About

AEDAA is run as an unincorporated association by an elected committee meeting regularly throughout the year. Link to constitution

Meet the Team

Tina Abbott
Jane Cato
Sharan Collins
Jonathan Egan
Nicola Neath
Joanna Stevens

Honorary Patron
Una McCluskey

Tina Abbott

Tina is a BACP Registered and Senior Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist and Senior Accredited Supervisor with over 35 years experience in various settings including private practice, the NHS, Further and Higher Education, and in the charitable sector. She also has significant experience in service management. She currently works in private practice as a psychotherapist, supervisor, institutional consultant and group facilitator.

Jane Cato

Jane is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and supervisor and MBACP with over 30 years experience working within public and voluntary organisations and in independent practice. She has a wealth of experience working within healthcare, life threatening illness, death, dying and bereavement, with a particular interest in integrating psychodynamic, humanistic, existential, attachment and bodywork practice. She is currently working in independent practice offering psychotherapy, supervision, training and consultancy to individuals, couples, groups and teaches at The Bowlby Centre.

Sharan Collins

Sharan Collins is an experienced professionally qualified psychodynamic psychotherapist, supervisor and group facilitator. She has previously worked in the voluntary sector as a therapist and in the establishment and management of a counselling centre in the charity sector and in higher education. She is currently a core trainer and professional programmes director on the PG Diploma in Counselling at the University of Edinburgh and chair of The Sutherland Trust which is a trust that exists to stimulate and promote psychodynamic thinking in all aspects of life, personal and professional. She has a particular interest in the relationship between shame, silence and trauma.

Jonathan Egan

Jonathan Egan MA, MPsychSc, PsyD, began training with Una McCluskey in 2011 and is a member of an advanced EGCP training group. He is currently co-facilitating a training group with Una in Slovakia.
He was a director of a clinical psychology programme at University of Galway (2012-2023). His clinical work uses the EGCP model in relation to ‘being met as a person in Intensive Care’. Previously, he was a Director of Counselling for adults who experienced childhood abuse, subsequently becoming Principal Clinical Psychologist at the Mater Hospital, Dublin. He authors in relation to how a caregiver’s childhood trauma/neglect, attachment and defence styles affect their current vitality and wellbeing. Jonathan is also a practitioner member of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA).

Nicola Neath

Nicola Neath is a Psychotherapist, Author, Co-Chair of the Mental Health Subgroup for the national Council for Work and Health; and Executive member of BACP Workplace Division. With extensive experience across the public and private sectors, Nicola has held a variety of professional roles throughout her career. Nicola offers psychotherapy, supervision, training, workshops, groupwork and coaching. Significant contributions to the field include publications on the workplace application of the McCluskey Model on Attachment Dynamics (To be Met as a Person at Work), and Relational Ethics. Her expertise is also reflected in several articles authored for BACP journals. She is deeply passionate about integrating psychological perspectives in her work, ultimately benefiting employees and the broader organisational environment.

Joanna Stevens

Joanna Stevens is a HCPC registered Art Therapist, educator and artist. Alongside holding senior leadership roles in the NHS, she trained extensively in the McCluskey Model. Joanna has a particular interest in making contemporary attachment theory accessible. She founded the Graphic Attachment project in 2020 and works with therapeutic comics and art making to support human development, vitality and wellbeing. She has published on the role of the arts in mental health recovery and the relational potential of drawing. Her current work extends outside into the natural environment and the interplay between growing and healing, care for the land and care for ourselves.

Una McCluskey - Honorary Patron

Una McCluskey PhD, was a Senior Lecturer and later a Senior Research Fellow at the University of York, United Kingdom, now retired. She was a member of the psychoanalytic and systemic sections of the UKCP for nearly 30 years and is now retired. She is known nationally and internationally for her contribution to theory and practice in relation to the Dynamics of Attachment in Adult Life. She has published numerous articles and books in the field of couple, family and group psychotherapy as author, co-author or editor.

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