Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications 

I have a Masters degree in Humanistic Person-Centred Psychotherapy from The Sherwood Institute in Nottingham which was awarded by the University of Birmingham (2008).  

Since qualifying, I have completed the following additional training:

2026 – Working with Terminal Ambivalence
2025 – Working with Adult Adoptees
2025 – Complex Trauma Conference
2024 – Understanding OCD and “Pure O” (David Veale, BACP)
2024 – OCD and How Therapy Can Help (Sarah Ingraham, BACP)
2024 – Complex Trauma Conference
2023 – Understanding Your Eating (Julia Buckroyd)
2023 – Understanding Overeating (Dolores O’Malley)
2023 – “Abnormal” and “Normal” Eating (Maggie Turp)
2023 – BACP Race, Culture and Discrimination
2022 – International Trauma Conference
2022 – Understanding Self‑harm
2021 – Understanding the Menopause
2021 – Autism and Mental Health Conference
2021 – Existential Therapy Masterclass with Irvin Yalom
2020 – Supporting Gay or Gender Questioning Young People
2020 – Sexual and Gender Identity
2020 – Co‑dependency
2020 – Releasing Trauma from the Body
2020 – Working Online
2019 – The Impact of Anxious Attachment
2019 – Women and Girls on the Autistic Spectrum
2019 – The Dissociated Self and Autism
2019 – Working with Autism, ADHD and Asperger’s
2018 – National Autistic Society Professional Conference
2018 – Creative and Passionate Uses of Supervision
2018 – Shame and Self‑Loathing in Trauma Treatment
2017 – Post‑Graduate Certificate in Counselling Supervision
2016 – BACP Webcast: Children and Young People
2016 – Trauma and the Body: Somatisation and Dissociation
2015 – National Autistic Society Professional Conference
2014 – EMDR Parts 2 & 3
2014 – Mindfulness‑Based Practice
2013 – Gestalt Therapy with Personality Disorders
2013 – EMDR Part 1
2012 – Working with Suicidal Clients
2012 – Counselling and Asperger’s Syndrome
2011 – Counselling and the Autistic Spectrum
2011 – Attachment in Adult Life
2010 – Somatic Trauma Therapy
2009 – Anger, Rage and Relationship
2009 – Person‑Centred Couple Counselling
2008 – BACP Conference
2007 – Assessment for Psychotherapy
2007 – BACP Ethics and Complaints
2007 – Psychotherapy of Giving Gifts

Experience
My clinical experience includes working with adults of all ages in a variety of organisational settings, including a GP's surgery, employee counselling service, the voluntary sector, insurance companies and a primary care psychotherapy and counselling service provider for the NHS.

Issues I have worked with include depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, bereavement, childhood abuse, work-related stress, divorce, and personal development.

I have a particular interest in working with adults with a recent diagnosis of autism whether that be "formal" or self identified, and their families.

I have experience working with trainee counsellors and psychotherapists studying at diploma, Bachelors and Masters  degree level.