Brief Professional Biography

• Clinical Director - oversight of therapy services for a London private therapy organisation, 1yr.
• Director and Associate Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regents University International Business School (25yrs).
• NHS Psychotherapist and Clinical Psychotherapy Assessor (Whittington Hospital, 2yrs).
• NHS Pubic Health Advisor: Addiction Services Lead (headhunted, Mile End Hospital, 3yrs). 
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
• Qualified Teacher Status, QTS (Canterbury Christchurch University).
• Psychiatric Services: Psychotherapist (Psychiatric Outpatients with Complex Diagnoses, 1yr).
• Professional Debriefing: of Telephone Counsellors (burnout prevention, 8yrs).
• Telephone Counselling Trainer (Charity Helpline 8yrs).
• Forensic Chaplaincy: HMP High Down & HMP Downview London Prisons.
• MIND drop-in centre, Earls Court.
• Tate Gallery London, Exhibitions Manager (7yrs).
• Fulbourn Psychiatric Hospital, placement, Cambridge.
• Operating Theatre Auxiliary, Cambridge. 

Licensing Details:

UKCP Registered - United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

UKAHPP Higher Accredited - UK Association for Humanistic Psychology Practitioners

Specialties (often worked with)

Relationship Patterns: Manipulation, Abuse, Personality Traits or Disorders, Coercive Control, Rupture or Break-ups, Trauma, Affairs-Betrayal, Psychosexual issues.

Couple Relationships: Resetting, Discernment Therapy, Couple Alignment, Culture, History and Identity.

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

Career Coaching: Career Change or Alignment, Business Growth-Entrepreneur, Workplace Dynamics, Money Mindset, Expansion, Promotion, Speaking-Negotiating-Presenting, Interview and Job Search.

Theoretical Approaches Favoured (evidence based)

Exposure Response Therapy (effectively retraining the brain and body)

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

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

Humanistic (a highly relational, human interaction focus)

Intercultural Therapy (culture, race, ethnicity, language, faith, context-social background, power issues) 

Personal Areas of Interest

Behaviour & Body Language: Non-verbal and  Micro Expressions, Shame, Pervasive-Compulsive patterns of behaviour, Embodied Trauma

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

Futurist Therapy: Client Advocacy, Revision of Purist Therapy, Non-Pathologising Practice, Ethical AI, Psychological LLM's, Mental Health Innovation, Non-discriminatory EAP/Insurance Therapy Practice.