About Me / My Career so far

Who am I?

I am an individual like you. I am different. I am neurodiverse and I have lived through my own experiences. But I am aware, I am centered, I have learnt.

My career

Parallel to my counselling roles, I have chosen to have a diverse career working in different environments, to enable me to support adults, young people and families from diverse backgrounds

These include

Children aged 6-18 who needed emergency accommodation
Individuals aged 8-25 with significant learning and physical challenges
Looked after Children aged between 5-21
Adults with a diagnosis or traits of Borderline Personality Disorder/EUPD
Young people aged 13-18 from psychiatric hospitals who needed specialist support to integrate back into society
Young women and Adults aged 14+ who were detained in psychiatric hospitals
Secondary school children (11-16) in a mainstream school. SEND requirements and emotional and behavioural needs
Adult have suffered childhood sexual abuse and exploitation
Children aged 8-18 who had suffered sexual abuse
Males aged 11-21 who exhibit sexually harmful behaviours.
Children aged 11-18 who had experienced, and were experiencing, being sexually exploited.
Schedule one offenders aged 13+

Through my career I have progressed to management, have gained qualification in every different sector, and have an extensive portfolio of specialist training.

My enhanced DBS and safeguarding training requirements have been continuously updated throughout my career and are both not due to expire until 2022.

My specialities (but not exclusively), are:

Neurodiversity. Autism. Asperger's. ADHD.

Suicidal ideation and Self-injury

Eating disorders

Gender identity and sexuality

Abuse. Including historical.

Confidence and self-esteem

Within our first telephone contact, we will explore what you would like to gain from Counselling, and explore whether we both feel we are a good fit for each other.