QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

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​Experience

• Official Government Departments - mental health assessments, short term therapy/counselling, 
• The Priory - Therapist/counsellor - adults & young people - short to long-term work
• Third sector organisation - Adults counsellor  - funded by NHS/CCG - short to long-term work
• Schools counsellor (Over 50 schools around the North West) - Inc. pupils, parents/carers, teachers & staff. 
• 5* Employee assistance programmes (counselling employees nationwide) - Adults counsellor/therapist - short-term work (6 weeks), mental health assessments & crisis work.
• 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 UK - 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
• BSP UK - training assistant

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Qualifications​

• Post Graduate Certificate Lv7/Masters Level in 'Critical engagement - Person Centred & CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) Therapies' at Temenos - Sheffield, UK
• Certificate in Supervision - British Psychological Society's (BPS) approved certificate in essential supervision, Manchester, UK
• Certificate in Ego State Therapy with EMDR - Robin Shapiro, London, UK
• Certificate in EMDR 1, 2 & 3 - Approved EMDR-UK training. Dr. Derek Farrell, Liverpool, UK
• Certificate in IFS Lv1 - IFS UK Dr. Osnat Arbel
• Certificate in IFS Lv2 - IFS Poland/IFS Institute Dr. Osnat Arbel
• Certificate in IFS Lv3 - IFS Portugal with Dr. Dick Schwartz
• Certificate in IFS Masterclass - Dr. Frank Anderson
• The Further Reaches of IFS - Unattached Burdens - Robert Falconer
• 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
• Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy - CECCH

• Brainspotting/BSP Phase 1 - approved by the British Psychological Society a heavily Person Centred approach to process trauma. Dr Mark Grixti.Birmingham
• Brainspotting/BSP Phase 2 - approved by the British Psychological Society treatment for trauma, and many other concerns. Dr Mark Grixti. Brighton 
• Brainspotting/BSP Phase 3 - technical BSP training. Complex trauma, sports trauma, and EGO state work. Dr, David Grand - Barcelona, Spain.
• Brainspotting for Addictions - The Crocodile Setup - Works with your nervous system, to help recovery and regulation. Dr Roby Ayles - London, UK
• Brainspotting Masterclass - Barcelona, Spain, Dr David Grand.
• Eye Movement Integration Therapy Lv1 - a specialised neuro-therapy designed to treat trauma & PTSD. Eva Pollani. Bath, UK
• Eye Movement Integration Therapy Lv2 & Supervision/advanced - a specialised neuro-therapy designed to treat phobia and deep rooted trauma & PTSD. Eva Pollani Bath
• Certificate in NLP Professional Coaching - Central College England. Birmingham
• Diploma in NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming)
• Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy - Central College England
• Certificate in Solution Focused Counselling - Central College England. Birmingham
• Certificate in Solution Focused Hypnotherapy - Central College England. Birmingham
• Certificate in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy - Central College England. Birmingham
• Counselling skills LvII (now level III) 
• Counselling concepts LvI (now level II)

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​Further training & Certificates
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• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (A.S.I.S.T) - Livingworks
• Adoption training
• Attachment training
• Awareness of Child Abuse & Neglect
• Bereavement & palliative care counselling - NHS/Trafford Bereavement & Palliative Care Service
• Child & Adult safeguarding 
• ​Child trafficking training
• Conflict resolution
• Counter terrorism training (WRAP)
• Counselling young people - Relate
• Data protection/GDPR
• 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 - Dr. Emmy van Deurzen
• Integration of Mind, Brain and Body in the Treatment of Trauma - with:  Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
• Intro to Gestalt therapy
• Intro to Hakomi 
  
• Intensive interaction
• Health & safety - QCF
• ​​Supporting mental health of LGBTQ
• Mental health - NHS
• Person centred sand tray work - PCCS training partnership - Manchester
• Person centred couples counselling
• Polyvagal Theory, Oxycontin, and the Neurobiology of Love - Dr. Stephen Porges
• Self harm - Teaching School Alliance
• Suicide TALK - Living Works
• Timian certificate (challenging behaviour) - BILD
• Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS): Intensive with Dr. Frank Anderson
• Young people, sex & the law - Brook

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