About Me

My Career so far

'People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a little on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud color." I don't do that. I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch it with awe as it unfolds.' -  Carl Rogers

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Who am I?

I am an individual like you. I am different. I am neurodiverse and I have lived through my own experiences and I have been where you are. I have been through my own therapeutic journey, training and experience and I have learnt. 

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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 different backgrounds

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 These include

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  • 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.

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

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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

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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.  

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'The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust, to further self-exploration, and to the correction of false statements as trust deepens.' - Carl Rogers