ABOUT ME

ABOUT ME

I am a UKCP accredited  Integrative Psychotherapist & Counsellor. I have a UKCP accredited MA in Integrative Psychotherapy and a BACP accredited Diploma in Integrative Counselling from The Minster Centre, London. I am also a Clinical Supervisor.


I have been involved in therapy since 2006 and working with clients since 2012. I have extensive experience of working in primary care NHS IAPT and secondary care community services, higher education student counselling teams, bereavement services and in private practice. Read more about my experience.


I abide by the UKCP code of ethics, I attend regular clinical supervision and I engage in CPD to enhance my professional and personal practice.


I am fully insured with public liability and professional indemnity cover and have an enhanced DBS certificate.


UKCP Registration No: 2011168265



"I will consciously explore with you your present & past relationships & experiences, & the impact these have on you today"

QUALIFICATIONS



"I would draw our attention to our internal worlds & be mindful of current emotions, feelings and sensations within & between us"

"Cultivating awareness such as this can help unlock some deeply held unconscious experiences"

SPECIALIST TRAINING

  • Loss, Complicated Grief & Traumatic Bereavement
  • Self harm and Suicide
  • Introduction to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
  • Sexual Diversity
  • Eating Disorders
  • Psychiatric Assessment
  • Childhood Sexual Abuse
  • Time Limited Counselling
  • Skills for Trauma
  • Integrative Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Death and Bereavement
  • Sexuality
  • Severe Presentations

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

 

2024


2023

  • Advanced Diploma Clinical Supervision (NCIP accredited course), Kathy Raffles Counselling Services
  • Regular NHS mandatory training - incl. Safeguarding Adults and Children, Information Governance, PREVENT, Dual Diagnosis. 
  • Love Most Natural (residential workshop),  Joanna Watters
  • Love, Trauma & Healing (online workshops), Thomas Huebl



2020 to 2022

  • Strength and Sensitivity (regular group enquiry workshops), Joanna Watters



2019

  • Certificate Course in Animal-Assisted Therapy: A Practical Model to Incorporate Animals in Your Current Treatment, Psychotherapy Excellence
  • Introduction to the Wim Hoff method
  • Update in Risk & Safeguarding, Equality & Diversity, Health & Safety, online via ICS Training

2018

2017

  • Addiction, Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Neuroscience behind Developmental/Attachment Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences, Psychotherapy Excellence


2016


2014

  • Working with Chronic Illness, The Minster Centre CPD training
  • Therapist’s Personal Life, The Minster Centre CPD training
  • Specialist Training in Loss, Complicated Grief & Traumatic Bereavement, Wandsworth Bereavement Service

 

"By working this way, we can develop a more accepting & balanced way of being with our internal & external worlds"