Each year members are invited to nominate possible Trustees to the Board. If you would like to consider being a Trustee, please contact the secretary.
If you would like to know more about how Trustees work, please contact our secretary André Groenewald on secretary4apse@gmail.com
Peter is an ordained Minister (Presbyter) in the Moravian Church, currently serving as Minister of Fairfield Moravian Settlement in Manchester. He is also Professor of Counselling and Spiritual Accompaniment at the University of Chester, UK, and Honorary Professor of Practical Theology at Teofilo Kisanji University, TZ. He has a private practice in Pastoral Supervision. He is an APSE Senior Accredited Pastoral Supervisor, a BACP Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist and a BACP Senior Accredited Supervisor of Individuals. He has a particular interest in clergy well-being. Peter has researched, written and published extensively on the intersection between the psychological and the theological. He has developed the Moravian Church’s (British Province) provincial policy on Pastoral Supervision for all serving Ministers and paid Church Workers, and co-ordinates the Pastoral Supervision provision in the Moravian Church (British Province). He also sits on the Provincial Church Service Committee of the Moravian Church (British Province), having been Chair of that committee for many years. He is particularly keen to advocate and increase research into Pastoral Supervision and is part of the APSE Training, Research and Publication sub-group, as well as being a member of the North West regional group.
Deanne is a psychotherapist and supervisor, and has been a member of APSE for five years. As a supervisor her work has included undertaking a clinical co-ordinator’s role in a charity offering counselling to survivors of incest and sexual abuse. Her current supervision practice includes offering individual and group clinical supervision, and she works with both trainee and qualified counsellors. She is a member of the New Testament Church of God, and married to a Pastor. Within the Church, she oversees counselling teams that are made available during national Church conferences. Since COVID-19, she has been asked to offer group supervision for the Church of God of Prophecy counselling team. She has a passion for pastoral supervision, and for her recent doctoral research, explored the emotional demands made on the wives of clergy within the New Testament Church of God.
André GroenewaldAndré is the Parish minister of Dunfermline St Columba’s Church of Scotland. He has been a minister for 31 years of which 14 years were in South Africa. He has also been a part-time lecturer in South Africa at the University of Pretoria, before immigrating to Scotland in 2008. He gained his BA, BD, MDiv, DD (PHD) in Systematic Theology, and joined APSE in 2018. He obtained the Diploma in Pastoral Supervision and Reflective Practice with the Institute of Pastoral Supervision and Reflective Practice on the 20th of March 2020 and a Masters degree in Psychology in 2025. He takes delight in the fact that Pastoral Supervision can be a powerful way of supporting all professionals in the helping professions to talk about and focus on their work through words, creativity, imagination and visual aids. He and his wife, who is also a minister, have two sons.
On leaving school Graham embarked on a career in accountancy before hearing a call to full-time Christian ministry. After training to be a Methodist Minister (1983-86) he served in Bristol, Southwell (Nottinghamshire), North Walsham (Norfolk), Norwich and Exeter until taking up retirement in 2023. Graham’s first experience of Pastoral Supervision was in 2006 and he has been using the skills learned then – and reinforced in development opportunities since – within the Methodist Church. In 2018 Graham successfully completed the Wesley House Certificate Course in pastoral Supervision. Graham is married to Alison and has two grown up sons and two grandchildren. His interests include development of the whole person and community cohesion.
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Joolz has a background in journalism and charity administration. She lives in West Yorkshire with her cat.
I am a mother of 2 grown up children both taller than me and 4 grandchildren rapidly growing taller than me! I have a husband who supports me along the road I travel, and I’m a retired URC Minister who is still involved in church work. I’m passionate about Pastoral Supervision and have been for many a year, prior to entering full-time ministry I was a counsellor and supervisor and realised immediately that ministry is a lonely business and one in which the demands are high. I saw the seeds of APSE take root and kept ‘an eye on what was happening’, I also realised what a benefit it would be to create ‘a safe space’ for those in ministry and upon retirement worked in a task group to help the URC decide on a policy for its ministers. I also became a member of APSE in 2018, felt God call me into the role of Pastoral Supervisor and have since had the joy of sharing in the North West Regional group meetings, APSE conferences and workshops leading me to meet other Pastoral Supervisors, many of whom have encouraged me along the way. If you asked me why I want to serve as a trustee, my only reply would be, ‘I’m not sure I do’… but I’ve been asked, I’ve prayed about this and feel that it is a step I am being asked to take along the road I am travelling and one that I have time, energy and enthusiasm for. I won’t always get it right but there are good folk alongside me who will guide me when I need direction and I have the humility to take advice.
Trustee, Lisa Curtice“I have been an APSE accredited supervisor from 2020. I obtained the Diploma in Pastoral Supervision and Reflective Practice from ISRP in 2019. I am drawn to pastoral supervision because of the space it provides for safe and imaginative reflection. I have found it to be a source of restoration, sustenance and challenge in her own ministry and life.”
“I am a presbyter in the Methodist Church, currently serving in Liverpool. I was involved in the pilot project to introduce pastoral supervision for ministers within the British Methodist Church, so have been in supervision and regularly supervising since 2016. I am part of the team that trains supervisors to be accredited as supervisors within Methodism and also supervisors of supervision. I hold the Diploma in Supervision from Wesley House, Cambridge. I am deeply committed to pastoral supervision as a means to support the vocational development of all disciples.”
After a career in teaching, Anissa is now an experienced BACP accredited therapist, a UKCP registered psychotherapist and Supervisor, and also an APSE senior accredited pastoral supervisor. She has a well-established private practice for adults, and offers pastoral supervision to those who work in a church setting. Besides her clinical work, Anissa had been a trainer to MSc level at the Sherwood Institute, Nottingham. She has joined IPCS since 2016 and tutors on both the Professional Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Pastoral Supervision as well as the short courses for CofE dioceses to equip clergy, chaplains and lay leaders. Anissa is also the Head of Counselling Service for Leicester Diocese. She finds it rewarding to accompany all who want to experience personal and professional growth and transformation.
Mark is bringing over three decades of experience as both a Military Chaplain and Baptist Minister. Throughout his ministry, he has seen first-hand the immense value of reflective practice, wise supervision, and supportive accountability for those serving on the frontline of pastoral and spiritual care. In demanding environments from military chaplaincy to local church ministry, his experience of pastoral supervision has proved not only sustaining, but transformative, enabling him to minister with resilience, integrity, and self-awareness. In recent years, He had the privilege of supporting and training clergy and religious leaders from a wide range of backgrounds and nations. This has deepened his conviction that high-quality pastoral supervision is essential for healthy ministry and long-term personal and professional wellbeing. He is a General Accredited Supervisor.
Judith strongly value APSE and all it achieves in terms of promoting good practice in pastoral supervision. From a personal perspective her ministry was supported in significant ways through her engagement in pastoral supervision for the last 8 years, and as a pastoral supervisor. She has been humbled by the way in which it has supported others in ministry. She brings more than 40 years of experience in ministry, following an initial career in nursing, and a longstanding commitment to supporting the wellbeing, resilience and sustainability of those engaged in ministry. Throughout her ministry as a Salvation Army Officer, she has served as a local church leader and in regional roles supporting Social Services, Learning and Development, and Wellbeing. In her final appointment, as Principal of William Booth College, she also served as a Trustee of The Salvation Army, gaining valuable experience of governance, leadership and organisational responsibility.
Ursula has a Masters in Gestalt Psychotherapy, a Diploma in Pastoral Supervision and is accredited by UKCP and APSE respectively. She is ordained, and recently retired from associate ministry at a local parish church. She leads the clergy counselling service for the Diocese of Lichfield, helps facilitate Pastoral Supervision for the diocese and is involved in the training and supervision of Spiritual Directors. She is currently researching the field boundaries between Counselling, Spiritual Direction and Pastoral Supervision under the auspices of the University of Chester.
Being closely involved with the support and development of Pastoral Supervision and supervisors within the Lichfield diocese she’s very aware of the benefits this brings to clergy -Both from the wider perspective of a pastoral supervision practice and from personal experience in her own ministry. She is passionate advocate for pastoral supervision within the Lichfield diocese and beyond.
Sharon came to pastoral supervision relatively late in her professional life, but it has proved transformative in her work. Having experienced first-hand the value and depth that supervision can bring, she was keen to learn how to share that experience with others. Training as a supervisor opened up a rich new vocational dimension for her, and she has found great fulfilment in seeing others discover the support, challenge and depth that effective supervision can offer. APSE has been an important part of her own journey, and she is delighted to have the opportunity to contribute as a Trustee. She hopes that, through joining the Board, she can help to further enrich and strengthen the excellent supervisory work being undertaken by colleagues across the country.
