Qualifications

• Master of Arts (MA) in Counselling & Psychotherapy
• Post Graduate Diploma in Psychosexual & Relationship Therapy
• Professional Graduate Certificate in Education
• Higher National Diploma in Integrative Counselling
• Foundation Certificate in Couples Counselling

 Counselling Experience

I have over 20 years experience as a therapist and counselling tutor. 

• I have experience of working within the primary care sector, offering short term, solution focused therapy to patients at GP centres.

• This work provided me with valuable insight into the range of issues that people approach their GP's for - usually when they feel they've reached crisis point.  The opportunity to provide the  desperately sought therapeutic intervention for individuals at this significant point in their lives was hugely rewarding.   

• In this work I gained the essential skills of providing short term solution focused therapy to apply to a range of common presenting symptoms. This helped to reduce the pressure on GP waiting lists as patients seeking mental health support were able to more readily access it.

• I also worked for a children's charity offering counselling to children in schools.  This was an invaluable experience as is provided me with the opportunity to sit alongside children whilst they expressed their fears, frustrations and confusion about events in their life they had no control over.  What I came to realise from this work is that these are the issues that children carry into their adult lives, if they don't have the opportunity and safe space to be heard. 

Our early unmet needs as children remain our unmet needs as adults...