QUALIFICATIONS

• 2000  BSc (Hons) Psychology, Open University
  
• 2001 Addiction Training programme for Volunteers, OCN
  
• 2002 Postgraduate  Diploma in Counselling, University of Brighton
  
• 2003 Certificate in Group work skills, ABC
  
• 2003  Further education teaching certificate, City & Guilds - stage 1
  
• 2004  Research Methods for the Social Sciences Module - University of Brighton
  
• 2004  Further education teaching certificate, City & Guilds - stage 2
  
• 2005  PGCE Post Compulsory Education - University of Brighton
  
• 2005  BACP Accreditation - Counsellor/Psychotherapist
  
• 2005  UKRC Registered Independent Counsellor
  
• 2005 Professional Accreditation of Associate Teachers in
• 2006  MA Counselling Studies - University of Brighton
  
• 2007 Certificate in Supervision - Psychology Matters
  
• 2008  NAM19 - Cognitive Behavioural Interventions, University of Brighton
  
• 2009  Part 1 Professional Doctorate in Counselling and Psychotherapy (equivalent to MPhil)

COUNSELLING TRAINING

• 1998 -1999 Counselling training (Centra Levels 1 and 2)
  
• 2000  Cruse (bereavement counselling)
  
• 2000  Survivors Network (women sexually abused as children)
  
• 2001  Addaction (substance misuse, brief solution focused therapy & Motivational Interviewing)   
  
• 2002  Cruse (bereavement counselling with children)
  
• 2002  Child Protection training
  
• 2002  IPCL (Institute for Person-Centred Learning) - Workshop - “Person-centred approach to work with children and young people       
  
• 2002 Supervision - Cruse
  
• 2007  Critical Incident Stress debriefing (post incident trauma support) - Sussex Police
  
• 2007  Cognitive Behaviour Therapy - Skills for life, work & wellbeing

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Member of BPS (British Psychological Society) - 089876
  
• Member of BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy) - 534043
  
• Member of BAPCA (British Association of Person Centred Approach)
  
• Associate Member of Higher Education Academy
  
• Member BABCP (British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies) 070606
  
• Member of Institute for Learning - 91075974

COUNSELLING EXPERIENCE

• 2000  Cruse bereavement care (adults)
  
• 2000  Addaction (drug/alcohol misuse)
  
• 2000 Survivors Network (help-line for women sexually abused as children)
  
• 2001  St Thomas’ (drug/alcohol misuse)
  
• 2001  First Steps (abused women)
  
• 2002  Cruse bereavement care (children)
  
• 2002  Private counselling practice - ongoing
  
• 2002 Forget-me-not - set up of children’s group bereavement counselling
  
• 2003  St Peter & St James Hospice, North Chailey - Bereavement support worker
  
• 2006  Mankind UK - Male abuse issues
  
• 2006  Sussex Police - Contract for provision of counselling services to employees- ongoing
  
• 2007  Various Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) ongoing

SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE

• 2003/4 Cruse Bereavement Care, Brighton (Group supervision)
  
• 2004/5 Mankind UK (Group and Individual supervision)
  
• 2003 Private practice (Individual supervision) - ongoing
  
• 2007/8 Metropolitan Police Service
  
• 2009 West Sussex County Council - (Social Services) ongoing

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• 2004 Space Counselling Agency - Needs analysis
  
• 2006 MA Counselling Studies - “Child Bereavement Counselling - Perspectives on Client Confidentiality - University of Brighton
  
• 2006 St Peter & St James Hospice - Needs Analysis
  
• 2007 Professional Doctorate in Counselling - University of Brighton - due to complete 2010

TEACHING/TRAINING EXPERIENCE

• 2003 Intermediate counselling - City College, Hove
  
• 2003  Sussex Downs College,  -  Intermediate certificate in counselling (ongoing)
  
• 2003/2005 Counselling workshops - Brighton & Hove Counselling Agencies
  
• 2003/2004 Introduction to Bereavement counselling - Cruse, Brighton
  
• 2004  City College, Hove - Introduction & Intermediate certificates in counselling (ongoing)
  
• 2005/2008  University of Chichester, Senior Lecturer BA Humanistic Counselling
  
• 2006  NCFE Assessor and Internal Moderator Training Certificate
  
• 2007  Red Cross - Psychosocial support worker - Rapid deployment team/international Emergencies (ongoing)
  
• 2007  Sussex Police - Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
  
• 2009 Introduction to CBT - ongoing
  
• 2009  Private tuition in counselling/psychotherapy (Post-graduate/diploma)

I am currently employed, part-time, by City College, Brighton and Hove as the Counselling Courses Curriculum Co-ordinator. My areas of involvement include interviewing students, co-ordinating with accreditation bodies regarding course validations and updating and evaluating course criteria and assessment. This role involves developing new courses for the future and mentoring/supporting tutors.

As a trainer for various counselling organisations, I have run workshops on Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fragile Process, Bereavement Counselling, Stress management, Supervision, Introduction to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Integrating CBT and the Person-Centred Approach.

CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS DEBRIEFING
Trained with Sussex Police in 2006 and currently work with EAPs on an ad hoc national basis.

RAPID RESPONSE PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT
I volunteer with the British Red Cross (in conjunction with the Foreign and Commonwealth office) for international emergency situations for UK Nationals.

PUBLICATIONS/MEDIA

• Currently writing  a book due to be published in 2010 for trainee counsellors working from the Person-Centred approach
• DVD - London: Parradigm Media Associates - Personal demonstration of working with a client within the classical Person-Centred Approach with theoretical commentary
• Reverb Radio - occasional guest appearance
• ITV - Psychotherapist for ‘guest’ on Jeremy Kyle show

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

• 2007- poster presentation - year 1 - University of Brighton Professional Doctorate in Counselling and Psychotherapy
  
• 2008 - presentation of doctoral research to date - year 2 - University of Brighton Professional Doctorate in counselling and psychotherapy
  
• 2009 -Southern Universities Alliance for Doctoral Education ( SUADE) - University of Brighton - “Fumblings in the dark - reflections on a cohort’s journey”
  
• 2009 - The lived experience and perceptions of counsellors and psychotherapists with regard to the current professional changes - year 3 University of Brighton Professional Doctorate in counselling and psychotherapy

CURRENT STUDIES

• Professional Doctorate in Counselling and Psychotherapy (University of Brighton)
  2006 - 2010

CPD

• 2006 - 2008  Coordinating Group member of British Association of the Person-centred Approach (BAPCA)
  
• 2009 Participant in national group responding to Government’s proposed Statutory regulation for psychological therapies and Improved Access to psychological therapies (IAPT)
• 2009  Participant in developing standards for ‘Skills for Health’ for Person-Centred Counsellors and psychotherapists

REFERENCES

• Clinical Supervisor:
  Professor Ernesto Spinelli, 69 Oglander Road, London. SE15 4DD
  02074 877556
• Professional Doctorate supervisor:
  Dr Phil Mandy, Mayfield House, University of Brighton, Village Way, Falmer, Brighton