Therapists
Altogether there are about 40 counsellors and psychotherapists working at the Pottery Road Centre from a variety of different approaches and backgrounds. We are very proud of the standard of therapy and counselling that takes place at the Centre. See our pages on Counselling for more details of prices, and how to make an appointment.

Trainers
We have a very experienced team of trainers involved with the Integrative Gestalt counselling training programme. They make an incredible contribution to the work at the Centre and the relationships they form with the students on their courses are part of what marks out our training as being of such a high quality; according to the feedback we receive from our students. All of them are currently working in practice themselves, see below for more details of some of our team. We also have specialist visiting trainers, such as Peter Fantini, Rachel Kent, and others.

Staff at the Office
Bob Smith, Deborah Williams, Asif, Dot, Anna, Judy; Annette

"I have to pinch myself sometimes to believe how much I value working in this area. I'm constantly moved by the way people take risks and really move on in their lives."

Bob managed the counselling training programme for 200 students at a Midlands College of F.E. and H.E. up to 1995 before leaving to work full time on developing the Centre's advanced training programme. He has completed his Masters in Gestalt Psychotherapy, to add to a Masters in Human Relations and Counselling. He has also completed a research project on the uses and abuses of online therapy across the world.

Deborah Williams
Deb runs the Centre with Bob and is the face most people get to know first as she interviews all those people coming into the first year counselling training courses. She combines her Centre role as a co-director with her work for a large Education Service as an advisory teacher with a Lead Officer role for mental/emotional health in schools.

Administrative Support
Dot, Judy and Anna are the part-time Administrators at the Centre providing invaluable support to Bob and Deb. They all also work as counsellors in private practice.

Finances
Asif and Annette both work part-time looking after the accounts and finances between them. Asif offers help with accounts freelance - if you would be interested in contacting him please do so through the office.

Bob Smith
As course director for the Diploma in Counselling Bob completes all the interviews at this level. He set up the co-counselling network in Birmingham, developed and ran the 200 strong counselling training programme at a Midlands College before moving full-time to develop the Centre. He has also run courses in Skyros, Greece.

Dave Mann
Dave is a very experienced Gestalt psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer from Nottingham. In 2006 he was appointed assistant editor of the internationally regarded British Gestalt Journal.

Debs Mendham
Debs is one of our Certificate Tutors, Debs is an experienced trainer, a UKCP-registered psychotherapist and a supervisor. She has also worked extensively in social services.

Graham Colbourne Graham is an experienced trainer, group facilitator, and UKCP registered Gestalt Psychotherapist. He is established in private practice working with short term and long term clients and ongoing therapy groups as well as lecturing, training and consultancy. He has been involved in group and humanistic potential work since 1975 and is committed to his ongoing personal and professional development. Creativity, dance, music and spirituality are important to him in his work and life. He is currently running the second year of the Diploma and also works as a supervisor. He is currently Chair of Ethics for the GPTI (Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Institute).