Mary Leader, BSc, Dip Adults, Children, Young People, Clinical Supervisor, MBACP

Training, qualifications & experience

Qualifications:

• Registered Membership of MBACP
• Degree in Therapeutic Counselling
• Diploma in Theory & Practice of Counselling
• Diploma in working with Children and Young People.

Training:

• BACP Working with Mental Health in the workplace (2019)
• Ethical dilemmas in Children’s Palliative Care (2019)
• All mandatory training Equality, Diversity, Human Rights Safeguarding adults and Governance Awareness (2019)
• Safeguarding Children (Level 3) Forget me not children’s hospice (2018)
• Practising Existential Therapy Professor Ernesto Spinelli (2018)
• Essential Supervision update for clinical Supervisors Skills British Psychological Society(SBPS) Manchester (2018)
• Societal rape myths & traumatic reactions (April 2018)
• Supervision Skills (September 2018)
• Existential Therapy (October 2018)
• Level 3 Safeguarding Children(December 2018)
• Incident Debriefing Facilitator Training (2018)
• Supervision: relationship, authority & ethics (November 2017)
• Integrating artwork into counselling practice(October 2017)
• BACP Working safely &therapeutically with domestic abuse (April 2017)
• Detox Anxiety Live Well Stress Less (May 2016)
• PODS Trauma & the Body: Somatisation & Dissociation (March 2016)
• Effectively Treating Shame & Self-Criticism Using Compassion Focused Therapy Professor Paul Gilbert (August 2016)
• BACP Universities & Colleges Conference ‘Innovation and care’ (2015)
• BACP Certificate of Registration (2014,15,16,17,18,19)
• BACP Professional Develop Day York (2014)
• Introduction to Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) & Hypnotherapy St Gemma’s Hospice (2014)
• Spirituality, Beliefs & Culture St Gemma’s Hospice (2013)
• Endings & Book Review St Gemma’s Hospice (2013)
• Managing Eating Disorders in the Community Leeds Counselling (2012)
• Create Lasting Change Using the Power of the Inner Child, Leeds Counselling Penny         Parkes (2011)
• Celebrating Mental Health & Masculinity Leeds Metropolitan University (2011)
• Therapeutic Play Techniques with Children (2010)
• Bradford complementary therapists in cancer care, Bradford Cancer Support (2009)
• Awareness in bereavement care, the foundation course, Cruse (2009)
• Cruse bereavement after suicide, Doncaster Royal Infirmary (2009)
• Safeguarding children, Kirklees NHS (2009)
• Counselling children and young people, ESCAYP Emotional Support for Children and Young People (2009)
• Cognitive Behavior Therapy Manchester Centre for CBT(2008)
• Working with depression, new thinking and effective interventions, Skills Development Services Ltd (2008)
• CTI counselling training programme, Counselling Training Initiatives Ltd (2005)

Experience, have delivered counselling services/roles for the following organisations:

Forgetmenot Children's Hospice(December2017)

• LPP (London Psychiatrists and Psychology Consulting) (May 2013- Sept 2015)
• St Gemma’s Hospice Leeds (June 2012- July 2015)
• Titus Salts Grammar School, Bradford (2008- July 2014)
• Future Prospects, York (2009-2012, evening service)
• Cancer Support, Bradford (2008-2010):
• Cruse Bereavement GP Surgery, Wakefield (2007-2008):
• NHS (1999-2007)

Further information

Private, comfortable and secure counselling room available in a quiet road with off street parking.