Credentials

This is the boring and dry long list of much of my training and experience, but which I hope gives you some confidence about whether I might have the skills and knowledge to support you. Here goes...

I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and belong to their Coaching division. I am also an Accredited Counsellor with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). The BACP and NCPS are accredited by the Professional Standards Authority set up by the UK Government's Health & Social Care Department.  I'm also registered with the Mindfulness Teachers' Register in the UK. In order to join these professional ethical bodies I have had to prove that I have passed professional qualifications and work to good professional standards to ensure that you, as a client, are  able to receive the best possible therapeutic care. I have also received enhanced-DBS checks (for working with children and vulnerable adults). I aim to be a culturally-sensitive, trauma-informed, and non-oppressive practitioner. You are in safe hands.

​Core Certifications:

• BACP Approved Diploma in Therapeutic (Psycho-Spiritual) Counselling from the Sweet Track Centre Somerset (working psycho-therapeutically with competence in mental health, body, relationship, childhood/family, cultural and spiritual issues; embodied, phenomenological and transpersonal psychology modalities rooted in a humanistic, person-centred orientation.)

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

• 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

• Certificate of Higher Education in Integrative Counselling from the University of Suffolk (working with cognitive behavioural therapy, attachment theory, psychodynamic and humanistic approaches 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)

Research Interests:​

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

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

• Heart-Brain, Social and Global Coherence (Practitioner Member of HeartMath Institute)

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

• Person-Centred Theory (Therapist and Facilitator, registered with the Person-Centred Association)

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

Professional Development (CPD):​

• CPCAB Certificate in Therapeutic Group Facilitation, Creative Counsellors CIC

• Certificates 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, Centre of Excellence, UK (Positive Psychology)

• 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) comprehensive introductory online course

• ITEC Diploma in Massage Therapy, City Lit, Covent Garden

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

• Certified Trainings in Existential Psychotherapy 

• Many more CPD trainings and hours of research ​

I practise contextually taking into account the relevance of ancestral and historic, geopolitical, socioeconomic, environmental, systemic and biological factors affecting peoples's emotional and mental wellbeing and relationships, and capacities to thrive. I apply my phenomenological practice-based research to amplify the efficacy of evidence-based, empirical techniques integrated in a person-centred way. All my therapeutic work is clinically supervised according to professional standards.

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 Fairlands Middle School counselling children and young people with issues pertaining to ADHD, domestic abuse, bullying and anxiety

• 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 Copleston Centre assisting art psychotherapy for underprivileged people with complex psychosocial issues and medical conditions

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

Ethics:

Clients need to be able to participate freely as they work with practitioners of the counselling professions towards their desired goals. This requires clients to be able to trust their practitioner with their wellbeing and sensitive personal information. Therefore, as a member of the BACP, I take being trustworthy as a serious ethical commitment. 

I have agreed that I will: 

• Put clients first

• Show respect

• Build an appropriate relationship with clients

• Maintain integrity 

• Demonstrate accountability and candour 

You can read more about the BACP ethical framework by clicking the button below which will take you to a shortened PDF handout made especially for clients.