Amanda Perl MSc Psychotherapist Counsellor MBPsS BACP (Accred) CBT Practitioner

Training, qualifications & experience

My belief is that each of us is unique with the potential for growth and development and can move forward in our own way. My practice is humanistic existential, integrating Person-Centred, Mindfulness, Transactional Analysis, Schema Therapy, CBT (recommended under the NICE Guidelines), Psychodynamic and Gestalt approaches.

Accredited Member of the British Association of Counsellors & Psychotherapists ("BACP"). Member of the British Psychological Society ("BPS"). Course Lead LIFE-FORCE Stage 4 BACP Accredited Counselling Diploma. Workshops and presentations delivered including at BPS Conferences and school INSET staff training days: Assertiveness and Relationships, Personality Disorders, Mindfulness, Health & Well-being, Addictions, Anxiety and Disordered Eating. Fellow practitioners, if you wish to train with me, CPD workshops are available in a range of interventions.

Previous positions: Clinical Lead, Team leader, Group Facilitator, Domestic Violence Lead, Trainer, Developer and Lead on Transtheoretical and Structured Day care programmes. Specific Recovery Service Programmes set up within large London Boroughs.

Initial training: long-term psychotherapy with outpatients NHS Department of Psychotherapy & Art Psychotherapy (up to 104 weeks per patient) with those amongst us facing serious challenges to mental health and diagnosed with personality disorders [including borderline, narcissistic, antisocial], bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

Experience also includes working with jointly commissioned third sector Charity/NHS and Dual Diagnosis Services. Additionally delivering training and interventions within the Criminal Justice System.

Qualifications and training include:

MSc in Psychology
BSc (Hons) in Psychology
Advanced (Integrative) Diploma in Counselling
Supervision
Group Psychotherapy
Couples Therapy
Eating Disorders & Nutrition
CBT for Depression
OCD, Phobias
Anxiety (Integrated approach)
Anger Management
Assertiveness
Emotional Abuse (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-36257791)
Bereavement
Mindfulness
Mindset (sports psychology)
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Personality Disorders
Schema Therapy
Gender and Sexuality
Addictive Thinking, Drugs & Alcohol, Gambling, Internet, Gaming, Porn, Codependency
Intuitive Recovery
Equality and Diversity
Change Management
Discourse analysis

Other areas of counselling I deal with

Further individual and group process work offered on prejudice; including internalised prejudice, racism, antisemitism, homophobia or any other form of discrimination towards the self and/or others.