Qualifications & Further Training

Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (register number: 383103)

Diploma in Child Counselling, Institute for Art in Therapy and Education, London (2017-2020) Distinction

Level 2 and 3 Awards in Counselling Skills for Working with Children, Place2Be, London (2016, 2017)

CELTA (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) University of Cambridge affiliated, Spain (2012)

BSc (Hons) 2.1 International Business with Spanish, University of Warwick (2008-2012)

CPD includes:

Safeguarding Level 3, Virtual College

Child Sexual Exploitation, CPD Online College

Suicide Prevention, Papyrus

Extending and Enhancing Good Autism Practice in schools, AET tier 2 extended, Linwood School

Addressing self-harm in schools, ACAMH

Sensory regulation and the regulatory capacity of being with pets and nature, CCMH

Mindfulness in practice, CCMH

Positive ways of working with challenging teenagers, CCMH

Exploring Psychiatric Diagnoses and mythologies, CCMH

Arts in Psychotherapy, CCMH

Emotion in Therapeutic Counselling and Psychotherapy, CCMH

The promise and pain of social media and cyber trauma, CCMH

Understanding and supporting self-harm and health-harming behaviours, CCMH

Working with highly defended children and challenging behaviour, CCMH

Working effectively with conflict in schools, families, couples and parent-child relationships, CCMH

Enabling children to speak about feelings through Art and Clay, CCMH

Bullying: effective tools and hands-on interventions, CCMH

Calm, creativity and competence: relaxation and calming techniques for children, CCMH

Enabling children to speak about feelings through Sandplay, CCMH

Understanding and implementing trauma informed practice, Wave Trust

Understanding eating disorders, BACP 

Anxiety & Depression, Family Wellbeing Practice

Working with major trauma, bereavement and complex grief, BACP

ASD: Presentations within a family and ways to support therapeutically, BACP

Why Pronouns Matter, BACP

Trauma & Attachment, BACP

Unearthing Therapeutic Adventures in Minecraft, Ellie Finch 

Domestic Abuse Awareness, BACP

Grief and loss, Pesi

Safety planning with suicidal clients, BACP

Helping children through adversity and building emotional resilience, death and loss, BACP 

Releasing Trauma From the Body, PESI

Using mindfulness to de-stress, reduce anxiety and stay present, PESI

Anxiety, trauma and self harm in children and adolescents, PESI

Trauma and Attachment in children and families, PESI

Trauma based anxiety and calming the anxious brain, PESI

Self-regulation interventions for children and young people with attachment trauma, PESI

Complex trauma – advances in working with structural dissociation, PESI 

Advances in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, PESI

Resilience: powerful practices for bouncing back from trauma and adversity, PESI