“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”
Santayana
Completed Integrative Psychotherapist training with the Welsh Psychotherapy Partnership in 2014; UKCP accredited in 2016. Earned a postgraduate diploma in Contemporary Trauma Practice from Relational Change (Oxford) in 2019. Continuing involvement with this Relational Change Diploma as Guest Trainer.
Initial psychotherapy training for a diploma at the Institute of Arts in Therapy and Education (London). This builds on over twenty five years mental health experience across roles from psychiatric advocacy to specialist mental health housing. Skilled in supporting clients across diverse diagnoses and coordinating referrals when beneficial, while also respecting individual perspectives on diagnosis.
Significant points
- BA (Philosophy & Literature 1 Jnt Hons.) 1992
- Certificate in Community Mental Health 1996
- Diploma in Arts in Therapy and Education (IATE, 2007)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy (WPI, 2016)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Contemporary Trauma Practice (Relational Change, 2019)
- General Certificate in Online Therapy (Distinction – Academy for Online Therapy)
- UKCP membership (number 2011165308)
- NCS Senior Accreditation.
- Psychotherapy Supervisor in training – CSTD 2024/6
- Participant: Grof Legacy Training [Transpersonal/ Holotropics] 2025/28
‘We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.’
T.S Eliot, Four Quartets