I have experience working with a multitude of issues in both private practice, agency settings and within the National Health Service. I have experience of intensive long-term and short-term, solution focussed work.
I have undergone a complete change of lifestyle, embracing a second career in therapeutic counselling. Prior to my training I worked as a company Director based in London for many years. My enthusiasm for counselling and psychotherapy and their power to enable positive change in people’s lives has been enhanced by both my personal experiences and a desire for deeper personal meaning.
I have an on-going personal commitment to continued professional development as part of my own core beliefs as well as a requirement of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy’s Ethical Framework. I believe in working to professional standards and keeping myself informed about the latest developments in the field.
My latest CPD activities are as follows:
Carolyn Spring
Both a professional and personal perspective on somatisation and dissociation, as a courageous and compassionate survivor herself of organised abuse and incest, this course looks at the ways in which trauma affects our mind and body.
National (US) Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine.
A course to complement “Treating Trauma” on the neurobiology of shame and how to heal from it, with content from Dr Marsha Linehan, Dr Kelly McGonical, Dr Stan Tatkin, Dr Sue Johnson, Dr Ruth Lanius & Dr Shelly Harrell.
Carolyn Spring, Amnesty International, London
Looking at what goes on in both the body and the brain during our evolved shame responses. The importance of the right brain in therapy for shame, balanced with left brain approaches. Aimed at helping those with a diagnosis of a mental health response to trauma such as Borderline Personality Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or Dissociative Identity Disorder.
The Centre for Addiction Treatment Studies
National (US) Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine.
An in-depth look into the expert treatment tools and interventions that can be applied to work with traumatised clients. Content including Dr Bessel van der Kolk, Dr Pat Ogden, Dr Dan Siegel, Dr Stephen Porges, Dr Allan Schore & Dr Peter Levine.
Endorsed by College of Sexual Relationship Therapists.
Brighton General Hospital, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation trust.
Seminar with Dr Diana Fosha. Undoing Aloneness & the Transformation of Emotional Suffering.
The resilience of mind & body, with the leading academics in the field of interpersonal neurobiology: Dr Louis Cozolino, Dr Rachel Yehuda, Dr Bessel Van Der Kolk, Dr Diana Fosha, Dr Antonio Damasio, Dr Stephen Porges, Dr Judith Herman, Dr Vittorio Gallese, Dr Pat Ogden, Dr Robin Shapiro & Dr Daniel Siegel.
With Hari Murday, MBET, Psychosynthesis Trust.
Seminar with Dr Rob Neborsky.
Dr Maté has written a non-judgemental and wonderfully compassionate book focusing on the lives of drug addicted human beings who have been his patients. We gain insight into their traumatic early years, often bound up in shame and abuse.
Founded in 2006 by a small UK based group suffering with Body Dysmorphic Disorder and later continued by trustees when the original founders were unable to continue.
Established in 1986 by a group of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder sufferers in North America who came together through the first treatment trials for OCD.
