Over 21 years I have worked in tandem with my clients dealing with most of life's difficulties. Trauma. Abuses mental and physical, Addictions sexual, alcohol, drugs, food and affairs. Cross cultural issues of integration, difference, loss of freedom and fear of torture. Loss from death covering mourning and grief and guilt, retirement, redundancy, freedom, health and children moving on. Domestic violence, passive aggression and trust. Depression, selfworth, anxiety and how to manage happiness when it is longed for but unfamiliar.Qualifications & Training
2 years of Relate Couple training. 1989 - 1991.
3 years of London Marriage Guidance Training 1991 - 1994.
Advanced Diploma in Psychodynamic couple and one to one Counselling at LMG covering Psychodynamic Psychosexual Therapy. 1995.
2 years of study at The British Psycho-Analytical Society of Psychoanalysis in Britain today.
1 Year of study in CAT (Cognitive Analytical Therapy) in Homerton Hospital.Experience
Before 1989 I worked in the British film industry as an trainee editor and camera worker. I was a Member of the ACTT Union. I was a trainee statistician in The London Stock Exchange. I worked at The British Embassy in Washington DC and The Pentagon. I Interviewed at Share a Flat Agency. I was a Magistrate for 10 years. During that time I worked with a Probation Officer observing life in the Prison Service. I am the Mother of four children and guardian of four other children now all with families of their own.
1989 - 2003 working at London Marriage Guidance Council.
1991 - 2010 working in Private Practice in Central London covering the Kensington and Chelsea Post Codes.
2004 Being one of the founder members of Coupleworks.
1992- 1998. Working in the Coleville Health Centre. Health Centres in Hammersmith and Chelsea.
I do some online work and some telephone work when necessary due to the client going abroad or away for long periods. I have supervised some colleagues' work with their understanding that I have no diploma in supervision.Fees
I reserve three places for low fee payers. Otherwise my fee is discussed at the assessment session.
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Individual Counselling, Adults, Elderly, Men, Women, Young, Long-term, Short-term, Single sessions, Time-limited, Face-to-face, email, telephone, phone, Supervision, Low-cost sessions, General counselling, Behavioural, Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Counselling, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Freudian, Human Givens, Hypnotherapy, Integrative, Mindfulness, Person-centred, Psychodynamic, Relaxation, Solution-focused, Systemic, Transactional Analysis, Visualisation. |
