Qualifications & Experience
Experience
Experience
- The Priory - Therapist/counsellor - adults & young people - short to long-term work
- Third sector orgnanisation - Adults counsellor - funded by NHS/CCG - short to long-term work
- Schools counsellor (North West) - Inc. pupils, parents/carers, teachers & staff
- 4 Employee assistance programmes (counselling employees nationwide) - Adults counsellor/therapist - short-term work (6 weeks)
- Looked after children's counsellor Inc. parents/carers - funded by Wigan local authority
- Substance misuse counsellor - funded by Liverpool NHS/CCG
- Suicide prevention practitioner - PAPYRUS - national charity
- Counsellor & Mental Health Practitioner - Forty Second Street - Manchester - specialist support for young people (11-25 year olds). funded by NHS/CCG
- Online Counsellor - Resile Ltd.
- Relate - North & South Manchester - counsellor
- Face to Face - counsellor for those on low/no income
- NHS Bereavement & Palliative Care Service & Macmillan - bereavement & life threatening illness
- Pupil referral units & EBD schools - counsellor
- Mental health advice/support help lines
- On line advice & support for concerns around self-harm - TheSite.org
- GP's surgeries - counselling & mental health assessments.
- Therapeutic residential units, residential homes & schools for people of all ages with Epilepsy, learning & social difficulties including ASC/Autism & Asperger's.
- Residential/assessment units, leaving care units - Bury, Wirral, Wigan, Manchester, Alderley Edge
- The Samaritans - 2 years 2002 - voluntary
Qualifications
- Certificate in Supervision - British Psychological Society's (BPS) approved certificate in essential supervision
- Post Graduate Certificate Lv7/Masters Level in 'Critical engagement - Person Centred & CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) Therapies' at Temenos - Sheffield
- Diploma Lv4 in Theory & Practice of Counselling (This course focussed solely on the Person Centred approach, and was Accredited by British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy/BACP) - Person Centred Counselling Services (PCCS) Training Partnership - Manchester
- Brainspotting/BSP Phase 2- approved by the British Psychological Society a heavily Person Centred approach to process trauma.
- Brainspotting/BSP Phase 2 - approved by the British Psychological Society treatment for trauma, and many other concerns.
- Brainspottting/BSP Phase 3 - Technical BSP training by the founder David Grand. Complex trauma, sports trauma, and EGO work.
- Eye Movement Integration Therapy Lv1 - a specialised neuro-therapy designed to treat trauma & PTSD.
- Eye Movement Integration Therapy Lv2 & advanced - a specialised neuro-therapy designed to treat phobia and deep rooted trauma & PTSD
- Certificate in NLP professional coaching
- Diploma in NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming)
- Counselling skills LvII (now level III)
- Counselling concepts LvI (now level II)
Further training & Certificates
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (A.S.I.S.T) - Livingworks
- Awareness of Child Abuse & Neglect
- Bereavement & palliative care counselling - NHS/Trafford Bereavement & Palliative Care Service
- Child & Adult safeguarding (refreshed annually)
- Child trafficking training
- Conflict resolution
- Counter terrorism training (WRAP)
- Counselling young people - Relate
- Data protection
- Domestic violence - Relate
- Family support training - Beechwood cancer care
- Gestalt therapy dream work
- Group work - NHS
- Epilepsy training - The David Lewis Centre
- Intro to Existential Psychotherapy - Emmy van Deurzen
- Intro to Gestalt therapy
- Intensive interaction
- Health & safety - QCF
- Solution Focussed Hypnotherapy - Central College England
- Supporting mental health of LGBTQ people
- Mental health - NHS
- Person centred sand tray work - PCCS training partnership - Manchester
- Person centred couples counselling
- Self harm - Teaching School Alliance
- Suicide TALK - Living Works
- Timian certificate (challenging behaviour) - BILD
- Young people, sex & the law - Brook