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Qualifications & Skills

MA PGCE PgDip

MNCPS (Acc.)

Qualifications

I try to ensure that I build on my qualifications to place me in the best position to support my clients.

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Professional Development

TRAUMA

I have to admit that I love doing courses. I am passionate about learning. It was an ongoing joke amongst my peers whilst I was training that I was never satisfied with doing just one course at a time. Below is a list of some of the more recent ones!

• NICABM Treating Trauma Master & Advanced Series • Using Compassion-Focused Therapy for Trauma • Compassionate Inquiry with Gabor Maté • Breathwork for Trauma • How to work with the Traumatised Brain • Working with Shame • Dealing with Distress - Working with Suicide & Self-Harm • Self Harm as Survival • Child Sexual Abuse - Hope for Healing • Cultural Responsiveness in Counselling & Psychotherapy • Working with Neurodivergent Clients Using the Autism Dialogue Approach • Alice in Wonderland Syndrome & Complex PTSD • Compassionate Inquiry with Gabor Maté • The Body Remembers - the interplay of regulation, self-care & vicarious trauma • Trauma-Informed Practice: Treating Complex PTSD • Exploring Trauma from a Person-Centred Perspective • Working with Relational Trauma: Dealing with Disorganised Attachment • Trauma, Dissociation & the Person-Centred Approach • Working with Dissociative Disorders in Clinical Practice • The Impact of Trauma at Different Developmental Stages • Relational Trauma, PCA & Neurodivergence • Suicide in Historically Marginalised Communities • EMDR & the PCA: Collaboration or Conflict? • Ultimate EMDR Toolkit - Level 1

TRAINING & EXPERIENCE

OUTDOORS

I have many years of working (and playing) outdoors. I have taken students to far flung countries and supported expeditions closer to home.  Ensuring I have the right training to work with clients therapeutically outdoors is important, Joining the 8 month Certificate programme in Contact-Oriented Psychotherapy in a Nature Setting through the Heart Wood charity has given me the space to reflect on my own relationship with Nature and how I can support clients therapeutically in the outdoors.

  • Two-day Outdoor First Aid Certificate

  • Expedition Leader Training - UK: Lake District & Snowdonia

  • Expedition Leader Training - Atlas Mountains, Morocco

  • Certificate in Contact-Oriented Psychotherapy in a Nature Setting - in progress through Heart Wood

  • Eco-Therapy 'Walk & Talk Training

  • MTA Hill and Moorland Leader Training - in progress

  • Member of the Institute for Outdoor Learning's Association for Outdoor Therapy

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