Jane Ryan

Jane Ryan trained as a psychotherapist at the Centre for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (CAPP) in the 1990s. She subsequently founded Confer and worked as its director from 1999 until her retirement in 2022.

Confer was created to bridge gaps between different schools of thought in the psychotherapy field and to increase communication across mental health disciplines. Over the years it developed into an ongoing programme of conferences and seminars, often positioning the work of psychotherapy in the context of an problematic external world. Offering a platform to the most innovative author-theorists, its events attracted thousands of practitioners, providing a welcoming space for dialogue and professional development.

Jane was joined in the enterprise by Dr Stephen Setterberg from 2017-2022. Together they developed Confer’s scope into a larger organisation, incorporating Karnac Books and the organisation’s own publishing imprint, Confer Books, which aimed to take psychotherapeutic insights out into the wider world of those interested in emotional, psychological, and relational issues.

She is the editor of three books How Does Psychotherapy Work? (Karnac, 2006), Tales of Psychotherapy (Karnac, 2007) and, with Roz Carroll, What is Normal? (Confer Books, 2020).

Jane lives in Suffolk and has most recently completed the MA in Creative Non-Fiction Writing at the University of East Anglia.

Jane is Patron of The Yellow Heart Trust http://yht.org.uk

Linkedin
www.linkedin.com/pub/jane-ryan/4a/835/876

Publications

How Does Psychotherapy Work?
Publisher: Karnac Books, 2005

Tales of Psychotherapy
Publisher: Karnac Books, 2007

What is Normal?: Psychotherapists Explore the Question
Editor With Roz Carroll – Publisher: Confer Books, 2021