Appropriate training and qualifications are really important to me. In an industry such as counselling which is essentially unregulated, I have always been committed to professional membership, training, completing qualifications and gaining good quality work experience to improve the services I am able to offer my clients. I’m a great believer in learning things from the very basics to give myself a good foundation for higher levels of learning: I never assume to think I know something, so I will take as long as necessary to learn anything new, and continue to learn and develop over time.

Usui Reiki:

• Animal Reiki Level 1 (2024)
• Usui Reiki Level 2 (Practitioner level) (2024)
• Usui Reiki Level 1 (2023)

Art and creative therapies:

• Holistic Integrative Creative Arts Therapies practitioner training (Current – 2024-2025)
• Advanced creativity coaching training (Eric Maisel Training, 2021)
• Introduction to creativity coaching (Eric Maisel Training, 2021)
• Working creatively with aspects of self (Deep release, 2021)
• Integrating artwork in counselling practice (BACP, 2021)
• Writing in bereavement (Cruse bereavement care, 2012)
• Working creatively with clients (Cruse bereavement care, 2011)
• A level – Art and Design (2009)

Counselling, Supervision and Coaching:

• IAFPD Certificate in Coaching (2021)
• Certificate in Clinical Supervision (2020)
• (Level 7) Postgraduate Diploma in Mental Health Science (2017 – 2018)
• BACP Certificate of Proficiency (Jan 2015)
• Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (2012 – 2014)
• (Level 6) BSc (Hons) Counselling Psychology (2009 – 2012)
• Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies (2012)
• Counselling Children and Adolescents Level 4 (2012)
• Level 2 Certificate in Awareness in Bereavement Care (2011)
• Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills (2011)
• Level 2 Award in Introduction to Counselling Skills (2010)

I spent a number of years training to qualify as a counsellor and I continue to engage with professional development – I have a commitment to ongoing training every year as a Registered Member of The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

Some further areas of study/professional development

• Somatic experiencing
• Inner child work/’wounded parts’
• The cognitive-behavioural approach to working with OCD
• The cognitive-behavioural approach to working with health anxiety
• Psychological First Aid training
• Mental Health First Aid (trained 2016)
• Arts in health
• Relational depth when working online
• Counselling online
• Counselling by telephone
• Working with a suicidal client
• Loneliness and its effects
• Domestic violence awareness
• The Freedom Programme for Professionals
• Sudden and traumatic death
• Supported conversation (working with aphasia)
• Understanding stroke – physical, psychological and emotional impact
• A child’s grief