​Training,  qualifications & experience

  • Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy, ICEEFT (2019), Core Skills (2021)
  • Imago Couples Therapy Introduction Certificate (2020)
  • Compassion Focused Therapy, Compassionate Mind Foundation (2020)
  • Couples Developmental Model, Couples Institute, Level 1 (2019-20)
  • General Certificate in Online Counselling & Psychotherapy 1 & 2,  Academy of Online Counselling & Psychotherapy (2019)
  • Diploma in Integrative Humanistic Counselling,  BACP Accredited (2010-12)
  • Cognitive Behavioural Skills - CBT with Heart, Hemingsfield Association (2015)
  • Additional training in working with Survivors of Domestic Violence, Creative Tools, CBT via Webcam, Neurobiology, Mindfulness, ACT, Attachment work, Solution-Focused Brief therapy, Positive Psychology
  • Parenting Practitioner, Levels 4 & 5  - Triple P International
  • Youth & Community PGDip - Brunel University  (2000)
  • Social Anthropology & Development MA - University of Sussex (1995) 

My experience
Alongside my work as a counsellor, my background is in community and family work.  I am an experienced parenting practitioner, working in the charity & education  sector with parents and families in Brighton & Hove for 13 years.   
​Having trained as a therapist I worked for a number of years with clients at the Rock Clinic in Brighton, leaving in April 2016.   ​Having been a city dweller all my life I am now living on a smallholding in Portugal which has been a steep learning curve for me.  I now practice online and can be found on Harley Therapy, Dr-Julian Mental Health App, Psychology Today  and worked as an Anxiety UK approved therapist for 4 years.