Susan Pagella - RTS
Registration No: 00058

Susan Pagella is an independent therapist with psychotherapy practices in Central London and near Lymington, Hampshire. She has experience in working with a wide range of issues and has special interests around trauma, particularly relating to the legacy of political aggression / genocide.

Additionally, Susan currently has a role within Education as Refugee Adviser, within Children’s Services and Learning, and manages a small team of mediators.

Prior to training in counselling and psychotherapy, Susan has lived and worked within education abroad, in W. Africa, N. Africa, the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia- and the Far East and has been involved in the field of therapy for a decade. Latterly, her work has included approximately five years in the area of trauma, with patients affected by the Balkans war, and also those from the Congo, Ethiopia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Turkish Kurds. She is experienced in working through an interpreter when necessary.

During 2005 Susan spent two weeks in Phuket, post Tsunami- in a consultancy/support role with the Phuket Childline ‘Saidek Caravan’ project, supporting and training teams of young people and accompanying them to outlying schools affected by the Tsunami, plus, carrying out an audit of trauma regarding the residual affects re children and teaching staff at the target schools, which formed part of her report.

In 2006, Susan read a short paper as participant in a workshop: ‘Researching Migration and Mental Health’ Compas-University of Oxford Centre for Population Studies, entitled ‘Women, Terror and Survival- in a Patriarchal Society’ based on her experiences in working with issues relating to the Balkans war attrocities

Following the award of M.A. in Education,( inc. CAES Couns in Ed.) an H.E Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling and an MSc ‘Psychotherapy and Counselling As a Means to Health,’ Susan was awarded an M.A. ‘The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy’, plus a Certificate ‘Understanding Trauma: Principles and Practice’, both from the Tavistock Centre, London. She is currently a member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists-TSP (Affiliate Adult Psychotherapist Division) plus MBACP & RSM (assoc. membership).She maintains links with the Tavistock, attending relevant conferences; seminars etc.