Staff Profiles: Dawley Centre

WENDY BARNETT Head (IV) Occupational Therapist.
I've worked at the Telford centre (when it was called 'The Mount' and based in Wellington) since 1986. My current groupwork includes Psychotherapy, Relaxation, a Psychodrama group and Anxiety Management. I use a client-centred approach when working with individuals. I'm currently on a 2-year CAT (Cognitive-Analytic Therapy) training. I've previously been involved with Psychodrama and Child Sexual Abuse groups.

FIONA HUSS
I work full-time at The Dawley Centre as Manager. My background is in mental health nursing
and I see people on an individual and group basis. Although I have a particular interest in
bereavement and work as a volunteer with CRUSE , I see people who have a wide range of
emotional difficulties. My approach is eclectic in that I draw from a range of different psycholo-
gical approaches in my work. I facilitate 2 groups. The first involves working with men who have
a combination of mental health difficulties and physical problems. The second group focuses
on people who have a variety of mental health problems related to a variety of causes such as
relationship problems, bereavement and childhood abuse.

GRAHAME MORGAN, Counsellor and Trainee Psychotherapist
Grahame is a registered mental health nurse and gained wide experience in general psychiatry before going on to train as a psychodynamic counsellor with The Westminster Pastoral Foundation. He is currently training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with the West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy.

JOHN WESTHEAD
John Westhead works at the Dawley centre 2 days a week, spending the rest of the week as
a lecturer at Staffordshire University School of Health. John has a mental health nursing back-
ground and works with people on both an individual and group basis. He is a former nurse
specialist in substance misuse but now sees people with a variety of emotional difficulties.
John's teaching interests include substance misuse, clinical supervision and helping nurses
respond to people's emotional concerns.