Professional Background

• Clinical Director: oversight of therapy services for a London private therapy organisation.
• Director and Associate Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling: Regents University International Business School (25yrs).
• NHS Psychotherapist and Clinical Psychotherapy Assessor: Whittington Hospital, 2yrs.
• NHS Pubic Health Advisor: Addictions Lead, Mile End Hospital (headhunted, 3yrs). 
• Psychiatric Services Psychotherapist: Psychiatric Outpatients with Complex Diagnoses.
• Professional Debriefing: Burnout Prevention of Telephone Helpline Counsellors (8yrs).
• Telephone Counselling Trainer: Training Helpline Counselling Skills for a Charity (8yrs).
• Forensic Chaplaincy: HMP High Down & HMP Downview, London Prisons.
• MIND drop-in centre: Earls Court branch, London.
• Tate Gallery Exhibitions Manager: Staff, Retail, Private views, Ticketing, Accounts (7yrs).
• Fulbourn Psychiatric Hospital: placement, Cambridge.
• Operating Theatre Auxiliary: Cambridge. 

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Qualified Teacher Status (QTS, DTLLS, CertEd) Canterbury Christchurch University.

Licensing:

UKCP Registered - United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

UKAHPP Higher Accredited - UK Association for Humanistic Psychology Practitioners

Specialties 

Relationships: Patterns/Dynamics, Identity, Personality Disorders/Traits (couples, family, social, workplace).

Common Mental Health Disorders (CMD's):  Anxiety-Panic, OCD, Stress-PTSD, Depression, Body issues. 

Career: Career Change or Alignment, Line management, Colleague dynamics, Business Growth-Expansion, Team issues, Entrepreneur, Money Mindset, Promotion, Speaking-Presenting, Interview-Job search.

Evidence based Theoretical Approaches (favoured)

Exposure Response Therapy (retraining the brain and body)

New/Third Wave CBT (CBT with Mindfulness, ACT, DBT and CFT)

Psychodynamic including Brief & Short term Psychodynamic (BPT & STDP)

Humanistic relational interactional focus

Intercultural Therapy (ones identity, culture, ethnicity, faith-religion, contextual and social background) 

Personal Areas of Interest

The Body: Non-verbal Expression, Shame and Embodied Trauma.

Forensic Psychology: Socratic Questioning, Cognitive Dissonance, Self Deception, Verbal Discrepancy.

Futurist Therapy: Revising Purist Therapy (Non-Pathologising), Innovation, EAP-Insurance Therapy Training.