About Me
A helping hand towards optimal health
Background
I began in practice in 2011. I have over 13 years’ experience in working for the NHS. I am a senior counsellor in an Occupational Health dept counselling NHS staff.
I work as an associate creative therapist for a large organisation in the Northwest as part of an emotional trauma support team working with adoption families and vulnerable children who may be placed within the care system or in specialist school provisions.
A large part of this client base presents as neurodivergent. I have additional experience counselling school staff within specialist school provisions and run a busy private practice offering counselling for adults, children and young people and clinical supervision.
Qualifications
- Level 6 Advanced Certificate in Clinical supervision, (IDM) Integrative developmental model (including online and phone working).
- Dyadic developmental psychotherapy Level 1 and 2 (Based on attachment and developmental trauma to support children and families with relationships)
- Certificate in Adoption Support Counselling (in conjunction with Barnardo’s & Albany centre)
- BA (hons) Early Years (University of Chester, 2:1)
- Advanced Diploma in Counselling,
- Certificate in Counselling Children and young People (Temenos)
- Certificate in online/telephone counselling (80 hours mapped to BACP competencies)
- Certificate in therapeutic counselling
- Safeguarding Training Level 1 and 2 and DSL (designated safeguarding lead)
- Stress related Mindfulness Coaching certificate - Fretus Group
- Somatic Trauma Training (12 days – live training with Babette Rothchild)
- Rewind Technique (David Muss)
- TA 101 (Link Centre)
- AAT Animal Assisted Therapy
- Papyrus SP-EAK, Suicide Prevention – Explore, Ask, Keep-Safe
- Working therapeutically with families (4 days)
- Working with Trauma PTSD And CPTSD (4 days – Penny Bullock)
- Level 1 and 2 Emotional freedom technique (Tapping)
Training
- I have completed additional training and workshops in;
- Autism awareness and anxiety (Tony Attwood, Luke Beardon)
- Avoidant attachment styles – Linda Cundy
- Remembering, Re-experiencing. Reliving: applying therapeutic age regression in psychotherapy – Dr Richard G Erskine
- Attachment and complex Trauma: managing the approach-avoidance cycle – Kathy Steele
- Pre-verbal, Nonverbal & Implicit Memories (keys to addressing dev. trauma) – Dr Richard Erskine
- Complex trauma certification – Janina Fisher
- Trauma Informed assessment – Sarah Butler
- Understanding Mother-Daughter attachment – Rosjke Hasseldine
- Working relationally with C-PTSD - Lesley Van den Eijnden
- Working with trauma, working with shame, working with dissociative disorders, working with relational trauma; dealing with disorganised attachment. Working with suicide and self-harm – Caroline Spring
- Drawing and Talking, Sand-tray therapy, Ambiguous loss, Exploring anger creatively, Group facilitation skills, Addictive relationships with food,
- I am BACP registered, fully insured and I have enhanced DBS for working with vulnerable adults, children and young people. Safeguarding training level 1 and 2 and designated safeguarding lead.