My qualifications to practise are:
MA in Integrative Psychotherapy (1998-2000, with Distinction); PG Dip. Psychotherapy (1994-99); Diploma in Integrative Clinical Supervision (2003-2004); Diploma in Relational Couples Therapy (2015-16; 2017-18); Environmental Arts Therapy experiential training (2025); BA Psychology (1988).
While training to be a psychotherapist, I held a staff position as a counselling supervisor at ChildLine. After qualifying, initially I worked as a senior practitioner in an inner city counselling agency, before taking up an NHS Psychological Therapies post in the London Borough of Haringey. Based at the Halliwick Psychotherapy Department, I worked for the NHS for seven years, at both primary and secondary care levels, providing time-limited and longer-term therapies to a culturally diverse range of clients presenting with an equally diverse range of psychological experiences.
I consider my tenure in the NHS to have been my second training. Over this period, I also qualified as a clinical supervisor and began working as a trainer and educator in my profession.
While training to be a psychotherapist, I held a staff position as a counselling supervisor at ChildLine. After qualifying, initially I worked as a senior practitioner in an inner city counselling agency, before taking up an NHS Psychological Therapies post in the London Borough of Haringey. Based at the Halliwick Psychotherapy Department, I worked for the NHS for seven years, at both primary and secondary care levels, providing time-limited and longer-term therapies to a culturally diverse range of clients presenting with an equally diverse range of psychological experiences.
I consider my tenure in the NHS to have been my second training. Over this period, I also qualified as a clinical supervisor and began working as a trainer and educator in my profession.
In 2010, I moved to the West Country to take up a part-time teaching position at Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling (BCPC), at the same time establishing the foundations of what was to become a successful supervision and psychotherapy practice in Bristol.
After working in Bristol and Bath for a few years, I began developing a new specialism in couples therapy, embarking on post-qualifying training with the Centre for Relational Couples Therapy (CRCT, Gloucestershire). I completed all elements of CRCT's programme – comprising Certificate and Diploma-level training, clinical practice hours and practitioner supervision – in 2018 and, in 2020, a further professional development programme in couples therapy at Tavistock Relationships in London (tavistockrelationships.org).
My professional development over the past three years has focused on the emerging discipline of ecopsychology and related therapeutic modalities. My training in these areas includes an introductory course in Wild Therapy (2022), rooted in the work of Nick Totton, as well as an experiential course in Environmental Arts Therapy (2025) with Environmental Arts Therapy UK.
My professional development over the past three years has focused on the emerging discipline of ecopsychology and related therapeutic modalities. My training in these areas includes an introductory course in Wild Therapy (2022), rooted in the work of Nick Totton, as well as an experiential course in Environmental Arts Therapy (2025) with Environmental Arts Therapy UK.
