QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
It's always a good idea to check through your therapists training and experience, so that you know what, and who you are paying for..
A good therapist will be transparent with their training and experience.
Employed Experience 2002 - 2018
(I stopped all employed and insurance work in 2018, to concentrate on my private clients)
- Official Government Departments - mental health assessments, short term therapy/counselling,
- The Priory - Therapist/counsellor - adults & young people - short to long-term work
- Third Sector Organization - Anger & Trauma, Adults counsellor - funded by NHS/CCG - short to long-term work, within the community and a NHS hospitals' psychological therapies department.,
- Schools Counsellor (Over 50 schools around the North West) - Inc. pupils, parents/carers, teachers & staff.
- 7* Employee Assistance Programmes (counselling employees nationwide) - Adults counsellor/therapist - short-term work (6 weeks), mental health assessments & crisis work. Also completing, assessments for NHS services and GP's.
- Looked After Children's (LAC) 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
- 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 & SEMH Schools - counsellor
- Mental Health Advisor/support helplines
- Online 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
- Residential/Assessment units, Leaving Care Units - Bury, Wirral, Wigan, Manchester, Alderley Edge
- The Samaritans - 2 years 2002 - voluntary
- Brainspotting UK - training assistant for Phase 1,2,3 in Manchester, London & Brighton
Qualifications
- Post Graduate Certificate Lv7/Masters Level in 'Critical engagement - Person Centred & CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) Therapies' at Temenos - Sheffield, UK
- AEDP Immersion: AEDP Lv1 Therapist (Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy) AEDP Institute, Dr. Diana Fosha
- Certificate in Supervision - National Counselling Society (NCS Accredited & Approved). Training approved by British Psychological Society. Manchester, UK
- Certificate in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Lv1 (In training)
- 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 - INTENSIVE TRAINING PROGRAM DEEPENING AND EXPANDING IFS - IFS Poland/IFS Institute Dr. Osnat Arbel
- Certificate in IFS Lv3 - IFS Portugal with Dr. Dick Schwartz
- Certificate in IFS Masterclass - Dr. Frank Anderson
- Certificate in IFS Informed EMDR - Bruce Hersey LCSW
- The Further Reaches of IFS - Unattached Burdens - Robert Falconer
- Diploma Lv4 in Theory & Practice of Counselling (This course focused solely on the Person Centred approach, and was Accredited by British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy/BACP, founded by Pete Sanders) - Person Centred Counselling Services (PCCS) Training Partnership - Manchester.
- Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy - CECCH. Birmingham, UK
- Brainspotting/BSP Phase 1 - approved by the British Psychological Society a heavy Person Centred and neurological approach to process trauma, and other concerns. Dr Mark Grixti. Birmingham, UK
- 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 (Australia) - London, UK
- Brainspotting Masterclass - Barcelona, Spain, Dr David Grand.
- Eye Movement Integration Therapy Lv1 - a specialized neurotherapy designed to treat trauma & PTSD. Eva Pollani. Bath, UK
- Eye Movement Integration Therapy Lv2 & Supervision/advanced - a specialized neurotherapy designed to treat phobia and deep-rooted trauma & PTSD. Eva Pollani Bath
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy - Lv1 Trauma Themes (I will complete training in March 2023)
- Certificate in NLP Professional Coaching - Central College, England. Birmingham, UK
- Diploma in NLP (Neurolinguistic 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)
Further training & Certificates
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (A.S.I.S.T) - Livingworks
- Adoption approved
- Attachment training
- Awareness of Child Abuse & Neglect
- Bereavement & palliative care counselling - NHS/Trafford Bereavement & Palliative Care Service
- Child & Adult safeguarding
- Child trafficking training
- The Neurobiology of Compassion: Clinical Applications for Therapists
- Conflict resolution
- Counterterrorism 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 - Alderly Edge, Manchester
- 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
- The Integrated Trauma Therapist: Incorporating IFS with EMDR, SP, CPT, AEDP, and DBT, for Treating Complex Trauma and PTSD
- Returning to Wholeness - Understanding and Integrating Trauma - with Dr. Gabor Maté
- Intro to Gestalt therapy
- Intro to Hakomi - Hakomi Mallorca
- Intensive Interaction
- Health & Safety - QCF
- Supporting mental health of LGBTQ
- Stabilizing the Unstable - With thanks to Dr. Janina Fisher (CPD Cert)
- Mental Health - NHS
- Person Centred sand tray work - PCCS training partnership - Manchester
- Person Centred couples counselling
- Polyvagal Theory, Oxytocin, and the Neurobiology of Love - Dr. Stephen Porges - London
- Self Harm - Teaching School Alliance
- Suicide TALK - Living Works
- Timian certificate (challenging behaviour) - BILD
- Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS) 1 2020: Intensive with Dr. Frank Anderson
- Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS) June 2022: Dr. Frank Anderson
- Treating Dissociative Disorders (with EMDR & Parts/Ego States) - Dolores Mosquera & Kathy Steele (CPD Cert)
- Young people, sex & the law - Brook
Office 19, 140 Mersey House, Speke Rd, Garston, Liverpool L19 2PH
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