About Me

I have been working as a psychotherapist for several years since qualifying with an MSc in 2013. Previously, I worked as a registered general nurse, then moved on to work with families of children and young people with learning disabilities, a role I held for 13 years.

I trained in Sensorimotor psychotherapy in 2017 (level 1), a type of therapy that works with the body to heal traumatic memories.

Trauma can have an overwhelming effect on the body so that symptoms can show up somatically (in the body).

”Modernity has brought with it...a split between what we know with our whole being and what our thinking mind accepts as truth. Of these two kinds of knowledge, the latter, narrower kind most often wins out, to our loss”

Quote taken from the book ‘When the Body says No’ by Gabor Mate.

I trained at the Sherwood Institute in Nottingham for 4 years, where I gained a Master's degree (MSc) in Integrative Psychotherapy and counselling.

I attended the EMDR parts 1-3 training in 2017 and am a member of the EMDR Association of the UK and Ireland. I completed a 1-year IoPT (Identity-oriented psycho trauma) training course in 2016 with Vivian Broughton in London.

Qualifications: MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling, EMDR Therapist

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Trauma: Completed year 1,

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Part of the requisites of being accredited means that I need to undertake regular training (CPD) each year. Training I have recently attended includes:

EMDR / Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing. Level 3.
5 day training course held in Munich (2016) in the IoPT method (trauma work) run by Franz Rupert, author of Early Trauma

I continue to develop my knowledge and skills by undertaking regular continuing professional development through training and supervision which is required as part of my practice. I am an accredited member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and adhere to its strict code of ethics and professional practice, and to that provided by the Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute (SPTI).

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