Qualifications
Existential Supervision Training, NSPC & Middlesex University, one week intensive module, completed 2017
Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy, NSPC & Middlesex University, London – 5 years
Post Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy and Counselling, NSPC & Middlesex University, London – 2 years
Post Graduate Certificate in Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent’s University, London – 1 year
BSC (Hons) Psychology, Newcastle University – 3 years
Current Work
Private practice in London and Oxfordshire: I see clients at both these locations over three days, as well as having some Skype/Zoom sessions. I have regular supervision and continuously embark on training days and conferences. As I am aware that there is always room for new awareness, the illumination of blindspots and many potential differing perspectives, supervision, personal therapy and CPD ensures my practice is ethical, and continuously being questioned and developed.
Currently, I am a Senior Supervisor at EASE Wellbeing: overseeing the implementation of a short-term intervention in primary care at two GP surgeries, as well as medium term therapy online. I oversee the work of clinicians who are conducting psychological assessments and risk assessments, as well as delivering ongoing therapy to clients. I manage client allocations and liaise with GPs regarding onward referrals. I am involved in the continuing development of the intervention and recruitment and training of new clinicians. I am involved in discussions with commissioning groups and the marketing of the company to secure new projects and pilot studies. I have conducted extensive NHS approved research into the experience of this intervention from the service users’ perspective and I am currently involved in writing journal articles born out of this research.
Credentials
Chartered Psychologist with the BPS
Counselling Psychologist on the HCPC register
Accredited member of the BACP register
I am a member of the SEA
I abide by HCPC, BPS, BACP’s Ethical Code of Professional Conduct
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Publications and Research
The Existential Experimentation Intervention, Two Case Studies: Existential-Experimentation-an-exploration-of-two-clients-relating-to-the-theme-of-ŒNaked-and-Dangerous
Existential Experimentation: ExistentialAnalysisJournal28.1.January2017-2
Doctoral Thesis: The experience of Existential Experimentation from the service users’ perspective in primary care
CPD:
Working with the Pain of Loss, with Dr Jan McGregor and Dr Phyllis Kosminsky, March 2022/
Working with Transgender, Non-Binary and Gender-Questioning Clients: Building a Gender Affirming Practice, with Laura Scarrone Bonhomme, October 2021
Child Sexual Abuse: Hope for Healing, with Carolyn Spring, August 2021.
CFS/ME Workshop Part 2, June 2021
CFS/ME Workshop Part 1, Talk Wandsworth, June 2021.
Working with trauma memories, with Carolyn Spring, June 2021.
Healing early attachment wounds – powerful somatic strategies for lasting change, with Diane Poole-Heller, 14th January 2020.
Trauma and the Body, with Carolyn Spring, January 2020.
Working with trauma triggers and flashbacks, with Carolyn Spring, December 2020.
Helping solve the puzzle of ME/CFS, Individual Psychology Programme at The Optimum Health Clinic, September 2020 – January 2021.
Trauma Defined: Bessel van der Kolk on The Body Keeps the Score, online seminar, 5th May 2020.
Working with Dependency in Clients with Complex Trauma, an evening webinar with Kathy Steele, 30th April 2020.
Moving your practice online. Online course by Kate Anthony, March 2020.
The Web of Shame in the Therapeutic Space, with Christiane Sanderson, London, February 2020.
Resilience and Post-traumatic growth. An evening webinar with Linda Graham, January 2020.
Fatigue Super Conference, covering ‘You have to look at the whole patient’, ‘What stops people healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia’ , ‘Subtypes of ME/CFS/Fibromyalgia’ ‘The three stages of recovery’ and ‘Bodily systems in ME/CFS/Fibromyalgia’ with The Optimum Health Clinic, June 2019.
Pain, parts, illness & identity: Somatic psychology, EMDR therapy for chronic pain and illness with Dr Arielle Schwartz, 23rd May 2019.
DID, BPD, or C-PTSD Diagnostic Assessment and Therapeutic Implications with Dr Suzette Boon, London, 22nd March 2019.
Couples Therapy: Dynamic Approaches for Working with Anger and Aggression with Susanna Abse, London, 8th March 2019.
Trauma and The Body with Christiane Sanderson, Miriam Taylor and Jamie Marich, London, 8th-9th February 2019.
Working with Dissociative Disorders with Carolyn Spring, London, 26th January 2019
Family and Systems, NSPC, 7th-12th January 2019
Dealing with Distress with Carolyn Spring, London, 23rd November 2018
The SEA at 30 – Looking ahead to Existential Therapy in 2048, London, 10th November 2018
Recovery Oriented Services in Mental Health, De Vere West One, London on 28th September 2018
Psychological Therapies in the NHS, New Savoy Conference on 15th-16th March 2018
Depression Boot Camp: A New Look at an Old Dilemma, a CPD Workshop led by Dr Ryan Kemp on 26th November 2016
SEA Conference – Insider / Outsider on 30th Sept – 1st Oct 2016
Eating Disorders: Developing a Gold Standard Service on June 2016
Safeguarding Training and Play Therapy with adolescents, a workshop with Place2Be on 5th August 2015
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