ACT With Compassion
ACTwithcompassion.com is a website that curates content related to compassion in psychotherapy, unfortunately many of the links on some of the other pages are broken but the audio recordings here […]
Experience with a multitude of issues in both private practice, agency settings and within the National Health Service. This has involved working with intensive short-term, long-term and solution focussed work.
Welcoming a change in lifestyle and enthusiastically embracing counselling and psychotherapy. Witnessing their power to enable positive change in people’s lives. This has enhanced both my life experience and fulfilled a desire for deeper personal meaning. Prior to my training I worked as a company director based in London for twenty-five years.
A member of the National Counselling Society
A member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Enhanced DBS Checked
Verified by Psychology Today
Accredited counsellor for the UK registered charity
Member of UK AEDP Community
Continued Professional Development
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.
Please see a selection of my latest CPD activities:
2022 Surviving Sexual Abuse and
Thriving in Adulthood – 6 CPD hrs
Essential Therapy Training
with Dana Barrows, Illinois, USA
Taught from the perspective of a therapist
and sexual abuse survivor. Recognising the
cognitive, emotional, and somatic symptoms
within the nervous system and specifically how
to treat each symptom with a unique integrated
approach, healing in both the neocortex and
subcortical parts of the brain.
2020-2021 Mindfulness Based Experiential Therapy – 372 CPD hrs
Level 6. Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body
MBET Centre, London Bridge SE1 (remote due to COVID19).
Advanced course in Mindfulness Based Experiential Therapy focusing on diversity, culture, ethics, research and the use of the self in psychotherapy.
2020 Expert Strategies for Working with Anxiety – 5 CPD hrs
National (US) Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine.
Expert treatment tools and interventions for Anxious clients. Content including Dr Pat Ogden, Dr Stephen Porges, Dr Peter Levine and Dr Rick Hanson.
2020 Treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder – 2 CPD hrs
Mind Body Breakthrough
Strategies for helping clients overcome OCD including Exposure and Response Prevention with Wale Oladipo
2020 AEDP Workshop; Increasing the Therapists Embodied Presence in Online Work – Online 3 CPD hrs
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy workshop with Sigal Bahat AEDP Supervisor Israel.
2020 Treating Intrusive Thoughts and the Inner Critical Voice – Online 2 CPD hrs
Mind Body Breakthrough
An anxiety recovery workshop with Wale Oladipo
2019 Trauma and the Body: Somatisation & Dissociation, 4 CPD hrs
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.
2019 Working with Shame – 4 CPD hrs
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.
2019 Working with Shame, 6 CPD hrs
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.
BACP CPD HUB Addiction Updates- Online 5 CPD Hours
- 2019 The Neuroscience of Addiction, Dr Stella Vlachou.
- Searching for a Secure Base? Attachment Perspectives on Addiction, Christine Askew
- Practical Counselling Strategies and Interventions in Addiction Work,
- Faisal Mahmood. Sugar – the New Baddie on the Block, Lou Lebentz
- What’s Wrong with Porn? The Rising Prevalence of Sex and Pornography Addiction, Paula Hall
2018 Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention – Online 8 Weeks
The Centre for Addiction Treatment Studies
2018 Treating Trauma Master Series, 5 CPD Hour
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.
2018 Working with Couples – London, 2 days
Endorsed by College of Sexual Relationship Therapists.
2018 Cognitive Analytical Therapy (CAT) Workshop – Brighton, 2 days
Brighton General Hospital, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation trust.
2018 Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Immersion – London, 4 days
Seminar with Dr Diana Fosha. Undoing Aloneness & the Transformation of Emotional Suffering.
2017 Congress of Attachment and Trauma – London, 3 days
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.
2017 Advanced Mindfulness Training – London, 5 days
With Hari Murday, MBET, Psychosynthesis Trust.
2016 Understanding the Many Faces of Anxiety – London, 4hrs
Seminar with Dr Rob Neborsky.
Resources
Atlas of Emotions
Created by Dr Paul Ekman and his daughter Dr Eve Ekman and imagined, commissioned and supported by the Dalai Lama.
