I trained as a counsellor at York St John University (Advanced Diploma) and at Keele University (MA) before completing my PhD in counselling and supervision at Leeds University.
More recently, I have completed the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation (ESTD) psychotherapy training for working with complex dissociative disorders.
I have also completed a Diploma in Embodied Relational Therapy with Nick Totton and a Certificate in Somatic Trauma Therapy with Babette Rothschild at the Northern College for Body Psychotherapy.
Both of these approaches pay attention to how emotional experience, including stress and trauma, is stored and communicated through the body.
I trained as a psychodynamic supervisor with the Westminster Pastoral Foundation (WPF).
I am a member of the teaching faculty of ESTD and a Registered Practitioner with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.