Who we are

We are a diverse, culturally sensitive, forward-thinking team, including experienced Psychotherapists and Clinical Psychologists.

We are upstanders and accomplices who disrupt systems and join communities in the fight for equity, social and racial justice.

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Meet the Team

Clinical and Community Psychologist
Ama is a Clinical Psychologist with several years of experience working with adults, children, families and communities. With care, compassion and curiosity she aims to help marginalised and racialised communities by addressing the systemic causes of mental health inequality. Ama is passionate about the impact of intersectional identity, culture, family, and systems on our wellbeing and works to use learning and wisdom derived from our social, cultural and political world to impact change.

Executive Assistant
Ibby is an experienced Executive Assistant, with professional experiences working in the financial and corporate events industries, and community organisations. Prior to starting at Partisan Ibby worked with a Community Interest Company that specialised in Black learning and mental health; supporting a small team that focused on promoting a positive dialogue of social identity and culture through history.

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Founder and CEO.
Jay is a Consultant Child, Adolescent and Family Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, and the Founder and CEO of Partisan; a Black-led Community Interest Company born out of a pull from the community for accessible and culturally-sensitive mental health and wellbeing support and a push from traditional mental health systems that have long failed to see, hear and honour Black lives.
Before training as a Psychotherapist, Jay began his career as a Youth Worker, that foundation shaped everything that came after. His work is deeply rooted in community: co-producing alternative help systems that sit outside of clinics and centre Black communities. His practice lives at the intersections: between theory and lived experience, therapy and activism, healing and justice. At its core is a commitment to relationships, regeneration, redistribution and repair.
He takes a non-pathologizing view of mental health, recognising that people's realities can only be understood when thought about in the context of the complex systems that they are a part of; including education, health and care, mental health, economic, criminal justice, and political systems. His work intersects with multiple levels of these systems; not seeking to fix individuals, but instead co-creating the conditions for collective healing and systemic repair.
There is a clear social justice thread through everything Jay does. He stands alongside communities in addressing structural and systemic discrimination, not only in therapeutic spaces, but also at community, organisational and policy levels. He believes Black wellbeing is not a soft extra, it is a political imperative.

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Community Counsellor and Integrative Psychotherapist in training
Joden Joseph, Bsc (Hons), PgDip, is an award-winning British-born integrative psychotherapist of St Lucian and Jamaican heritage, and a Pilates instructor in training. His multidisciplinary background spans psychology, counselling, psychotherapy, somatic practice, and the performing arts. Rooted in holistic and decolonial approaches to mental health, his work focuses on individual and collective healing, exploring themes of belonging, memory, wellbeing, and heritage through the lens of African and African-Caribbean diasporic experience.

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Clinical Community Psychologist.
Maria is an experienced Clinical Psychologist that has worked in various settings supporting adolescents, adults, and families. She is committed to working creatively alongside marginalised communities and remains conscious of social, cultural, and political issues as they relate to wellbeing, mental health, power and social position; all of which underpin her work in complex systems. Passionate about co-production, she has experience in service development and has worked collaboratively with young people to provide quality client-led services.

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Operations Lead at Partisan.
Nadeem is passionate about building systems and processes that serve people. With a background in service management and community leadership across the charity and social impact sectors, he brings over a decade of experience in leading teams, developing services, and embedding values of equity, care, and accountability into everyday practice.
Before joining Partisan, Nadeem managed services supporting people experiencing homelessness, social exclusion, and disadvantage. This work shaped his commitment to relational leadership and systems change. He’s particularly interested in how operations can become spaces of wellbeing, fairness, and creativity rather than control.
Outside of work, Nadeem enjoys spending time with his family, training in the gym, writing spoken word, reflective writing, and long walks where ideas often take shape.

Clinical Lead
Razeenah is an Educational Psychologist and system-change lead. With over a decade of experience across South Africa, the USA and the UK, she blends therapeutic approaches, psychological assessment, systemic thinking and advocacy, grounding her work in cross-cultural, trauma-informed and relational practice.
People often ask how an Educational Psychologist found her way into community, social-justice and policy spaces. For Razeenah, real development has never lived solely in classrooms, it lives in identity, culture, belonging, relationships and everyday environments where young people grow. She’s committed to creating brave, inclusive and relational spaces where young people and teams can lead, thrive and shape what mental health support could be, not just what it’s always been.

Clinical and Community Psychologist
Naima is a Clinical Psychologist with experience across public, private, and charitable sectors supporting young people, adults, families, and communities. She is an enthusiastic and creative forward-thinking individual committed to social action and working collaboratively through co-production to improve and develop services. She has taken great pride in starting campaigns and conversations, challenging capitalist, and colonial systems. She applies passion, understanding, and knowledge of community psychology towards engaging with and supporting racialised and marginalised communities. She believes that mental wellbeing does not exist in a vacuum, and is impacted by social, cultural, and political factors. Throughout her career, she has worked to put herself at the forefront of change and equity for marginalised and racialised individuals and communities.

Lead for Learning and Impact
Dr. Nina Browne is a systems thinker and embodied leadership coach and community clinical psychologist. She works at the intersection of psychology, policy, and justice. With roots in grassroots and community mental health, she supports people and systems to lead with clarity, purpose, and adaptability.
She is a founding Director and Chair of the Board at Partisan, coming together with Jay over a shared commitment to this work. She leads on Learning and Impact, developing a culture of learning that enables both the team and the organisation to pivot at the pace required for community-led innovation — always centring context, risk-taking, and relationships.
She is the founder of Practice to Policy — a vehicle to work with psychologists committed to social and racial justice work. Most recently she has pivoted away from talking about approaches to the life of the body. She is a somatic coach and training with The Strozzi Institute to bring this into the strategic work of teams.

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Communications Lead
Payal is Communications Lead at Partisan, and is passionate about storytelling, writing, and helping others find their voice to influence change. Previously, she led digital and print communications for a national anti-racism charity, shaping its branding, tone of voice, and communications strategy. She also has experience in publishing and education, having worked in social media, marketing, and editorial roles, as well as a teaching assistant and children’s librarian.
A guest contributor to Collins’ Who We Are and Through Our Lens anthologies, Payal champions cross-cultural, intersectional, and anticolonial dialogue, informed by her Masters in World Literatures in Translation. She welcomes recommendations on exhibitions, books, theatre, and London walks.

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Trainee Clinical Psychologist
Rudo is a Trainee Clinical Psychologist in the final year of her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at UCL. She will be joining Partisan for a year-long placement. Rudo has worked across a range of public and third sector settings with adults, children and families. Committed to anti-oppressive practice, her research focuses on addressing mental health inequalities for Black communities by promoting culturally responsive practices within NHS services. Guided by systems thinking, she works with an awareness that distress rarely occurs in a vacuum, but is often shaped by experiences of marginalisation, disempowerment and systemic inequalities. Whilst at Partisan, Rudo hopes to deepen her understanding of Community Psychology approaches and contribute to the development of creative, inclusive systems of help and healing that meet the needs of racialised and marginalised communities