Faculty
WILLEM DE JAGER, MA (ClinPsych)
Willem is in private practice and the retired Principal Clinical Psychologist in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Cape Town. He teaches the Intern-Psychologists and the Psychiatry registrars on Group Therapy in the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town. Willem coordinates, teaches and facilitates the theoretical component of the Intermediate Programme.
MONICA SPIRO, MA (ClinPsych), PhD (Psychotherapy), Group Analysis (IGA)
Monica is a group analyst and psychoanalytically oriented clinical psychologist in private practice. She works with groups, couples and individuals, and provides group psychotherapy supervision to students and colleagues. She completed her PhD examining processes of transformation in group psychotherapy for single mothers. .
PAT MAYERS, BA Nursing, MScMed (Psychiatry), DPhil (Psych)
Pat is an Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Western Cape, Cape Town, where she convenes courses in research methods and supervises postgraduate students.. Pat specialises in Mental Health Nursing, counselling and group work. Pat retired from her academic position at UCT Division of Nursing and Midwifery, where she convened and taught courses in mental health, primary health care, communication and counselling skills and health and human rights. In 2019, Pat was acting programme head for the Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Psychiatric Nursing at the University of Stellenbosch. Pat has a keen interest in community healing and transformation, the mentoring and facilitating of groups, and provides supportive individual counselling and supervision as requested. Pat leads the seminars in the Introductory Training Programme.
KEVASHINI GOVENDER-NAIDOO, MA Clin. Psych (UCT)
Kevashini is a clinical psychologist and a specialist organisational development and support consultant. After approximately 20 years of clinical experience, Kevashini co-founded Impilo Consulting which utilizes a group analytic perspective in her work with organisations in the public and non-governmental sectors. She is especially interested in the impact of mental health on an organisation/workplace, student wellness within tertiary institutions and scholarship funds as well as issues of race, power and gender within organisations. She currently conducts the educators experiential group as a member of the CGAS faculty, as well as the median/large group alongside Enzo.
LINDY ACKERMANN, HDE, MPsych
Lindy is an Educational Psychologist in private practice. She is currently the experiential group therapist for the Intermediate Training Programme. Lindy has worked with the group analytic perspective in corporate settings and run groups for women. She has also used her 16 years’ experience in the field of education together with her training in group analytic studies to teach the theoretical component and coordinate the Educators’ Training Programme.
VINCENZO SINISI, MA Clin Psych (Wits), Group Analyst (IGA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA)
Vincenzo Sinisi is a group-analyst, psychoanalyst, and clinical psychologist (HPCSA). He is in full-time private practice and the founder of TherapyRoute.com. He conducts the median/large group, which forms part of the Quarterly Meetings alongside Kevashini.