About me
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Counselling Experience
I started seeing clients in 2014 whilst carrying out my counselling placement with a Plymouth-based Community Interest Company. I worked on a number of funded projects, providing counselling for: those who had experienced domestic abuse; carers and heart and stroke patients. Once I had qualified in 2015, I provided counselling within a Plymouth secondary school for girls aged 11-18 years.
From 2016 – 2021, I was Project Lead for the Victims of Crime counselling service at a Plymouth-based organisation offering support for young people between the ages of 13 and 25. I continue to co-facilitate a Domestic Abuse Therapy Group for this organisation.
I have been working in private practice since 2015 and am now at Lifton Community Centre on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. I do zoom or phone sessions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
In the last few years, I have worked increasingly with people with ADHD and autism.
Qualifications
•BSc Psychology (1st Class Honours)
•Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Counselling - Dartmoor Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre
•Diploma in Supervision - Dartmoor Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre
•ADHD Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP) Certification Course: Strength-based Interventions to Thrive with ADHD from Childhood to Adulthood 2023
Professional Development
Person Centred Couples Counselling (2 days training)
Domestic Abuse Training – pairs. (2 days training)
Domestic Abuse Awareness training
Understanding Child Protection with Plymouth Safeguarding Children Board
Exploring Suicide Risk
Understanding Emotional Trauma
Developing cultural competence for working with LGBT Clients
Lost in Transition Conference (Intercom Trust) – exploring the needs of gender-conflicted children and young people, and their families/schools
Working with Shame
Anger, Rage and Relationship
KUF Training (3 days training on how to work more effectively with clients diagnosed with a personality disorder)
Autism Awareness Training
Ongoing member of a Gestalt Personal Development Group
Eating Disorder Conference
Trauma Informed Approaches Training Parts 2&3
Parent & Child Counselling
ADHD Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP) Certification Course: Strength-based Interventions to Thrive with ADHD from Childhood to Adulthood (Online Course)
2-Day Intensive Workshop: Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling Course, Counselling Tutor
