Qualifications

Qualifications

  • Post-Grad Diploma in Contemporary Psychotherapy 
    3 year course included training for Addiction, Trauma, Anxiety & Depression, with an outcome-orientated approach, utilising somatic awareness, including  learning both skills, principles and the practice of Contemporary Psychotherapy (Beeleaf Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy) also included:
  • Diploma in Applied Clinical Hypnosis in Contemporary Psychotherapy

 

 –  I adhere to the UKCP & BACP Ethical Principles and Code of Professional Conduct (under UK Jurisdiction)
–   Beeleaf Full Member
–   Public liability insured 
–   DBS checked
–   Clinical trainee member of UKCP in 4th year towards UKCP accreditation. 

 

Further Certifications

  • Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling (BACP accredited course)

 

  • Certificate in Working Creatively with Trauma and Triggers
  • Certificate in Working Compassionately with Anxiety and Depression
  • Certificate in Working Effectively with Addiction & Recovery
  • Certificate in Psychopathology in Psychotherapeutic practice
  • Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion
  • Certificate in Ethical Practice in Psychotherapy

 

  • Understanding Neurodiversity – Tigger Prichard
  • Exploring suicide with a client – Dr Andrew Reeves – BACP
  • Recognizing and Managing trauma – Samaritans (HEE)
  • Listening Skills and Emotional Health – Samaritans (HEE)
  • Understanding and Responding to Grief – Samaritans (HEE)
  • Women and Gambling Harms – with Clare Leakey at Gam Care
  • Young People Gaming and Gambling Harm, Clare Leakey & Adele Bourne at Gam Care
  • Forensic approach to homicide and domestic violence by Professor Jane Monckton Smith
  • Working with Trauma – Beata Webb – Pegasus Men’s Wellbeing CIC
  • DBT Skills Training: Essentials™ course – British Isles DBT Training
  • Integrating CBT and exposure and response prevention for treatment of GAD, Panic disorder, OCD, social anxiety and phobias. (PESI)

 

Volunteering Experience

  • Pegasus Men’s Wellbeing CIC (UK)
  • Bangkok Community Help (homeless charity)
  • Co-founder of It’s Okay Not To Be Okay (Girls) 
  • Mary Ann Evans Hospice (UK)

 

Privacy Policy

I take your privacy seriously and I am fully committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected, from when you first make an enquiry, through until after therapy comes to a completion.  

​Your information does not get shared with anyone else within my private practice, as I manage my practice myself, and operate my business as an independent ”sole trader”.

Before Therapy begins, I will send you a detailed contract and agreement which we can make necessary changes to if possible, before you agree to the terms.

Confidentiality

Confidentiality and Security is vital.
The information shared with me is held in strict confidence and all electronically stored information is stored on a password protected drive. 

I am required to have regular supervision with a professional, psychotherapy Supervisor as a requirement for UKCP and it’s important for me to make sure I am offering my best services. I never disclose any personally identifying information about my clients within supervision.

In adherence with the UKCP ethical code, I am obliged to break confidentiality if you were to disclose involvement in or knowledge of an act of terrorism, money laundering or drugs trafficking. In addition I have an agency policy to report instances of harm to self or to others and I do have a legal obligation to report harm or abuse to a minor or vulnerable adult.

GDPR Statement 

Under the General Data Protection Regulations 2018, you have certain rights. These are: 

  • You are allowed to see your notes. This is facilitated by making a formal request.
  • Records are kept for 5 years after termination of therapy and then destroyed.
  • Having your records amended (change of name and address)