Training & Qualifications

• Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA) (EATA).
• MSc. in Psychotherapy  (Middlesex University).
• Clinical Diploma in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy (Metanoia Institute).
• Diploma in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapeutic Counselling (Metanoia Institute).
• Extensive specialist training in C-PTSD and DID.
• Diploma in Life Coaching (New Skills Academy).
• Clinical Supervision Certificate/Diploma, viewed through an Intersectional lens (due for completion Nov 2021). (TA East London Institute).

Clinical Experience

• Six years of experience in private practice.
• Two additional years experience as an Associate Counsellor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, counselling undergraduate music and dance students.
• Two years of specialist mentor experience for undergraduate university music students with mental health issues.
• Supervision of other counsellors and psychotherapists.

Complex Mental Health Experience

I have long-term experience working with client’s who have been diagnosed with personality disorders, but my training from a trauma-informed perspective makes me believe that rather than disorders, a person’s behaviours that might receive a diagnosis can actually be thought of as trauma responses. I have a particular interest in working with clients who have been diagnosed with the following:

• Dissociative identity disorder (DID)
• Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD).

Domestic, Emotional, and Narcissistic Abuse

I have worked with many clients who have been subjected to various forms of abuse by their partners, both whilst they are still in the abusive relationship and after it has ended. Abuse within a relationship can be difficult to talk about and sometimes difficult to pinpoint for the victim. With validation and empowerment, I aim to help you make sense of your experience. I will help you consider your options to place healthier boundaries within your relationship or to be alongside you if you decide you would like to leave.

Trusteeship

I am the counselling and supervising trustee for Woman’s Trust. Woman’s Trust is the charity that helps women in London overcome the mental and emotional harm caused by domestic abuse by providing women-only, client-led, trauma-informed counselling and support services.

Memberships

To demonstrate my competence I am a member of several organisations, each of which requires the fulfillment of particular standards of training and knowledge by its associates.

• Full clinical member of the UK Council of Psychotherapy (UKCP)
• Registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
• Member of Metanoia Institute.

As a reflection of my work with abuse survivors, I have been accepted as a member of:

• Ritual Abuse Information Network and Support (RAINS)
• European Society for Trauma and Dissociation (ESTD)
• Anti Victim Blaming, Trauma-Informed Network (AVBTI)

Ethical Principles

I am deeply committed to, practice and abide by the principles and ethics of EATA.