Boarding School Survivors Team

 

Nick Duffell, the founder of BSS, was born in 1949 and went to boarding schools both in Europe and in England. He has a degree in Sanskrit, and taught for a while at a boarding school in India. After some years as a builder and carpenter, he retrained in psychotherapy. He has worked as a family therapist and mediator, organisational consultant, and has wide experience as a trainer and facilitator. He writes and broadcasts on psychological issues and has two grown-up sons. He is the author of The Making of Them, edited by the late Rob Bland.

 

Helena Løvendal-Sørensen was not born in England, nor was she sent to boarding school. In Denmark, where she was born and educated, such institutions were considered punishment rather than reward. She therefore brings a fresh eye to the programme, as well as her experience of working with people, as a social worker, psychotherapist, and supervisor. She specialises in working with women, has consulted to local authorities on child sexual abuse, and was a faculty member of the London Institute of Psychosynthesis. She is married to a boarding school survivor.

Helena and Nick are married and founded the Centre for Gender Psychology, and authored Sex, Love and The Dangers of Intimacy (Book is available from the Gender Psychology site).

 

Darrel Hunneybell was born in Huddersfield 1963 and has spent many years working in mental health. A qualified psychotherapist, he works with men groups, runs his own private practice, and counsels excluded adolescent boys in a residential school in Hertfordshire. Darrel brings to the team a ‘normal’ schooling along with his experience, commitment and heart.

 

Specially trained psychotherapists and counsellors are now available in some areas to help prepare for, follow up and integrate the work of healing begun with these workshops. For more information or to find out about a referral please click here.



Staff in training may sometimes be in assistant roles on the workshops.

 

Other resources: ChildLine 0800 1111


Boarding School Survivors is an organisational member of the
British Association for Counseling