Berny is a Psychotherapist at Humane Clinic and Co-Director of the Just Listening Community charity. She brings over 20 years of experience in the mental-health field, supervising and supporting teams of workers and volunteers across diverse settings. Working alongside clients—individually as well as in activity-based, therapeutic group and community environments—she has extensive experience and a strong passion for supporting people who have experiences of psychosis, extreme states, voices, visions and suicidality.

Berny holds a PG in Family and Systemic Therapy and a Diploma in Counselling. She is also trained in the Maastricht approach to hearing voices and completed the Humane Approaches to Psychotherapy course and supervision training. Berny co-facilitates training in Humane Clinic approaches nationally and internationally.