This is another interview that’s a long time coming - I’ve known Lee Marsden since I trained with the Caspari Foundation. She’s one of the very experienced Educational Psychotherapists still involved with the Caspari Foundation and its Advanced Diploma. She has also been an invaluable support to me as I’ve taken on editing the Caspari Journal with another esteemed colleague, Louise Mullier.

Lee trained as a Secondary English teacher and then had a fascinating journey through her career, helping children and staff in schools, in Simmons House Adolescent Unit, the Tavistock Day Unit and the Cassel Hospital, a psychiatric unit in Richmond.

I’d been wanting to talk to her for some time about working in multidisciplinary settings, an area I am both curious about and very challenged by!

This became a really interesting discussion of how this type of work can be most effective - for example, working with parents and doing reflective work with staff; and also how things have and could change within the education system, and for us as therapeutic teachers and/or Educational Psychotherapists.

References:

The Internal and External Worlds of Children and Adolescents: Collaborative Therapeutic Care (The Cassel Hospital Monograph Series) Eds. Lesley Day & Denis Flynn

Not Now, Bernard by David McKee

Don’t Dawdle Dorothy by Margrit Cruickshank

The Caspari Foundation

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