About me

I love meeting people at a deeper level: when we risk revealing a part of ourselves that we don't normally get to. And, it’s my conviction that when we experience being met and understood at this level - and still accepted - then change is inevitable.

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Qualifications & Training

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• MA Counselling (University of Roehampton)

• Working Online, Online Events

• The Men's Room. An enquiry into modern manhood, William Ayot

• Facilitating therapeutic groups for boys with difficult emotions. ​​Nick Luxmoore

• Effective Anger Management Tools for Working With Men. James Hawes.

• Loving men: shame and intimacy and men. James Hawes.

• Introduction to Focussing, Paula Newman.

• Single Session Therapy Workshops, Windy Dryden

• Working with Autists Workshop, Max Marnau.

• Working With Highly Sensitive People  Workshop, Sally Pendreigh.

• Outdoors Therapy, Carmen Rendell

• Presence, Attitude, Dialogue & Style: Existential workshop with Lucia Moja- Strasser

• PGCE Secondary Teacher.

• BSc, Logic & Philosophy of Science and Physics (University of St Andrews)

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Experience

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I have experience working with:

• depression

• anxiety

• stress

• anger

• meaninglessness

• relationships

• gender and sexuality

• spirituality and faith

• career dissatisfaction

• parenting

• autists

• highly sensitive people (HSPs)

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I also work as secondary school teacher and am a parent of two  young boys.

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Interests

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As a secondary-school teacher, I have a passion for supporting fellow teachers in what is an extremely demanding role and am interested in bringing a psychotherapeutic understanding to teaching and learning.

 

I enjoy exploring and writing about the interaction between culture and the individual, seeing therapy in its wider social and historical perspective. See my Blog for a taste of this.

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I also am interested in the impact of spirituality and faith on our lives. See my Blog page for more.