Meet our visiting tutors and trainers
Introducing the Connexus visiting tutors
Dr Helena Hargaden
Visiting Tutor
DPsych, MSc, TSTA(P).
In 2007, Helena was one of the recipients of the Eric Berne Memorial Award for the Domains of Transference, which recognised the evolutionary movement towards relational theory in transactional analysis. Her most recent publication reflects the major theoretical changes within TA, as we move through the 21st century.
Karen Minikin
Visiting Tutor
MSc in TA Psychotherapy, CTA(P), TSTA(P)
Karen Minikin is a counsellor, psychotherapist and a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst with a practice in Devon and West Somerset. She teaches psychotherapy at a number of training institutes within the UK and Europe and has presented at national and international conferences. She is interested in the conscious and unconscious dynamics of power, politics and relational dynamics across all four fields of Transactional Analysis, though her writing focuses on the psychotherapy field.
Rachel Cook
Visiting Tutor
TSTA (P), MSc, MA, PGCE
Rachel is passionate about group work, specialising in relationship therapy in her private practice in the New Forest. She is Senior Lecturer and Primary TA Tutor at a London TA training centre and has been an educator for 30 years. She is passionate about co-creative relational training, supervision and clinical work, striving to use her humanity, humour, integrity and authentic self in all aspects of her work.
Emma Waring
Trainer, Consultant
BSc (Hons) Critical Care, RGN, Post Graduate Dip Psychosexual Therapy, Dip Transactional Analysis Counselling
Emma was awarded the Nursing Times ‘Rising Star Award ’ in 2004, gaining national and international recognition for her work setting up a pioneering clinic treating erectile dysfunction in cardiac patients, at Guys and St Thomas Hospital’s. She is a highly regarded Psychosexual and Relationship specialist. In 2018 Emma also became a published author on the subject of sex and intimacy. Her extensive knowledge and easily accessible approach gives our Connexus students access to a specialist understanding and skills of working with the sensitivities of sex, sexual difficulties, and their impact on relationships.
Annette Jones
Visiting Tutor and Trainer
Annette Jones is a highly respected couples therapist who works with those who want to improve the quality of their,relationships, as well as those facing divorce, separation or relationship crisis. As a trainer, Annette’s energy and passion for this stimulating and rewarding area of therapy shines through as she guides others in how to navigate the sensitivities of infidelity, intimacy, sex, passion, money, arguments, abuse, abandonment and other key issues that can arise between couples.
Jonathan Lake
Visiting Tutor
MSc TA Psychotherapy, BSc Psychology, CTA (P), PTSTA (P), UKCP Registered Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Supervising Transactional Analyst (STA).
Jonathan is widely respected as a trainer and tutor and is a highly experienced facilitator of supervision training. He works for several leading educational institutes and corporations, the latter focusing on workplace stress, trauma, and disaster recovery. He works as Facebook’s onsite psychotherapist and supervises at Freedom from Torture. n his private practice in East and North-West London he is particularly interested in couples work, bereavement, and developmental trauma.
Louise Rooney
Visiting Tutor and Trainer
Dip Couns (CBT), Dip. Ed (Warwick), ISVA (Adv)
Currently Head of Wellbeing and Personal Development at Solihull School in the Midlands, Louise’s background is in counselling, teaching, and training in the NHS, education, social services, military mental health, the criminal justice system, College of Policing, and charitable sector around key themes of mental health and wellbeing, vulnerability, resilience, trauma, diversity, and counsellor training (OCN). In her private practice, she has worked with children and adults, couples, and family groups across a range of therapeutic themes. As an Independent Sexual Violence Advocate, Louise has also supported victims of crime and witnesses through the reporting process and in court.