Credentials

I am a practitioner member registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (the BACP is accredited by the Professional Standards Authority set up by the UK Government's Health & Social Care Department). The BACP is a voluntary register and professional body with an ethical framework, which we as practitioners adhere to, in order to ensure that you as a client are receiving the best possible therapeutic care.

The counselling professions are widely unregulated and people without suitable qualificatons can still legally call themselves a counsellor and potentially harm vulnerable clients due to lack of training. I am DBS checked and work to a very high, professional standard with the appropriate training certifications, competency and professional membership which I hope will assure you, as my client, that you are in safe hands.

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Core Certifications:

• BACP Approved Diploma in Therapeutic (Psycho-Spiritual) Counselling from the Sweet Track Centre Somerset (working psychotherapeutically with competence in mental health, relationship, family, cultural and spiritual issues; body psychology, developmental psychology, psychosynthesis, PCT, Jungian, Gestalt.)

• Certificate of Proficiency from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (competency to practise psychotherapeutic counselling)

• Award in Safeguarding Children & Vulnerable Adults from the Sweet Track Centre

• Award in Addictions from the Sweet Track Centre

• Award in Eating Disorders from the Sweet Track Centre  

• Award in Childhood Mental Health from the Sweet Track Centre

• Graduate Certificate in Integrative Counselling from the University of Suffolk (working with cognitive behavioural therapy, attachment theory, psychodynamic and humanistic orientations to alleviate psychological distress)

• PREVENT, University of Suffolk (de-radicalisation)

• Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults, Suffolk County Council (in the context of adult, family, children and young people's counselling)

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Professional Research Interests:​

• Nature-Assisted Therapy (Practitioner Member of Ecopsychology UK)

• Transpersonal Psychology (Practitioner Member of the Transpersonal Coaches, Mentors and Therapists Network)

• Neurocardiology (Facilitator Member of HeartMath Institute)

• Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy (Practitioner/Companion Member of the British Focusing Association)

• Person-Centred Theory (Group Facilitator, the Person-Centred Association)

• GSRD Therapy (Mentorship Member of the Pink Therapy Network)​

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Further Training:​

• Cetificate in NVC and IFS integration, Mahakaruna Oxford

• Certificate in Professional Practice working with Gender, Sex & Relationship Diversity, UTPTP, American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists

• Active Hope Group Facilitation training, Active Hope London (grief and despair work, motivational interviewing, resilience coaching)

• Certified Clinical Specialism in Trauma, Trauma Institute International (focusing on planned interventions and single-session techniques in emergency traumatic stress intervention)​​

• Quality License Scheme accredited Diploma in Coaching, European Centre of Excellence (goal-oriented, metaphysical and motivational work)

• Understanding Autism, ADHD, ADD and Neurodiversity, FutureLearn

• Mentoring Boys and Young Men, Journeyman

• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Priority Academy Suffolk

• Mindful Communication and Non-Violent Communication (NVC) 

• Training in the Human Givens Approach from the Human Givens Institute (trauma intervention, emotional needs,  solution-focused, behavioural psychology)

• Eco-Art Therapy Training, Project Natureconnect

• Personal Coaching, the Coaching Academy London (wellbeing, career and relationship improvement)

• Certificate in Person-Centred Counselling from City Literary Institute Holborn

• Contemporary Analytical Psychology studies with Johannesburg Centre for Applied Jungian Studies (working with the social and political aspects of historic and contemporary therapy practice)

• Animist Psychology, School of Ancestral Medicine​

• EMDR Therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming to help PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Trauma Informed Care), Francine Shapiro

• ITEC Diploma in Holistic Therapy (massage, anatomy & physiology), City Lit, Covent Garden

• Rewind Technique for Trauma, PTSD and C-PTSD, Human Givens College

• Certified CPD Trainings in Existential Psychotherapy (and more)

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For more than a decade, through the course of my career and vocation, I have developed a creative and community-oriented approach, with specialised therapeutic skills. I continue to put people's wellbeing at the centre of my research, amidst local and planetary issues.

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I practise contextually taking into account the relevance of ancestral and historic, geopolitical, socioeconomic, environmental, systemic and biological factors affecting peoples' emotional and mental wellbeing and relationships, and capacities to thrive.

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I apply my phenomenological practice-based research to amplify the efficacy of evidence-based, empirical techniques integrated in a pluralistic person-centred way. All my therapeutic work is clinically supervised according to professional standards.

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Key Experience:

• Clinical Placement at Kakuma Counselling Service providing long-term and short-term individual therapeutic trauma interventions for LGBTQ+ refugees and group empowerment workshops for victims of torture and gender-based violence

• Clinical Placement at West Suffolk College providing counselling and safeguarding for students with overcoming child abuse, anxiety, stress and family-related issues

• Clinical Placement at Sweet Track Agency providing open-ended therapy to clients experiencing bereavement, rape crisis, anxiety, depression, trauma, family, relationship, spiritual and substance-related issues

• Community listening service at Aida Refugee Camp Palestine supporting individual survivors of violent conflict

• Safeguarding and facilitation at Adamama Permaculture Centre Israel providing group safety and support for addiction and substance related issues

• Art Therapy Assistant at Peckham Copplestone Centre assisting art psychotherapy for underprivileged people with complex psychosocial issues and medical conditions

• Assistant at UTPT Programme London helping people with disabilities to access sex and relationship education​