Credentials
Ethical Fully-Qualified Professional
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​