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 currently undertaking Clinical Supervision Training.


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

 

  • Advanced Diploma Clinical Supervision (NCIP accredited course), Kathy Raffles Counselling Services, Feb to Jul 2023
  • Regular NHS mandatory training - incl. Safeguarding Adults and Children, Information Governance, PREVENT, Dual Diagnosis. 
  • Love Most Natural (residential workshop),  Joanna Watters, 24 April - 1 May 2022 (7 days)
  • Love, Trauma & Healing (online workhops), Thomas Huebl, April - May 2021 (8 hours)
  • Strength and Sensitivity (regular group enquiry workshops),  Joanna Watters, April 2020 - July 2022
  • Certificate Course in Animal-Assisted Therapy: A Practical Model to Incorporate Animals in Your Current Treatment, Psychotherapy Excellence, July 2019 (online), 12.75 hours
  • Introduction to the Wim Hoff method, July 2019, 4 hours
  • Update in Risk & Safeguarding, Equality & Diversity, Health & Safety, online via ICS Training, June 2019
  • Pre and Perinatal Emotional Health, Confer, December 2018, 1 day
  • The Psychophysiology of PTSD and Trauma: how can we make Trauma Therapy safer, NScience, 2018, 2 days
  • Advanced Certificate in Counselling for Depression, University of Central Lancashire, 2018
  • Wild Therapy: bringing therapy into the wild, and wildness into therapy, Confer, 2018, 1 day
  • The Impact of IAPT, Psychotherapists & Counsellors for Social Responsibility, 2018, 1 day
  • Addiction, Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Neuroscience behind Developmental/Attachment Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences, Psychotherapy Excellence, 2017, online
  • Children and Young People Conference ‘Self and identity: breaking down barriers for inclusion', BACP, 2016, online
  • Bearing All For Love, Joanna Watters, 2016, 4 days
  • Relational Depth and Emotional Connection in Online Therapy, BACP, 2016, (online)
  • Embodied Intersubjectivity, Chiron Association for Body Psychotherapists, 2016, 1 day
  • Working with Chronic Illness, The Minster Centre CPD training, 1 day, 2014
  • Therapist’s Personal Life, The Minster Centre CPD training, 4 hours, 2014
  • Specialist Training in Loss, Complicated Grief & Traumatic Bereavement, Wandsworth Bereavement Service, 2012, 36 hours

 

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