Qualifications & Training

Professional Registrations

  • BACP Accredited Counsellor & Psychotherapist.

  • Fully insured: Towergate

Publications & Awards

  • Exploring self-disclosure between the survivor-therapist and survivor-clients: An autoethnography of the value of ‘sisterhood’ between female survivors of sexual violence https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/capr.12573

  • BACP New Researcher Award 2023

  • Dean’s Prize Award 2021: Leeds Beckett University


Qualifications

  • MA Psychotherapy: Leeds Beckett University

  • Post Graduate Diploma Counselling & Psychotherapy: Leeds Beckett University

  • Post Graduate Certificate Interpersonal & Counselling Skills: Leeds Beckett University

  • Certificate in Relational Couples Therapy: Time to Talk | Dr. Brian Charlesworth

Additional Training & CPD

  • Jungian and Post Jungian Clinical Concepts - Archetypes and Individuation: Centre of Applied Jungian Studies

  • Expert Strategies for Treating Narcissism: National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine

  • Personality Styles in Psychotherapy with Dr. Jonathan Shedler

  • Live Case Supervision Masterclass with Dr. Jonathan Shedler

  • Personality Styles in Psychotherapy: A Roadmap for Deep and Lasting Change: Dr. Jonathan Shedler

  • The Medicalisation of Distress: Diagnosis, Formulation, and Relational Psychotherapy: Dr Nancy McWilliams, James Barnes, James Davies, & Lucy Johnstone Confer

  • Working with Women Sex Workers: Basis Training & Education [Basis Yorkshire]

  • Fragile Selves: The Role Of Echo or the 'Thin-Skinned' Narcissist in the Problematic Dynamics that Couples Encounter: Susanna Abse & Jenny Riddell: Confer

  • Fragile Selves: Transforming Isolating Perceptions and Affects in Narcissistic Patients whose Self-Sufficiency Developed as a Protection from Malignant Parenting: Neville Symington: Confer

  • Fragile Selves: Borderline Personality Disorder a disordered relationship with self, other and the body, arising from neurobiological or relational deficits and psychodynamic defences: A Relational Affective Hypothesis: Dr Susan Mizen: Confer

  • Fragile Selves: The link between early attachment style and personality disorder presentations: Dr. Diana Diamond: Confer

  • Fragile Selves: Working with Narcissistic Vulnerability, Grandiosity, Shame, and Alienation: Dr Phil Mollon: Confer

  • Culture Wars? Intersectionality, Identities and Psychotherapy: Confer

  • Working with Depression: An Integrative and Creative Approach with Dr Barbara Dowds: Confer

  • A Biopsychosocial View of Attention Deficit Disorder and other Childhood Developmental Disorders: Dr Gabor Maté: Confer

  • Queering Therapy Spaces and Working with Gender Diverse Clients: BACP

  • The Trauma Series Part IV: Working Through Pandemic Shock with Dr Janina Fisher, Dr Ruth Lanius & Dr Pat Ogden: Confer

  • The Trauma Series Part III: Overcoming Dissociation with Dr Janina Fisher: Confer

  • The Trauma Series Part II: Implicit Predictions, Resilience, and Sociocultural Considerations with Dr Pat Ogden: Confer

  • The Trauma Series Part I: Resilience, Dissociation, and the Body Restoring Regulation, Balance, and a Sense of Self After Trauma: Confer

  • Practice beyond the pandemic - considering a blended approach to delivering therapy: BACP

  • ADHD in the Therapy Room: Aspire Autism Consultancy

  • Separation Sickness in a Post-Industrial World: Healing the Intergenerational Disconnection from Ourselves and the Land: Confer

  • A Matter of Death and Life: Irvin Yalom

  • Uncertainty: An Existential Perspective: Ernesto Spinelli

  • The Hungry Ghost: A Biopsychosocial Perspective on Addiction, from Heroin to Workaholism: Dr Gabor Maté

  • What Every Psychological Therapist should know about working with psychiatric drugs: BACP

  • Me, You and Us: A New Model for Understanding Transference in Couples Counselling workshop with Rosalind Sharples and Nathan Gould

  • Growing Through Discomfort: A mental health professional’s guide to helping clients cope during Covid-19: Esther Perel

  • A Reflective Guide to Gender Identity Counselling: Madison-Amy Webb

  • Goals in Therapy: Actualising Our Deepest Directions: Dr Mick Cooper

  • Creative Therapeutic Interventions when working with Couples Online: Dr Kalanit Ben-Ari

  • Young People & Gender Identity: Madison-Amy Webb

  • Gender & Transgender Identity: Madison-Amy Webb

  • A Study in Trauma and Somatic Memory: Dr Janina Fisher 

  • Counselling Online: A Coronavirus Primer: BACP & OU

  • COVID-19 Telehealth Course: Moving Your Practice Online: Online Therapy Institute

  • Existential Contributions to Counselling and Psychotherapy: Dr Mick Cooper

  • Relational Depth in Counselling & Psychotherapy: Dr Mick Cooper

  • Using Neuroscience in your Practice: OnlineEvents

  • Our Relationship with Things & Stuff: OnlineEvents

  • A Pluralistic Approach to Therapy: Dr Mick Cooper

  • A Polyvagal Perspective on the Pandemic: OnlineEvents

  • Existential Courage: Emmy van Deurzen

  • Working with Shame: Carolyn Spring

  • Therapy & Suicide: Time to Talk

  • Working with Risk: The Hub CPD

  • Practical Counselling: The Hub CPD

  • Societal Rape Myths & Traumatic Reactions: BACP

  • Transactional Analysis 101: UKATA

  • Mental Health in the Workplace: BACP

  • Counselling Clients on the Autistic Spectrum: Aspire Autism Training

  • Workshop: Eating Disorders: Battle Scars

  • Workshop: Self Harm: Battle Scars

  • Relational Therapy: Time to Talk