Qualifications and Experience

Professional Qualifications

• NNEB (nursery nurse), 1984

• Person- Centred Counselling, foundational Degree, 2012

• Member of BACP & BACP Children, Young people and Families

• Extensive training shorter courses in CBT, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Gestalt, Safeguarding, Anxiety, Attachment, Neurodiversity, Gender Diversity, LGBTQ+, Depression, Bereavement, Working Creatively with Children with Disabilities, Autism, Poly Vagal Theory etc.

• DBS checked annually

I have experience working with circumstances including:

• Anxiety and stress

• Loss and bereavement

• Family changes and challenges

• Separated parents

• Children with family in prison

• Terminally ill siblings

• Young carers

• Friendships

• Relationships

• Neurodiversity

• Identity

• Gender & Sexuality (LGBTQ+)

• Self-esteem

• Depression

• Anger

• Suicidal thoughts

• Self-harm

• Spirituality