About Me: Qualifications and Training
I am a MBACP and UKCP-Registered Integrative Psychotherapist.
I currently work in Private Practice, as a volunteer for a Low-Cost Counselling Service, and as an Academic Research Assistant and Dissertation Supervisor at a training organisation. I have previously worked in a student counselling service and within the NHS as an Honorary Psychotherapist in a Complex Care Team.
I hold a Diploma and a Masters Degree in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling,
awarded by The Minster Centre, www.minstercentre.org.uk (in conjunction with Middlesex University) and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Working with the Couple in Mind awarded by WPF Therapy (Westminster Pastoral Foundation).
My degrees and training have been fully accredited by the BACP and the UKCP.
As a registered member of both professional bodies, I follow both the
BACP Codes of Ethical Practice and the UKCP's Ethical Practice and Codes of Professional Conduct.
My five-year training concentrated on: Object Relations (how we internalise our
earliest relationships); Humanistic principles, Body Psychotherapy,
Attachment Theory (how we bond with our caregivers and significant others),
Diversity (race, age, religion, culture, class and sexuality), Integration,
Relational Psychoanalysis, and Psychological Developments in Neuroscience.
I currently work in Private Practice, as a volunteer for a Low-Cost Counselling Service, and as an Academic Research Assistant and Dissertation Supervisor at a training organisation. I have previously worked in a student counselling service and within the NHS as an Honorary Psychotherapist in a Complex Care Team.
I hold a Diploma and a Masters Degree in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling,
awarded by The Minster Centre, www.minstercentre.org.uk (in conjunction with Middlesex University) and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Working with the Couple in Mind awarded by WPF Therapy (Westminster Pastoral Foundation).
My degrees and training have been fully accredited by the BACP and the UKCP.
As a registered member of both professional bodies, I follow both the
BACP Codes of Ethical Practice and the UKCP's Ethical Practice and Codes of Professional Conduct.
My five-year training concentrated on: Object Relations (how we internalise our
earliest relationships); Humanistic principles, Body Psychotherapy,
Attachment Theory (how we bond with our caregivers and significant others),
Diversity (race, age, religion, culture, class and sexuality), Integration,
Relational Psychoanalysis, and Psychological Developments in Neuroscience.
I have undertaken additional training in: Focusing; Systemic Family Constellations; Embodying Theory; Trauma and Dissociation; Trauma Skills; PTSD, Dual Awareness and the Sensory Nervous System; Trauma and Attachment: The Resilience of Mind and Body; Sexuality; Love, Narcissism and Sexual Fantasy (Couples); Childhood Sexual Abuse; Working with Older Clients; Severe Presentations; Working with Chronic Disability and Illness; Working with Adolescents; and Understanding and Working with Adults with ADHD and/or Autism Spectrum Traits. I have a wide breadth of additional (academic/teaching/tutoring) experience with those struggling with LDs and their accompanying psychological manifestations, such as anxiety, OCD, low self-esteem, and multi-sensory disorders. In 2018, I will be continuing further training in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples; Infidelity: Working with Threats to the Couple Relationship; Core Emotional Processes in the Mammalian Mind; and Trauma, Attachment and Dissociation.
In addition to my degrees in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling, I have received a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature.
In addition to my degrees in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling, I have received a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature.
