THE HOMA TEAM
We are the people who will teach and support you at Homa
As a team, we have years of personal experience and knowledge as psychotherapists. We run our own successful practices, working with individuals, couples, young people and groups. We are all committed to our own ongoing personal growth and development and life-long learning.
We are a professional community, many of us have known each other for decades. For some of us, our connection extends as far back as our formative psychotherapy training years. We are also continuing to grow and evolve as a team. We are committed to bringing in more tutors from diverse backgrounds to better represent our trainees and to offer a broader and more diverse range of lived experiences and perspectives.
We are at our best when we work as part of a team. Homa is the culmination of a life-long pursuit for connection and purpose; creating a community of like minded professionals, working together to empower ourselves and those who dream of becoming psychotherapists.
We want to see you grow and succeed. Running Homa and training psychotherapists isn’t just what we do for a living; it's what we love, it's what we live, it's who we are.
MEET OUR TUTORS
I ran my first group in 2000. A psycho-educational workshop for women exploring their relationship with food and their bodies. As I sat in the first session, I knew that I had landed in my professional home. For the first time I felt completely confident, congruent and delighted by my work.
I find writing and leading psycho-educational and therapeutic groups exciting and moving. This work challenges me to be the very best of myself, to be present and to connect with people in a way that is deeply satisfying.
I rose through the management ranks at Marks and Spencer in the 80s and worked as a secondary school teacher in the 90s Read more ...
Jane Fraser
(she/her)
Founding Partner & Course Tutor
UKCP (Accred) MBACP (Accred)
Prior to becoming a psychotherapist I worked in technology ranging from the introduction of the first breast screening systems in the NHS to the first SMS text messaging to Radio 1. I really belonged, I liked what good technology changes could bring.
It was after I started personal therapy I began to realise I was loving my head but missing my heart.
I’m an observer and I recall watching with interest how therapists engaged with clients and with me. How did they know what to do? Just as I would look at technology for practical solutions I started to look at therapeutic solutions for what wasn’t working in my personal life... Read more ...
I was born with a furious desire to move forward, run wild and be the sole leader of my life. I have always felt an enormous pull towards meaning, beauty and truth.
From the age of seven I trained as a classical dancer while having an academic education in Rome, my native city. Dancing trained me in precision, attention to detail and a deep respect for the body. Dancing taught me that knowledge, creativity and intelligence don’t come from the brain alone but from the entire body
My education instilled in me the love of learning and the pursuit of meaning as well as a strong work ethic, discipline and seriousness. Read more ...
I am an art psychotherapist with 18 years of experience in community development, professional photography and television broadcast. I design and lead the creative approach to Homa’s Anti Racism programme. As an established film maker I have made documentaries for the BBC and Channel Four covering a range of themes including immigration, race and internet child pornography. I am proud that I was able to part of the team that made the BAFTA award winning series 'The Tower: A Tale of Two Cities'. Read more
Over the past 20 years, I have undertaken training in psychotherapy, anger management, leadership and parenting coaching alongside my previous full time job in IT consulting. I completed the Diploma in Person-Centred Psychotherapeutic Counselling at Metanoia in May 2023.
In 1999 I participated in The Mankind Project, an intense men’s personal development weekend. From that experience, I discovered my passion for working with parents, supporting them with their parenting challenges. I have been running parenting groups and working with couples and individuals since 2008.
I design and co-lead Homa Ecotherapy programme. Nature has always been my greatest teacher and companion. I would slip away from school to wade thigh deep in a nearby stream, utterly absorbed and content to meander for hours in secret correspondence with that earthly cosmology. I make sense to myself when I am outside and the world makes sense again. As the poet Mary Oliver says, ‘For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple’ Read more...
MEET OUR GUEST TUTORS
Neil Young
(they/them)
Guest Tutor
I am part of the tutor team designing and leading the Homa Sex, Sexuality & Gender programme.
I am a dreamer and a grafter – an optimist who loves to imagine new ways of
doing things and then find ways to make this happen. I am also driven by a desire to live in a more just, humane and loving world.
Over the years I have been a trainer/facilitator, photographer, stand-up comedian, project- event-research-and youth-work manager and queer community advocate: in 1999 I founded Mosaic LGBT+ Young Person’s Trust in northwest London and I worked as an LGBT advisor for the first two Mayors of London.
Audrey Boss
(she/her)
Training Co-ordinator & Guest Tutor
I have been working as a coach for 20 years as well as teaching Open Floor embodied movement practice since 2015.
In a previous life I ran my own event production company and I freelanced as a project manager on international R&D projects.
I enjoy putting all the skills I have developed to good use, ensuring that the Homa training runs smoothly.
As a movement teacher, I also bring awareness through the moving the body into the training.
I will be your Read more ...
MEET OUR VISITING TUTORS
Dr Gillian Proctor
(she/her)
Visiting Tutor
I facilitate an annual session for Homa on the dynamics of power in psychotherapy and counselling. I am delighted to contribute to a programme that is so focused on the relevance of societal positioning and inequalities of identities to counselling. I am passionate about the ethics and politics of counselling and believe that philosophy and sociology are a crucial foundation to the ongoing development of self and intersubjective awareness needed to practice as a psychotherapist.
I completed my training as a clinical psychologist in 1996 and found a more natural home in the person-centred psychotherapy community, locally, nationally and internationally. I completed my doctorate thesis on power in therapy in 1999 and consequently authored a book on the subject. My ongoing passions continued to develop and are charted through my writing on: feminism, politics, critiquing Borderline Personality Disorder, the ethics of practice in various NHS contexts, encounter groups, relational pedagogical approaches and anti-racist education.
My work in counselling education and practice is increasingly informed and connected with other aspects of my life, including my involvement in music, parenting a teenager and walking with my dog. I play the oboe in an orchestra, the baritone horn in a brass band and conduct a queer tea dance band.
Dr Kit Hayam
(they/he)
Visiting Tutor
I’m a writer, heritage practitioner and trans awareness trainer, and I lead trans awareness sessions as part of the Homa Sex, Sexuality & Gender programme.
I’ve been developing bespoke trans awareness sessions since 2015, shortly after I came out as non-binary. I’m motivated by a passion for finding the clearest and most accessible ways to communicate knotty and complex concepts, and by a desire to help people think differently about the relationship between gender, bodies and society in relation to themselves and others – something I think is essential not only for trans liberation, but for everyone’s liberation. My workshops will invite you to reflect on these ideas in your second year, and to consider how to apply them in therapeutic contexts in your third year.
I spent six years in academia, working in literature and history, before forging a freelance career after becoming a parent. My writing and heritage work aims to unlock new, more expansive ways to think and talk about queer and trans history. I’m the author of Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender, which was a History Today book of the year and a nominee for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction. You can find out more about my heritage work on my website.
Caroline Shabaz
(she/her)
Visiting Tutor
My name is Caroline Shahbaz, and I am known in the Master slave communities as “slave Caroline” My journey is driven by a profound passion for serving with clarity, strength, and authenticity. With a foundation in clinical psychology, I proudly identify as a Jungian, depth, and liberation psychologist. My diverse roles extend beyond academia and clinical practice to include business, management consulting, authorship, education, and spiritual exploration.
Born in Ethiopia, a third generation Armenian genocide survivor, I bring a unique cross-cultural and international perspective in life and on MS dynamics.
Over the years, I have delivered over 200 workshops at kink events across the USA and Australia.
My mission has become more urgent: to end the stigmatization and pathologizing of BDSM practitioners by professionals. In 2016, I coauthored "Becoming a Kink-Aware Therapist," the first book of its kind aimed at mental health professionals, published by Routledge.
In 2018, we launched www.kinkknowledgeable.com offering extensive courses for professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of kink. In 2019 I was a founder member in the development of best practice clinical guidelines for the American Psychological Association and continue to educate psychotherapists worldwide.
Dr Aileen Alleyne
External Social Justice Consultant Supervisor & Visiting Tutor
I am a UKCP registered psychodynamic psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and organisational consultant. In addition to running my private practice, I am a visiting lecturer at several training institutions and a consultant on issues of race and cultural diversity within various workplace settings, such as the NHS, Social Services, Education, and the Police Services.
My clinical research examining black workers’ experiences in three institutional settings, makes a significant contribution to the discourse on race. Read more...
Patmarie Coleman
Team Supervisor