Professional Qualifications & Background
Professional standards
As a registered member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (MBACP, Register no. 411895), I commit to meet or exceed the professional body's recommended quality standards covering training, supervision, continuing professional development and commitment to the BACP Ethical Framework.
Integrative relational / person-centred therapy
​I integrate many different ideas and approaches from psychotherapy onto a relational framework rooted in the theory of person-centred therapy. I particularly like to integrate approaches that reference the mind-brain-body connection.
Qualifications
Core Counselling & Psychotherapy Training
Leeds Beckett University
Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy (Level 7) (Distinction)
With placement (100+ hours) at Platform One, Huddersfield.
A BACP-accredited 'integrative' counselling and psychotherapy course teaching many different approaches around a 'relational' core framework.
Platform One was a charity in Huddersfield town centre, taking referrals from GPs and social prescribers.
Kirklees College
Counselling Level 2 and 3
Introductory courses to the theory and practice of counselling, particularly Person-Centred Therapy.
Further Psychotherapy Training
Brainspotting UK
Phase 1 Training
BrainFit Neurofeedback / NeurOptimal®
NeurOptimal® Basic Certification
The foundational principles of Brainspotting, enabling me to use it with most clients.
A course teaching the principles of non-linear dynamical neurofeedback and how to help clients to track progress. However, using the NeurOptimal® neurofeedback device does not require any specific qualifications as the computer responds in real time to the user's individual brain.
Previous qualifications and experience
City University
MSc Information Science
University of Oxford
MSc (Res) Biochemistry
I originally trained in Biology, then Biochemistry, where I specialised in developmental processes. My interest in life processes informs my approach as a counsellor. I later moved into Information Science, specialising in Health Information. I was passionate, and still am, about empowering patients / clients through better access to information.
Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine
Biology BSc (Hons)