Training, Qualifications and Experience

General training & CPD specific training courses:

Diploma in Counselling

FdSc Counselling

BA (Hons) Counselling

Fundamentals of Working with Couples 

* working with the relationship dynamic

* patterns of intimacy/sexual relating/problems

Meeting your Partner's needs

* exploring how people get the needs me in relationships

Therapeutic aspects of working with sexual violence

Impact of sexual violence

Sexual trauma

Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

Working with childhood sexual abuse and complex trauma: The body keeps the score

Phase-Orientated Trauma Model 

Crossing the Line and Treatment Interventions: Working therapeutically with individuals convicted or accused of sexual offending

Experience:

Apart from working with adults, couples and young people with a range of issues, I also have more specific experience:

*   4.5 years working with young people aged between 11 and 25 presenting with a range of issues, including anxiety, depression, self harm, rape and sexual violence, suicide ideation, low self esteem, bullying and anger.

*   4 years working with adult survivors of child sex abuse, rape and sexual violence.