After Julian completed his Psychiatry and Adult Psychotherapy training at the Maudsley Hospital London, UK., for the next 17 years-until September 2012- he was the Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at St Mark’s Hospital, Harrow where he built up and headed their unique Psychological Medicine Unit. He has taught internationally and published widely in Gastroenterology, Nursing, Surgical and Psychiatry journals.

In addition, in 2010 he was appointed as a Consultant at the Tavistock Clinic in London, where he is now Head of Psychiatry in the Adult Department. Since April 2016 he has been Director of Adult and Forensic services, at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. He has published widely and has co-edited 2 popular textbooks “Core Psychiatry” (Wright, Stern and Phelan, now in its 3rd edition); and “Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: A biopsychosocial approach” (Knowles, Stern, Hebbard) (2017).

Particular fields of expertise include:
• Psychological and psychiatric symptoms in medically ill patients
• Psychological and psychiatric symptoms following surgery / complications of surgery
• Depression, anxiety, trauma and eating disorders in adults, especially with medical/ GI conditions

Julian has always enjoyed working closely with specialist GI Nurses and spoken at various nursing conferences including NECCO, UK IBD nursing meetings, ASCN (Stoma), and biofeedback courses/conferences.

Gareth works as a Clinical Psychologist for The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, in a service called the Team Around the Practice (TAP). We are based in GP surgeries around Camden, providing psychodynamically informed assessment, therapy and GP consultation for complex patients in primary care, including those with chronic physical health conditions.

He is particularly interested in the links between bodily symptoms and psychological distress and the way in which this distress can impact upon clinical staff. As a researcher, he has worked with nursing teams on a gastrointestinal ward at UCLH to explore barriers to optimal pain management, and have published articles on psychological approaches to functional bowel disorders and nursing education interventions for pain.

As a clinician, he has found mindfulness-based therapies to be clinically useful in a range of settings, both as stand-alone treatments and as part of broader interventions.

Dr Mahadevan is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at Team Around the Practice, a primary care psychotherapy service based in Camden.

She has trained in general adult psychiatry and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and has worked extensively in Group Relations Conferences.

Marcus Evans is a Psychoanalyst and Consultant Adult Psychotherapist. He was the first nurse appointed in a senior post at the Tavistock and Portman clinic and held the role as head of nursing for twenty years.

He worked as a clinical nurse specialist in liaison psychiatry and head of the nurse lead parasuicide team at Kings College hospital in the 1980’s. His book, “Making Room for Madness in Mental Health: the psychoanalytic understanding of psychotic communications” was published in 2016.

Claire is a Mental Health Nurse with approx. twenty years’ experience of both clinical work and providing teaching and training to nurses. She trained at the Nightingale Institute (Kings College London) and pursued an interest in working psychodynamically with patients. She has extensive experience of working with patients who self-harm and developed an interest in the relationship between the patient’s history, mind and body. As well as teaching, she is currently working as a psychotherapist and is the Lead Nurse for Nursing Development and Research and Head of Nursing for the Adult and Forensic Services at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.