Training

I have attained a number of professional counselling qualifications and have subsequently attended and passed training courses for the areas that I have chosen to specialise in.

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• Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling

• Counselling Degree

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• Trauma

  • Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)

  • Healing from the Bottom Up: How to help clients access resource states with Peter Levine

  • Working therapeutically with survivors of sexual abuse

  • Phase orientated trauma model

  • Mastering the craft of treating trauma

  • The essentials of effective trauma treatment: How to go beyond technique

  • Treating trauma clients at the edge: How brain science can inform interventions

  • Cultural and historical traumas: Invisible barriers to healing and change

  • Couples therapy for treating trauma: The Gottman method approach

  • Overcoming trauma-related shame and self loathing

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• Anxiety and Depression

  • Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP)

  • Calming the Anxious Brain: How to use brain-based strategies to treat anxiety

  • Effective anxiety treatment with Margaret Wehrenberg

  • Managing worry and anxiety through mindfulness practices

  • Mastering the anxiety game: Teaching clients to welcome their fears

  • Treating anxiety in Children

  • Disrupting rumination: Changing the cognitions that underlie anxiety and depression

  • Menopause, memory and mood

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• Young people's services

  • Young people, self esteem, sex and sexuality

  • Image, shame and the teenage brain

  • Social media and mental health

  • Adolescent self harm: Working with the whole family

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