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Qualifications & Experience

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​Experience

  • 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 (North West) - Inc. pupils, parents/carers, teachers & staff
  • 5 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 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

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​Qualifications​
  • Post Graduate Certificate Lv7/Masters Level in 'Critical engagement - Person Centred & CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) Therapies' at Temenos - Sheffield
  • Certificate in Supervision - British Psychological Society's (BPS) approved certificate in essential supervision
  • 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 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 
  • Brainspottting/BSP Phase 3 - Technical BSP training. Complex trauma, sports trauma, and EGO state work. Dr, David Grand - Barcelona
  • Brainspotting for addictions - Works with your nervous system, to help recovery and regulation. Dr Roby Ayles - London
  • Eye Movement Integration Therapy Lv1 - a specialised neuro-therapy designed to treat trauma & PTSD. Eva Pollani. Bath
  • Eye Movement Integration Therapy Lv2 & 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 Solution Focussed Counselling - Central College England. Birmingham
  • Certificate in Solution Focussed 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)

​Further training & Certificates
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  • 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 
  • ​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
  • Intensive interaction
  • Health & safety - QCF
  • ​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
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