Victoria Baskerville
Nominee Profile
Location: London
Victoria Baskerville (she/her) is an Intersectional Psychotherapist based in multidiverse East London, UK. She founded TA East London Institute, bringing a lens of intersectionality, aiming to account for social, cultural, and political contexts across theory and practice. She is a passionate activist for decolonising TA and psychotherapy practice.
I bring a professional background as a community artist, teacher in Newham Education Authority, Refugee and Asylum Seeker support worker, East London University lecturer, adult educator, Psychotherapist, group facilitator and founder and director of TA East London Institute.
I qualified as a psychotherapist -Transactional Analyst in 2002 and started teaching at Humanistic London Institute soon afterwards. I was struck early on by the normative privileged construct of psychotherapy focusing largely on White, individualistic, middle class, heteronormative and binary gendered identities. This did not fit with my working-class lineage and my lesbian identity, and I found myself feeling on the edge of the privileged institute. However, being White I was accepted and I was also careful to keep my political thinking outside the educational and therapeutic setting – particularly as difference and particularly racial difference was not accounted for in theory and practice.
I bring a professional background as a community artist, teacher in Newham Education Authority, Refugee and Asylum Seeker support worker, East London University lecturer, adult educator, Psychotherapist, group facilitator and founder and director of TA East London Institute.
I qualified as a psychotherapist -Transactional Analyst in 2002 and started teaching at Humanistic London Institute soon afterwards. I was struck early on by the normative privileged construct of psychotherapy focusing largely on White, individualistic, middle class, heteronormative and binary gendered identities. This did not fit with my working-class lineage and my lesbian identity, and I found myself feeling on the edge of the privileged institute. However, being White I was accepted and I was also careful to keep my political thinking outside the educational and therapeutic setting – particularly as difference and particularly racial difference was not accounted for in theory and practice.