Conference Schedule
Workshop ZOOM Streams
Speaker Bios
09:30 - 10:15 Conference Opening
10:15 - 10:45
3 Short Presentations to help you decide your choice of morning workshops
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Morning Workshops
- Complexities of Perinatal Mental Health – the personal & political
- Intricacies of Fertility
- The Existential: Loss, Grief and Death
12:30 - 12:45 Regroup together to reconnect
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 - 14:30
3 Short Presentations to help you decide on your afternoon workshops
14:30 - 14:45 Break
14:45 - 16:15 Afternoon Workshops
- Fathers and Masculinity
- Couples and Family Dynamics (grandparents)
- Normativity and Expectations, including Matrescence and Rage
16:15 - 16:20 Break
00 Regroup Together, Closing Themes, Gratitude, & Thanks
MORNING WORKSHOPS
Complexities of Perinatal Mental Health – the personal & political - Mihaela -Leocadia Hartescu & Valeria Villa
Intricacies of Fertility - Sarah Crowley
The Existential: Loss, Grief and Death - Isa Delannoy
AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS
Fathers and Masculinity - Oliver Hunt
Couples and Family Dynamics (grandparents)
- Panel of Valeria Villa, Mihaela-leocadia Hartescu, Emma Haynes and Sarah Crowley
Normativity and Expectations, including Matrescence and Rage - Lynne Ball and Henrietta Rose
Mihaela-Leocadia Hartescu (she/her) is a psychologist-psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor (CTA-P, PTSTA-P), specialised in Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C), in private practice in Milan, Italy. Working also within organisational settings with leaders, she is passionate about supporting individuals' and groups’ vital processes and transitions throughout the life cycle. She is certified as a cross-modality supervisor with CSTD London and currently researches the interweaving between autobiography, parenthood, professional choices and spirituality
Valeria Villa (CTA-P, PTSTA-P) is a psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor in Ferney- Voltaire (France). Valeria’s passion for parental mental health started while working within the criminal justice system and with cultural minorities. Her passion resides in research and the expansion of psychotherapy theories and models to support individuals, couples and families in their journey of parenthood/childlessness.
Sarah Crownley (CTA-P) is a psychotherapist practicing in Valencia, Spain. She works with individuals, couples, and facilitates specialist groups focused on fertility, assisted reproduction and menopause. Her work is dedicated to creating supportive, compassionate spaces where women can find connection, understanding, and resilience She believes deeply in the power of therapy to make meaning of loss, loneliness and grief that can often be a hidden part of the journey to motherhood.
Isa Delannoy (they/them) is a psychotherapist (CTA-P), educator and supervisor based near Southampton (UK). They have a passion for perinatal mental health, with particular areas of interest around sex and gender, ADHD, pregnancy loss through miscarriage or abortion, transgenerational trauma and breastfeeding Isa’s foundation for self-care is ecotherapy, meditation and mindfulness in movement.
Olly Hunt (CTA-P) is a psychotherapist based in Berkshire, having trained at Metanoia Institute. In his private practice, fatherhood is a common theme in focusing on relationships and parenting challenges. He collaborated with Emma Haynes in writing a chapter on Fathers and Partners in her recent book A Transactional Analysis of Motherhood and Disturbances in the Maternal. With a background as a professional singer, he is interested in the power of the voice and in the somatic effects of childhood experiences
Emma Haynes (she/her) (PhD, MSc, Training and Supervising Transactional Analyst, UKCP registered psychotherapist) is a perinatal psychotherapist, supervisor, trainer, researcher, Honorary Research Fellow and author based in Hampshire. Emma’s PhD research was on the treatment of perinatal mental illness using TA psychotherapy Emma continues to research and write about psychotherapy as a treatment for perinatal mental illness.
Lynne Ball (she/her) is a counsellor in private practice in Winchester, with a special interest in perinatal mental health. She supports those who are exploring or are on the journey of parenthood, who often silence themselves in response to societal and cultural expectations Being part of Our Evolution has deepened this work, and she is committed to shining a light on the unspoken, often isolating experiences of the parenting journey, offering connection, validation, and space for voices that have too often gone unheard.
Henrietta Rose. I am a CTA practicing in-person in South Kensington and online. I have worked in perinatal mental health since 2019, seeing clients in the charity sector and in private practice I think and work relationally, which influences my interest and work with the maternal experience generally and anger specifically.