I have been fully qualified since 1995 when I finished my four year training at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education (CCPE) in Transpersonal* Counselling and Psychotherapy.
As I have an interest in the way that our bodies reflect our mental well being I have also trained in Embodied Relational Therapy with Nick Totton. I am also an EMDR and EFT trained practitioner.
I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist and I have the Cascade Diploma in the Supervision of Individuals and Groups and supervise counsellors, psychotherapists and others in the helping professions.
I am a member of the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation and I am one of that society’s training faculty. As a Member of BACP I am bound by its Ethical framework for good practice in counselling and psychotherapy and subject to the Professional Conduct Procedure for the time being in force.
Prior to my move to the therapy world, I worked in information and business research and management, within the medical, education and business consultancy environments.
*Transpersonal therapy values people’s experience of a deeper or wider sense of who they are (their sense of greater connectedness with others, nature, or the "spiritual" dimension) as a valid area of personal growth and normal expression of human-ness.