I have been working with children, young people and their families for over 20 years.

My Background

I trained in Psychodynamic Counselling for four years in Cambridge, and worked with clients there. Starting in the voluntary sector, I worked with referrals from Social Services and Youth Justice as a manager of a countywide group work youth project. This led me on to working therapeutically in children’s residential facilities.

I then moved to Sheffield where I qualified as a Social Worker and worked therapeutically in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and Youth Offending teams which gave me many happy years of experience. During this time, I also gained further training in:

• Webster Stratton Parenting coordinator
• Mindfulness
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Gestalt Therapy
• Emotional Freedom Technique
• Child – parent play
• A wide range of mental health specialities

Qualifications

I am registered with the Health and Care Profession Council, (HCPC: SW35853) and I am an individual member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP: 801975)

• 1993-97 Cert and Dip in Psychodynamic Counselling - University of Cambridge
• 2004 BA (Hons) - Sheffiled Hallam University
• 2004 Diploma in Social Work
• 2006 Webster Stratton Parenting Course Leader

Now after many happy years in the public sector I have moved into private practice to focus on delivering high quality and necessary therapeutic support to children and young people, and their families.