about me

I am a member of:

The British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP).

As well as my private work, I am a Senior Counsellor at Rape Crisis, I have several years’ experience providing counselling to women in a domestic violence project, I worked in an agency for several years counselling young people aged 13-25. I also worked counselling young people in a secondary school.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Person-Centred Counselling
Higher Professional Diploma in Counselling
Advanced Post Diploma Certificate Course in Person-Centred Couples Counselling

Supervision

Diploma in Counselling Supervision
Certificate for Advanced Clinical Supervision: Effective Tools for Ethical and Culturally Responsive Supervision

Coaching Certificate

Embodied Intimacy and Relational Coaching

Continual Professional Development

As a member of BACP, I am committed to my continual personal and professional development and also work in accordance with their ethical framework for good practice. Here is a selection of some of the trainings I have undertaken.

Couples and Relationship Training

The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy Training (under Ellyn Bader Ph.D)
Assessing and Treating Sexual Issues in Psychotherapy - Level 2 (AASECT with Martha Kauppi)
Relationships and Asperger Syndrome
Intimacy and Infidelity in Couples Therapy
Polyamory: Therapeutic Challenges, Confrontations, and Solutions
The Empathy Tightrope; Confronting Addiction in Couple Therapy
Pathways to Intimacy After Trauma

Training, Courses, Workshops and Seminars

Certificate in Neurodiversity & Trauma / Neuro-Affirmative Practice
Integrative Somatic Parts Work - Level 1,2 & 3 with Frances D Booth LICSW
Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Love, Sex & the Body; Men's Relationship with Embodiment, Sexuality & Intimacy
The Practices and Principles of Ethical Polyamory
Working with Compulsive Sexual Behaviours
The Intersection of Race, Gender, Relationship and Sexual Diversity
Embodying Power and Difference in the Clinical Relationship
Sex and Intimacy after Trauma
Working with Relational Trauma
Healing Trauma in the LGBTQ+ Community
Working with Diversity in Counselling
Working with Autistic Process