Who We Are

Team Building Consultancy

Our aim is to help teams work more effectively

Who We Are
5th September 2010 
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For North and East London
call Kim Spicer:
07739 643873


For South and West London
call Charlotte
Wynn Parry:
07969 732641

 
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Who We Are #01

Charlotte Wynn Parry and Kim Spicer


We have been working with teams for many years: facilitating team building; running staff support groups and creating and running workshops in various settings such as alcohol and drug agencies, the NHS and education and training establishments.

We both have MAs in organisational consultancy from the Tavistock Clinic and University of East London and are also UKCP registered psychotherapists.




Our consultancy work has included:-


A mental health charity
We devised a series of specific away days for a team that was undergoing changes in working practices.

An independent advice network
Provided a time limited series of team consultancy sessions with the Senior Management Team to manage a period of change and expansion.

A residential school
Provided a time limited series of team consultancy sessions to facilitate a team experiencing loss and change.

An alcohol and drugs agency
Worked with 3 teams sharing a workspace to facilitate collaboration and communication.

Individual consultations
with managers from various organisations



Our backgrounds:


Charlotte began her career in the arts, in editorial and management, and has maintained a keen interest in this area.

Her psychotherapy work started in the field of addictions. After completing her training in 1980s, she worked in the voluntary sector in various agencies, with both groups and individuals, alongside building up a private practice. In the 1990's her experience in working with addictions led her to take up posts as clinical supervisor in various drug and alcohol agencies and also in the out patient eating disorders clinic at St. George's Hospital, Tooting.

Over the years of working with staff teams in agencies her work expanded to include staff team facilitation and development. This became a particular area of interest which she wanted to develop and so undertook the Masters course in organisational consultancy and set up practice as a consultant over the last few years.

Her working life has also included taking on the role of chair and vice chair in several organisations: the most recent being co- chair of the accreditation committee of FIP (Forum for Independent Psychotherapists.)

Education has been another strand of Charlotte's experience. She has tutored and trained students in various counselling trainings and was an external assessor for WPF for 10 years.




Kim initially trained as a registered nurse and worked in a variety of settings. In 1990's she re trained as a counsellor and has an MSc in psychodynamic counselling from Birkbeck College London University. Following this she went on to train as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at The Guild of Psychotherapists.

Kim has provided counselling in two university counselling services and in a mental health setting. She was the staff counsellor at a London teaching hospital and during this period she provided group consultancy to two staff teams.

At present Kim works as a senior manager in a mental health charity, where she manages a large team of voluntary counsellors, supervisors and administrative staff. She is a training and staff supervisor at Highgate Counselling Centre where she is a member of the Training Committee. She is also a lecturer in higher education, teaching a counselling course at Birkbeck College. She has been a staff member on the yearly Group Relations Conference at the college.

Kim is an Accredited MBTI practitioner. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Step I is the most widely used personality assessment.

After training at the Tavistock in organisational consultancy Kim has been working as an organisational consultant. She became particularly interested in the application of Attachment Theory to the study of organisations. This led her to undertake a professional doctorate and she is currently a student at the Tavistock Clinic.