About me
I am a Senior Systemic Family Psychotherapist, Consultant, Supervisor & Trainer with over 25 years of clinical experience in both the UK and internationally. I offer Face to face and Remote working. I am a specialist in working with young people, families, couples and individuals across lifespan and relational trauma. I am experienced in supporting clients through a wide range of presentations such as familial relationship; adoption & attachment;self-harm; identity (gender & sexual); grief & loss; domestic, sexual and gang violence; Neurodiversity; PTSD including where issues relate to chronic health and mental health diagnosis and the impact on the individual and family system
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications:
- EMDR (2001)
- MSc in Systemic Family Therapy (2007)
- Certificate in the Theory of Family & Couple Therapy in Systemic Practice (1998)
- Post Graduate Certificate in Community & Youth Work (1992)
Work Experience:
- Aspire Therapeutic Services, Cayman Islands - Systemic Family Therapist: March 2024-March 2026
- Freedom from Torture: Senior Systemic Family Therapist: January 2018-December 2022
- Redthread: Clinical Supervisor to the Hospital-based Youth Violence Intervention Programme: September 2018-September 2020
- Tavistick & Portman NHS Trust Refugee Team: Systemic Family Therapist (Honorary) February-September 2018
- Comberton Village College: Systemic Family Therapist, September 1999-July 2017
- Private Practice: 2007-Present
International Experience:
- Lead facilitator at 'On Her Terms' Summit for 13 Project leaders from 9 countries working with street-connected girls and young women, October 2018
- Lead facilitator at international conferences that accompanied the 2014 Street Child World Cup
- Facilitator at Street Child Connected Project in Durban, South Africa
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Further information
Making the decision to find a therapist is not an easy one and requires courage and bravery to reach out and say 'I| need help'.
I never underestimate this and do not assume that clients will want to share with me what is happening for them.
It has been, and remains, a privilege to hear clients share their stories with me, and I take that responsibility seriously. My aim and hope is to work alongside the client with their own 'expertise' as well as mine, to find new ways to enable whatever is happening in their life and impacting them and those around them, to be a little lighter.
