My Training

Historically I worked at a crisis service in Leeds called Dial House (part of Leeds-Survivor-Led Crisis Service, LSLCS) for about fifteen years. This included a time as the service manager (2017-2020) and setting up the OASIS crisis house (2020-2022).

I was originally trained in the Person-Centred Approach. My postgraduate counselling training was in Humanistic counselling: this is more of an umbrella category of approaches, which includes Person-Centred counselling as well as other therapeutic approaches. 

I draw from Gendlin (Focusing), Prouty (pre-therapy) and emotion focused techniques.

My Training

Postgraduate diploma (masters level) in Humanistic Counselling from York St. John University. I have been seeing people for counselling since 2025.

Level 3 certificate in Counselling Skills (2023)

Level 5 certificate in Mental Health Studies (Open University, 2012)

Masters degree (MSc) in Psychology (University of Bradford, 2010).

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Short courses and events I have attended

Working with feelings of abandonment: NICABM (2022)

Working with feelings of shame: Carolyn Spring, (2021)

The evolving therapeutic relationship from the perspectives of complexly dissociative clients: Melanie Goodwin & Kathryn Livingston (First Person Plural): Module 3 from ETSD series “Working therapeutically with complex traumatic dissociation” (2015)

Complex Trauma, structural dissociation and the body: Liz Hall / British Psychological Society (2014)

Understanding Childhood Sexual Abuse (Nottingham, weekend conference): The Hearing Voices Network (2011)

Working with Voices Hearers: Jacqui Dillon (2011)