Annot Dillon

Annot Dillon
Carnforth
Lancashire
LA5

tel: 01524 822045
web: web.mac.com/annot
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Counsellor Profile

“I was named Annot for a Walter Scott heroine and I’ve learned that Sir David Wilkie, the famous Scottish painter, was one of my distant ancestors. My maternal grand mother was a suffragette.

I've had a long and varied career with some sadnesses and many happy times. I started nurse training when I was 18 and met my husband, Roger, a doctor, while I was nursing in my 20s. We have two children. My daughter is a nurse and my son works in politics.

I completed my Open University degree while I was in my 30s.

I recently became a Quaker after standing on the touch line of Quakerism for around 20 years. I am committed to the Quaker campaigns to end war and for nuclear disarmament. I also attend clowning classes and have done dance improvisation in my time.

Roger and I live on the North Lancashire coast overlooking magnificent Morecambe Bay and we spend much of our free time walking and gardening.

I strongly believe that psychodrama and psychodramatic bodywork® can really add something to many peoples’ lives, as it has to mine”

I am a very highly qualified and experienced practitioner. I began my working life as a general nurse and became deeply interested in the power of psychodrama and action methods during the course of my career.

When clients come to me they can be confident that I will deal with them professionally yet with empathy. My objective is to help people live fully and in good health.

My role is multifaceted: I'm a presence, playful, brings freshness to situations, problems and experiences and sees humour in life as well as pathos. I relishes new adventures, am intuitive, have fertile curiosity, much creative energy, uses close and personal contact.

My work is empowering: I create a space into a place where anything, including the impossible, can happen!

Training, Qualifications & Experience (more info)

I am registered with UKCP, the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapists, and also with the BPA, the British Psychodrama Association. I am also a qualified general Nurse. I have an impressive array of qualifications. These include Advanced Diploma in Psychodrama Psychotherapy; Introductory and Certificate level training in Group Analytic Psychotherapy and RSA Certificate in Counselling Skills in the Development of Learning. I also hold the Certificate in Personnel Practice and also the Certificate in Training Practice from The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the professional body for those involved in the management and development of people.

I have also completed courses in Experience and Loss as well as in Rape and Abuse. I am also qualified via the Smoke Stop Facilitators training course

I continue my training with the Canadian, Susan Aaron, the creator and principal trainer in Psychodramatic Bodywork ® .

On top of these qualifications I also have a degree in Sciences from the Open University.

My work has included a Mind (the mental health charity) drop in centre and a Homeless Action drop in centre. I now work in the NHS psychotherapy clinic in Lancaster part time and in private practice.

Areas of counselling I deal with

Personality Disorders

Relationship Issues

Sexuality

Other areas of counselling I deal with

Not being everything you want to be
Emotional blocks
Physical pains that are inexplicable
Past hurts

Fees

£30 to £40 per hour for individual
£15 to £20 per 2.5 hour group
initial meeting £25 for individual, £10 for groups

Member Organisation(s)

UKCP	- Last checked by Counselling Directory on: 30th June 2008