Professional Standards
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Qualifications, Training, Experience
Professional Practice
- Professionally trained in London and the South West, my practice is long established (2007), and well respected locally.
- I work with self-referrals and people recommended and referred to me from professionals and organisations across the whole of the UK.
- Alongside my private practice, I ran clinics as a Senior High Intensity Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor in the NHS for over 10 years (IAPT - Improving Access to Psychological Therapies)
Evidence-Based Therapy
- During my work with IAPT in the NHS, I trained and subsequently specialised in Counselling for Depression ( PCE-CfD - Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression)
- I then qualified as a PCE-CFD Clinical Supervisor.
- PCE-CfD is an effective, evidence-based therapy for low mood & mild to moderate depression, recognised by NICE (The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence).
Professional Standards
I am registered with the Professional Standards Authority Register - no. 019950
This register lists therapists who have demonstrated high professional standards and is in place so that you can choose a counsellor who has been independently assessed and approved.
I am an ACTO Level 1 member - Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Online
Professional Qualifications
- Somatic Trauma Informed Coach - ICF & CPD Accredited (International Coaching Federation & Continuing Professional Development)
- Certified Rewind Technique Practioner - British Psychological Society Approved (BPS) International Association for Rewind Trauma Therapy
- Certified Bereavement Counsellor
- Certified Online and Telephone Counsellor
- Certificate in Essential Supervision Skills - British Psychological Society approved (BPS)
- Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression Supervisor (PCE-CfD) - Metanoia Institute, London
- Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression Practitioner (PCE-CfD) - Metanoia Institute, London
- BACP Accreditation Status (continuous since 2009)
- Diploma in Counselling Children and Adolescents - Iron Mill Institute, Exeter
- Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling - Weymouth College
- VRQ Certificate in Youth work - DYCS, Dorset County Council
- CPCAB Certificate in Counselling Studies - Weymouth College
- CPCAB Certificate in Counselling Skills - Weymouth College
- CACDP British Sign Language Level 1 - Weymouth Adult Learning Centre
Post-Qualifying Additional Training
I work in accordance with the BACP Ethical framework for Good Practice and I am committed to continuing professional development (CPD) - I undertake a minimum of 30 hours CPD per year.
My additional CPD training is extensive, and includes;
- Healing Codependency: Self Hate to Self Love
- The Rewind Technique (Trauma Therapy)
- PTSD
- Working therapeutically with Complex PTSD
- Confidence in the Menopause
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Online Counselling
- Anxiety and Grief
- Imposter Syndrome & Low Self-Esteem
- Child Sexual Abuse
- Trauma
- Polyvagal Theory
- Inner-Child
- Shame
- Perfectionism
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
- Asperger's Syndrome Enhanced Skills Training
- Trauma and the Body: Dissociation & Somatisation
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Compassion Focused Therapy
- Bereavement Counselling
- Bereavement by Suicide
- ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy)
- Understanding Your Eating ~ Metaphors & Rituals as expression in Dissociative Eating
- Surviving Childhood Abuse & Parenting
- Domestic Abuse