Experience and Qualifications.
My early career path was a balancing act between my private client work and supporting public organisations, such as the NHS and various child and adult mental health charities. This commitment to mental health has been a driving force in my career, allowing me to offer support to those who otherwise could not afford therapy.
In the last ten years, I have expanded my education and added specialisms in Psychosexual Therapy and Couples Counselling/Marriage Guidance.
Qualifications
- Diploma In Integrative Counselling.
- Post Graduate Diploma in Integrative Psychosexual & Relationship Therapy.
- Certificate in Couples Counselling.
- Certificate in advanced CBT.
- Post and pre-adoption support for coupled and prospective solo adopters, adoptees/ fostered and birth parents working with and through attachment, loss, abandonment, grief, sexual identity, genetic sexual attraction, fertility, anger, co-dependency and the whole gambit of emotions that can be elevated when we do not know who we are or where we have come from.
+ over 60 bona fide related pieces of training, including;
I have also received training on 'trauma that is held within a couple's relationship' from Sally Openshaw, a renowned expert in this field. This training has equipped me with the necessary skills to identify and address trauma within a couple's relationship, enhancing my ability to provide effective therapy.
My training in 'Theraplay, the Marschak interaction method (MIM)' has been instrumental in my work with traumatised families and children. This method focuses on enhancing the parent-child relationship through structured play, which I have found to be highly effective in my practice.
My training with Doug Braun Harvey, a leading expert in the field, has provided me with a deep understanding of out-of-control sexual behaviours. This knowledge has been invaluable in my work with clients struggling with these issues, allowing me to provide effective and compassionate therapy.
Erotic transference and Countertransferences (Cabby Laffy, Centre for psychosexual health) + many others.
Experience
Southwark Carers counselling organisation, Counsellor for single clients who were carers of family/friends with various mental health conditions. The vast majority of clients had developed mental health conditions as a result of feeling 'burned out'.
Ealing Abbey counselling service, Counselling solo clients with long-term mental health conditions.
NHS Hammersmith Hospital, part of the Imperial College Hospitals Trust, provides counselling to NHS medical staff (Consultants, Doctors, Nurses, bioscientists, etc.) on workplace bullying and harassment, as well as depression and anxiety disorders. Improving and implementing workers' mental and workplace health.
Mankind Counselling Services Brighton, Psychosexual therapy working with solo Male and Trans clients that were survivors of sexual/Violent abuse, sexual trauma and related psychosexual and relationship issues and a wide range of mental health disorders related to the abuse they had received.
Post-adoption centre, Couples and solo counselling for a vast array of client presentations from working with couples who wish to adopt, reunion management between biological relatives, anger at authority, identity issues, reunion genetic sexual attraction, depression and childhood sexual abuse, amongst many others.
Co-facilitated a weekend workshop on Inner child recovery at the Post-Adoption Centre, North London.
+ 1000s of private client hours working with relationship difficulties, sexual and sensual issues and mental and emotional health challenges
