Training and Qualifications
I am a fully accredited, registered and insured Transpersonal Psychotherapist with 35 years experience.
I am a registered member of both the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and a senior accredited member of the National Council of Psychotherapists. I have thirty five years of experience of counselling, psychotherapy and hypnotherapy.
My initial training in addiction counselling, at Promis Recovery Centre in Kent, was followed by several years volunteering for a charitable counselling organisation in Reading.
The observation that clients move spontaneously into trance-like states during sessions prompted me to study at the Psychotherapy and Hypnosis Training Association in London, qualifying for membership of the National Council of Psychotherapists (now the National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists) and the National Council of Hypnotherapists and entry onto the Hypnotherapy Register. I was awarded senior clinician status with the NCH in 2002.
Meanwhile, an ever deepening interest in consciousness studies led me to the Centre for Transpersonal Psychology (CTP) where I took the Advanced Diploma in 2003 and was registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). I now maintain my accreditation as a Direct Member of UKCP in the Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy College.
Latterly, I spent two years teaching, training and running process groups for the Bridge Pastoral Foundation's Psychotherapy and Counselling Course at Douai Abbey. My current focus is on my private practice, working in person in Thatcham and also online internationally.
I am committed to ongoing professional development. I have recently completed a course on working with sex issues in psychotherapy with AASECT (the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists) and am currently involved in further study in the field of energy psychology. I am a member of ACEP (the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology).
