My training to becoming a practicing counsellor began over fifteen years ago.
My experience has been built on working with clients of differing ages, ethnicities, genders, sexualities and backgrounds, who have sought counselling for a range of problems and issues. I have worked in various counselling agencies and organisations and in 2012 I set up my own private practice.
In private practice I work one-to-one with adults. I offer Telephone Counselling or Video Calls.
In addition to a Postgraduate Certificate in Therapeutic Counselling Skills; I hold two Postgraduate Diplomas, the first in Therapeutic Counselling (Integrative Pathway) and the second in Counselling Children and Young People.
My first postgraduate diploma qualified me to call myself a Relational Integrative Counsellor. This means that I am qualified, trained and experienced in applying and integrating compatible elements, techniques and theoretical understanding into my work with all my clients from:
I continued in my professional development and progressed onto the Postgraduate Diploma Counselling Children and Young People course, which complements my initial training, drawing from:
I gained valuable experience in using a wide range of creative tools. When befitting, these tools are incorporated in my work with adults.
My experience has been built on working with clients of differing ages, ethnicities, genders, sexualities and backgrounds, who have sought counselling for a range of problems and issues. I have worked in various counselling agencies and organisations and in 2012 I set up my own private practice.
In private practice I work one-to-one with adults. I offer Telephone Counselling or Video Calls.
In addition to a Postgraduate Certificate in Therapeutic Counselling Skills; I hold two Postgraduate Diplomas, the first in Therapeutic Counselling (Integrative Pathway) and the second in Counselling Children and Young People.
My first postgraduate diploma qualified me to call myself a Relational Integrative Counsellor. This means that I am qualified, trained and experienced in applying and integrating compatible elements, techniques and theoretical understanding into my work with all my clients from:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Humanism (including Person-Centred Counselling and Existential Perspective)
- Relational Psychodynamic Approach
I continued in my professional development and progressed onto the Postgraduate Diploma Counselling Children and Young People course, which complements my initial training, drawing from:
- The Proactive Model
I gained valuable experience in using a wide range of creative tools. When befitting, these tools are incorporated in my work with adults.
Related Work Experience
Presently I work within:
- My own practice, which I began in 2012.
- A non-profit organisation, offering counselling to individuals affected by sexual trauma.
- A service as a specially trained Perinatal Counsellor, working one-to-one with expectant or new parents experiencing anxiety, depression, low self-esteem or any other negative feelings before or after having their baby/babies.
- A Secondary School as a School Based Counsellor, working with 11 to 18-year-olds.
- The counselling service within a housing association, working predominantly with young mothers who, for a range of reasons, accessed the service for support.
- A mental health and wellbeing service, where I offered counselling and support to anyone living with, recovering from and/or affected by depression.
- A project that predominantly offered support and counselling to any adults living with or affected by alcohol problems. I also worked with clients who accessed counselling through the project for other substance abuse issues.
My Qualifications
- Postgraduate Diploma Counselling Children and Young People
- Postgraduate Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling: Integrative Pathway (BACP Accredited Course)
- Postgraduate Certificate in Counselling Skills (BACP Accredited Course)
- BSc (Hons) Psychology
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Professional Membership
As a member of the BACP, I am required to undertake continuous professional development (CPD) and partake in regular supervision. CPD and supervision are resources which enhance and maintain my skills and knowledge to help develop and focus my practice and to ensure that I am working ethically, and to the best of my abilities, with my clients.
PVG Scheme MembershipI am a PVG Scheme member
(Scheme record disclosure issued under section 52 of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007) |
Professional Indemnity InsuranceI carry full professional indemnity insurance.
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