QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

It's always a good idea to check thoroughly through your therapists training and experience, so that you know what, and who you are paying for.. I believe that a therapists fee should reflect experience and training.


​An ethical therapist will be transparent with the training and experience they have gained.

I have a lot of experience, and have completed an immense amount of CPD, so that you get someone who is able to support you, and provide a good integration of the best and newest therapies.

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​Employed Experience 2002 - 2018
​I stopped all my employed and insurance work in 2018, because being helpful wasn't enough. I realised I need to be creative with the therapy I offer, this in turn has helped me become a better practitioner in every way.

• 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 community clinics, and a NHS hospitals' psychological therapies department
• Schools Counsellor, primary, secondary, pupil referral units (PRU) and social educational mental health schools (SEMH Schools) (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 - charity counsellor for those on low/no income
• NHS Bereavement & Palliative Care Service & Macmillan - bereavement & life-threatening illness
• Mental Health Advisor/support helplines
• Online Advice & Support for concerns around self-harm - TheSite.org (I think that this has now either changed its' name or ceased to exist)
• 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

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Qualifications

Also check where your therapist trained, was it an accredited, reputable, specialist training establishment? How experienced were the tutors that the therapist trained with..  
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• Post Graduate Certificate Lv7/Masters Level in 'Critical engagement - Person Centred & CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) Therapies' at Temenos - Joe Curran, Sheffield, UK
• AEDP Immersion: AEDP Lv1 Therapist (Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy) AEDP Institute, Dr. Diana Fosha Online, New York City, USA
• Certificate in Supervision - National Counselling Society (NCPS Accredited & Approved). Training approved by British Psychological Society. 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 - INTENSIVE TRAINING PROGRAM DEEPENING AND EXPANDING IFS - IFS Poland/IFS Institute Dr. Osnat Arbel
• Certificate in IFS Lv3 - IFS Portugal with Dr. Dick Schwartz (this is the highest level of IFS Training currently)
• Certificate in IFS Masterclass - Dr. Frank Anderson
• Certificate in IFS Informed EMDR - Bruce Hersey LCSW
• The Further Reaches of IFS - Unattached Burdens - Robert Falconer 
• IFS Trauma and Dissociation - with Joanne Twombly - Souliology Portugal (TBC May 2025)
• Lifespan Integration Therapy Lv1 & 2 with Lifespan Integration, Brighton & Hove. With Thanks to Vajralila - UK Lifespan Trainer.
• 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. With thanks to Tracey Walshaw and Frances McDonnell.
• 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, UK 
• Brainspotting/BSP Phase 3 - technical BSP training. Complex trauma, sports trauma, and EGO state work. Dr David Grand - Barcelona, Spain.
• Brainspotting for Addictions (known as The Crocodile Setup)- Works with your nervous system, to help recovery and regulation. Dr Roby Abeles (Australia) - London, UK
• Brainspotting Masterclasses -  4 days Barcelona, Spain, by 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, UK
• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma Themes Lv1 - Inclusive of live tutor contact hours, self-learning, experiential personal SP therapy/learning/teaching sessions, SP supervision/consultation practice. Dr. Pat Ogden's Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. With thanks to Esther Perez. Malaga, Spain
• Certificate in NLP Professional Coaching - Central College, England. Birmingham, UK
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy/DBT Essentials - With Dr. Lane Pederson, PsyD, LP, C-DBT
• Diploma in NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) With Maralyn Tucknott
• Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy - Central College England, Birmingham
• Certificate in Solution Focused Counselling - Central College England. Birmingham
• Certificate in Solution Focused Hypnotherapy - Central College England. Birmingham
• Certificate in Ericksonian Hypnosis - Central College England. Birmingham
• Counselling Skills Lv2 (now level 3) - Manchester
• Counselling Concepts Lv2 (now level 2) - Manchester

​Further training & Certificates
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• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (A.S.I.S.T) - Livingworks
• Adoption 
• 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
• EMDR & Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma: Somatic Techniques to Decrease Defensiveness and Facilitate Trauma with Ariel Schwartz
• Healing Broken Bonds: The Consequences of Traumatic Attachment with Janina Fisher, London, UK
• Intro to Existential Psychotherapy - with 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
• Informed IFS Trauma and Dissociation -  with Joanne Twombly & IFSCA
  
• ​Intro to Gestalt therapy 
• Intro to Hakomi - Hakomi Mallorca
• Intensive Interaction
• Health & Safety - QCF
• ​​Supporting mental health of LGBTQ
• Stabilizing the Unstable - In person with 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 -  In person with Dr. Stephen Porges - London, UK
• Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment - Babette Rothschild 
• Self Harm - Teaching School Alliance
• Suicide TALK - Living Works
• Timian certificate (challenging behaviour) - BILD
• Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS) 2020: Intensive with Dr. Frank Anderson
• Treating Dissociative Disorders (with EMDR & Parts/Ego States) - Dolores Mosquera & Kathy Steele (CPD Cert)
• Young people, sex & the law - Brook

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