Angela Bagum

Mental health nurse, Art Psychotherapist and Jungian Analyst in training.

Angela Bagum (NMC & HCPC Reg) qualified as a nurse twenty years ago, having originally studied at art college. Over the years, Angela has maintained her art practice while also training as an art psychotherapist.

Angela is the Head of the Digital and Short Course Portfolio at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which promotes CPD training and workforce development for clinicians and practitioners. She previously worked at Tavistock Consulting as an organisational consultant, where she supported organisations through a systems-psychodynamic approach to understanding organisational life for teams within the NHS, third sector, creative industries and local government.  She is currently the Clinical Team Manager for South Camden Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. She has worked with multi-agency services in Camden, including Youth Offending Services, Forensic CAMHS and the Lighthouse multi-agency service, supporting children and young people in their experiences of sexual abuse and exploitation.

She also co-created the ‘Working towards Wellbeing’ course bundle, in part to acknowledge that the Covid-19 pandemic had caused collective trauma for some people. According to Angela, the courses “aim to bring together mindfulness, compassion-focused therapy ideas, and narrative applications, introducing these to our everyday lives at home and agile working approaches. We hope that knowing ‘it’s ok to not be ok’ will provide motivation to notice oneself and make time for a mindful tea break, for example, when it’s most needed.”