Experience
I have worked with several Organisations providing Counselling on both short and long-term contracts including charities and EAPs (Employee Assistance Programmes). I work Online with clients both nationally and internationally and have previously worked with an Online International Mental Health Service.
I am a Qualified Supervisor offering Online Supervision to trainee and Qualified Counsellors and offer both individual and relationship therapy including Poly relationships with sessions available to Quads and Triads as well as Couples.
I offer Group supervision within Counselling organisations and also offer Online sessions as part of the counselling provision for school students at a UK secondary school. I have worked with Youth Organisations and within Secondary schools and currently Supervise CYP counsellors working within a Youth organisation.
I have a range of experience in supporting clients from many different cultural backgrounds and Gender and Sexual identities, always striving to understand their unique intersectionality. I am experienced in working with clients engaged in Sex Work and have completed NUM training. I am also trained in working with clients around issues involved with Chemsex.
I am also experienced in working with people with Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) or PME (Premenstrual Exacerbation) and supporting clients living with Chronic illnesses.
Professional Memberships & Accreditations
I am a Qualified Therapist and Supervisor and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), a member of the British Association for the Person Centred Approach (BAPCA), a member of the Black, African And Asian Therapy Network (BAATN) and a member of BICA (British Infertility Counselling Association). I am also a member of Pink Therapy (GSRD) and National Ugly Mugs (Sex Worker rights and support charity).
I am also accredited by The Foundation for Infant Loss Training to offer Counselling to those affected by the bereavement of a child through perinatal, neonatal or infant death.
Press
Occasionally I am asked by Organisations or publications to write about various topics related to Mental health and wellbeing. If you would like to discuss an interview or commission please contact me.
Qualifications
Post Graduate Certificate in Supervision
Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling
Certificate in Counselling skills
BACP Certificate of Proficiency
Further Training
Transcultural Supervision
British Infertility Counselling Association Foundation course
Infant Loss
Understanding Autism
Self Harm
Working with PTSD
National Ugly Mugs training (Ending Violence Against Sex Workers)
Positive Psychology
Chemsex
Vicarious Trauma
The challenge of Racism in Private Practice
Gender Identity
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Online & Telephone counselling
Working will Vulnerable Adults
Working with Suicide & Risk
Attachment theory
LGBTQ+ Awareness
Working in Private Practice
Sex, Sexuality & Young People
Child Protection & Safeguarding
Data Protection
Working with Diversity in Private Practice
Trans Awareness
Supporting Young people with OCD
Working with clients with special needs
Solution Focused Therapy
Body Dysmorphia
Chronic illness and bereavement
Working with Sex Workers
Working with Couples online
Partnering Trans-identified and Trans-historied People
Understanding and Working with Obesity
Cybertrauma
Couples Counselling
Safeguarding Adults
Prevent Training
Mental Capacity Act & Deprivation of Liberty
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I have worked with clients facing a variety of challenges including
A-D
Abandonment
Abortion
Academic Pressure
Addiction
ADHD
Adult Children at home
Alopecia
Anger
Anxiety
Attachment issues
Attempted suicide
Being a carer
Bereavement
Bereavement by suicide
Bereavement of a child
Bereavement during childhood
Body Image
Bullying
Burnout
Career decisions
Caring for Grandchildren
Catfishing
Child abuse
Childhood Trauma
Children of Addicted individuals
Childlessness
Chronic illness
Confidence
Coming Out
Coping with physical illness
Counselling Students
Cultural Identity
Cultural issues
Cyber Bullying
Cybertrauma
Death & Bereavement
Depression
Divorce
Domestic violence
E-I
Eating Disorders
Emotional Abuse
Emotional Eating
Empty nest syndrome
Exams
Family Breakdown
Family Conflicts
Family illness
Family relationships
Fatherhood
Fear
Feeling Isolated
Fertility treatment
Fibromyalgia
Fibroids
Financial pressures
Friendships
Gaslighting
Gender identity
Home schooling
Homophobia
Infertility
Infidelity
Insomnia
Intersectionality
Isolation
IVF
J-R
Learning Difficulties
Leaving Home
LGBTQ+ issues
Living in Care
Loneliness
Marriage problems
Medical Trauma
Menstrual problems (physical & emotional)
Miscarriage
Motherhood
Nightmares
OCD
Paranoia
Parental Divorce
Performance Artists
Phobias
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
Physical abuse
Racism
Relationship Breakdown
Relationships
Religion & Spirituality
S-Z
School issues
School Refusal
Self Esteem
Self Harm
Self image
Seperated from family
Sex
Sex Work
Sexual abuse
Sexual Assault
Sexual identity
Sexuality
Sibling rivalry
Sickle cell
Stress
Suicidal feelings
Suicidal ideation
Terminally ill family member
Trans issues
Trauma
Unable to breastfeed
Unemployment
University
Victims of Crime
Wedding stress
Weight gain
Work problems
Work related trauma
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