Autism supportive Person Centred Counselling
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing)
My work background
Since my original training, as a Person-Centred counsellor in 2002, I have been committed to creating safe spaces for people to heal.
I am accredited by the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS), with 21 years experience of counselling. I was previously an accredited family mediator with 15 years experience of mediation and parent support with parents & teens and couples divorcing, separating or dissolving civil partnerships; within statutory and charitable sectors. I bring insights from these other areas of work into my counselling practice.
Training and Qualifications
Higher National Diploma in Person-Centred Counselling 2004
Additional training in Suicide prevention , Trauma training with Babette Rothschild, Tony Buckley and Miriam Taylor
Post-Graduate Diploma in Systemic Practice 2010 to work with families
Trained and accredited to deliver Positive Parenting Groups to parents of 2-12 year olds and teens
Qualified and Accredited Family Mediator - Family Mediation Council 2012
Post Graduate Diploma in Contemporary Trauma Practice - Developing Competence in Applying Neuroscience to Therapy February 2020 - January 2021
Registered and Accredited Member of National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society; adhering to their ethical framework; including attending regular continuing professional development and clinical supervision
EMDR fully trained practitioner and member of EMDR UK and Sussex group-since 2021
IFS UK (Internal Family Systems) Level 1 Training-2024
I have full professional liability insurance
CPD
‘Successful practice when counselling clients on the Autism Spectrum’ - May 2019 Aspire Training
‘In the Shadows of Shame’ training day with Robert Downes - January 2020
Phil Mollon - The Disintegrating Self -Understanding and working with adults with ADHD and/or autistic spectrum traits - April 2020
Into the Heartwood-Intentional Nature Experiencing - Eco therapy training day - April 2020
Confer - Post Slavery Syndrome. Exploring the clinical aspects of the trans Atlantic Slave Trade - June 2020
Post Graduate Diploma in Contemporary Trauma Practice - Developing Competence in Applying Neuroscience to Therapy February 2020 - January 2021
Internal Family Systems: A Step by step guide through clinical applications - PESI training
2121-22 - EMDR trained and member EMDR UK and Sussex Group
May 2022 - EMDR therapy and suicide training day
September 2022 - Sussex based EMDR therapists sharing event
November 2022 - Preoccupied Attachment: Fear of Abandonment and Chronic Insecurity training day
March 2023-Managing therapeutic endings for clients with attachment difficulties
March 2023-How to Identify and Treat Dissociation (Even When It’s Subtle) NICABM
EMDR UK Association Annual Conference & AGM 2023 (Glasgow) Friday, 24th & Saturday, 25th March 2023
IFS UK (Internal Family Systems) Level 1 Training-2024
Counselling Experience
4 Sight Sussex (previously West Sussex Association for the Blind)
Terrance Higgins Trust, South With people affected by HIV
Cardinal Newman RC Secondary school, Hove School counsellor with 11-19 year olds
Brighton Women's Centre low cost counselling service
Mankind UK As a sexual abuse counsellor
Hendrickx Associates and in Private Practice since 2018
Trauma Counselling
Autism Supportive Counselling
With Amber Redish