Qualifications, Experience and Trainings
- Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (CPCAB)
- Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
- United Kingdom Register of Counselling and Psychotherapists (UKRCP)
- Penny Parks (PICT) Well Formed Outcome Workshop
- CBT Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
- South Somerset Mind – 2 day training on Personality Disorders
- Assertiveness Training – Somerset County Council
- Workshop with Professor Julia Buckroyd – Disordered Eating, Attachment theory and a new way of working
- Introduction to Embodied Counter-Transference and Projective Identification work. A one day introduction to Body work.
- Assessment Training
- Couples Counselling – Post Diploma Intensive Training
- Understanding and supporting the impact of developmental trauma in vulnerable children in early years – Jane Evans
- Caroline Spring – PODS – Trauma Dissociation and Recovery – Healing the Brain
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Experience of short-term solution-focussed work within the NHS ( 2 years)
– Approved Practitioner for Aviva Insurance
– Approved Counsellor for Hammett Street Consultants, Taunton, Somerset since 2013 (supporting GPs and Dr within Somerset, and Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service)
– Approved Counsellor for WPA
– Approved Counsellor for The Retail Trust Charity
– Experienced of working with Emergency Services Staff – Police and Fire personnel
– Approved Counsellor for Police Firearms Officers Association
– Approved Counsellor for Anxiety UK
I am particularly influenced by the work of Carl Roger, Caroline Spring, Babette Rothschild, Harriet Lerner and Bessel Van Der Kolk
I am committed to ongoing personal development, with a keen interest in working with trauma.