These governors represent the interests of members of the public who are residents of England and Wales.
The ‘softer’ issues surrounding health care would not come naturally to a professional engineer. Living with a psychotherapist and having been a Trustee of an arts education charity in east London and most recently as its chair, I appreciate the value that a wide spectrum of disciplines can contribute to enhancing societal well-being. The Arts and ‘making’ are central to my life through embracing creative processes as diverse as software, electronics and DIY to cooking.
Having worked for international consultancies, an oil major and most recently the Civil Service in Whitehall I have lived and worked in Westminster for over 30 years. Travelling around largely by bicycle, augmented by public transport, I feel that I get under the skin of our hugely diverse society in central London.
Dr Silvia is currently a Governor for CNWL NHS Foundation Trust, an Expert Witness and Executive Coach being also the founder of VoxBrain Academy.
She is Associate Fellow at BPS, Scientist, a Senior Associate Member for Royal Society of Medicine and is Accredited Member registered at BACP and BABCP. Dr Silvia Gerea holds a Doctorate in Psychology and also studied different approaches in Psychotherapy like:CBT,as well as Integrative and Psychodynamic Counselling.
She has experience in Adult Mental Health Psychology (Complex Care) and Acute Psychology Service (inpatients and outpatients) and also worked in the A&E department at Royal Free Hospital and has experience working as a Consultant for Alzheimer Society. She is a Dementia Champion of Alzheimer’s Society & Dementia Friends.
Silvia is passionate about raising awareness of psychology in people’s life and focuses on the therapeutic relationship by offering an emphatic counselling.
Her main focus is guiding clients and fellow psychotherapists that she is supervising, through the process of understanding their problems and developing solutions by tailoring her compassionate approach according to individual needs.
Motto: “Life begins with change, knowledge and perseverance. Rediscover and reinvent yourself every day!You are you and you are not your illness!”.
She said:
“Being romanian has given me the opportunity to experience and understand the importance of multicultural diversity and acceptance. I have been a resident of Brent and public member, NHS and private sector professional for over 18 years and strongly believe that I can become the voice of local people.
I have experience working within NHS in two busy multi-disciplinary teams, inpatient and outpatient care in the borough of Brent and believe I can use the knowledge to serve the community and help deliver high quality services.
Due to the nature of my work, I meet a high number of local people in their most sensitive and distressed time of their life and hear all their wishes and concerns. Therefore, I truly believe that I can represent them accordingly and help build a better community for all of us.”