Ethical practice - Committed to offering an informed, skilled, knowledgeable and professional service; I am a registered member of British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapist (BACP) Reg.MBACP Membership No. 572325. The largest professional body representing Counselling and Psychotherapy in the UK.   I embrace and adhere to their code of ethics and principles for the Counselling Professions professionally and endeavour to   embrace these values into my personal living. 

 

MY CAREER - began in placement  with Cruse Bereavement Care, Doncaster, where I stayed for seven year gaining experience in many roles from Counsellor, Referral Secretary, joining Management team and securing the Branches first commissioned Assessment Officers post, creating and identifying 'best practice' for client assessment prioritizing individual needs. Training two other officers to deliver and work with the assessment tool.  Accumulating 16 years’ experience supporting people bereaved including sudden, traumatic and/or expected death; those struggling to come to terms with a loved one who completed suicide, those sat on the edge of despair contemplating ending their own life. Those who have lost loved ones through murder and family members shocked and impacted by their loved one who committed murder!  Along with the many and varied losses such endings bring.

 
Trained with Victim Support, Doncaster, supporting people impacted by the affects of crime, shock and trauma of finding self a victim of crime i.e. criminal damage, vandalism, harassment and bullying or witnessing crime and telephone support. 

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Serious crime trained connecting with and supporting people through the traumatic experience of finding self a victim of mugging, physical and sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse and  domestic violence.

 

Trained with  Surestart family centre  which aimed to offer every child the best start in life, supporting families in their own homes with child behavioural issues, early year care, practical and emotional issues, improving well-being.

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Supporting people impacted by alcohol misuse, users and family members impacted by someone else misuse within a local charity, gaining seven years’ experience supporting users, family and extended family members.

 

 

Qualifications -A professionally qualified practitioner  through The Counselling & Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body CPCAB in the modality of Humanistic Counselling.   Humanistic counselling  aims to focus on supporting  clients to develop a stronger sense of self and self worth, through self-awareness and development, responsibility and growth.  Compassionately supporting  clients to explore and recognise their innate individual gifts, strengths, creativity, problem solving and decision making skills along with developing personal autonomy i.e. self-direction and making personal choices in the here and now. 

 

Experience has taught me  and I understand ‘one size doesn’t fit all’ so I have further training and  draw from the modalities of Bereavement, Trauma and Mindfulness informed  Therapies. Transactional Analysis (TA) Solutions Focused (SF) Brief Interventions (BI), The Stages of Change model and Motivational Interviewing (MI) and  Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). 

 

The here and now cannot, not  be affect by all that has gone before so particular attention is paid to integrating the past into the present  curiously and creatively exploring, connecting and finding insight into how the past is influencing your here and now.  I am well versed with attachment theory of Bowlby and Ainsworth, and  psychoanalytic approach of the Jungian school of thought and utilise Carl Jung’s theory; successfully working with patterns through the process of self-awareness, transformation and striving for self-actualisation i.e.  the motivation to reach for and achieve one’s fullest potential; the process Maslow, Rogers and Jung agreed upon, the psychodynamic and Humanistic schools of thought integrated almost!

 

None of us grew in isolation in partnership I utilise  psychosocial theorist concepts such as  Bandura,  Erikson, Freud,  Piaget and Festinger because diversity,  difference and cultural background  play a part in our here and now functioning.  

 

 

Counselling changes lives, counselling is a commitment to our self.