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation (Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association) and Honorary Consultant Psychotherapist at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. He was formerly Head of the UCLH Psychotherapy Service.He is currently Director of the new service .

Dr Julia Bland was formerly Co-Director of the MedNet service and is an honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. She also belongs to the Queen Anne Street Psychotherapy Practice and is a practising Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and family and couples therapist.

Maria is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Medical Psychotherapy and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist trained at the Tavistock Clinic where she was a Visiting Lecturer 2008-2016 and a member of the MedNet team from 2010-2013. She joined DocHealth in 2018 and served as its clinical director 2022-2023. She has an interest in childhood trauma and, in addition to the developmental and relational approach, she uses elements of MBT, DBT and coaching if indicated. She has a small private practice for doctors.

 

Dr Stella Newrith is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust covering the Buckinghamshire area. Prior to this she was Programme Director for the Buckinghamshire Complex Needs Service. She has been involved in training resident doctors throughout her consultant career. As well as working for DocHealth she also has a small private practice.

Dr Yamini Ram is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Medical Psychotherapy with Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. She trained as Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in British Psychotherapy Foundation, London. She is also a psychotherapy tutor involved in teaching and training doctors in East Midlands Deanery. Also facilitating reflective practice groups for trainees and consultants in the NHS. Dr Ram is working in DocHealth and a small private practice.

Dr Catherine Smith is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Medical Psychotherapy based within the Wessex Deanery and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust where she is the Psychotherapy Tutor, responsible for the psychotherapy training of the Wessex psychiatry trainees as well as running a variety of reflective practice activities for a range of staff. She worked within the Mednet service from 2012-2015. She is the Regional Representative for Wessex at the Medical Psychotherapy faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She trained in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and uses a psychoanalytic approach to her work with both individual patients and groups.

Sandra was Consultant in General and Old Age Psychiatry at East London Foundation NHS Trust and Associate Dean for Psychiatry. She has recently retired from her post as Deputy Dean for Students at Barts & the London School of Medicine and Dentistry. She is trained as a Group Analyst and has a small private practice.

Dr Sarah Majid is a Counsultant Medical Psychotherapist based in London, working in the NHS and in private practice.