Counselling

I have been working as a counsellor and psychotherapist in private practice since June 1992 and supervising other counsellors since February 1994. I have extensive experience, with over 20,000 client contact hours, working both long and short term, in counselling, psychotherapy and as a supervisor of other counsellors. I am a relationship specialis... t and an anger management consultant. I am committed to anti-discriminatory and gay affirmative practise and I celebrate and support diversity in myself and others. I was the resident counsellor at Bon Homie House in Southampton from 1997 to 2017 a residential care home for physically and mentally disabled adults. I counselled both residents and staff. I am the visiting resident mediator at the Family Contact Centre held at The Roberts Centre in Portsmouth. I have been involved in The Discovery Project, working with schools in Paulsgrove. I taught Level 3 Certificate Courses in Counselling Skills at St. Vincent College in Gosport. I enjoy working with organisations and was a founder and tutor of The Centre for Gestalt in Organisations training programme. Foundation training in family mediation (F.M.A. Hove) 1998 Post Graduate Diploma in Supervision, Consultancy and Team Support (Whittington Hospital) 2001 Post Grad Diploma in Attachment Focussed Therapy. (Wimbledon Guild) 2015. I am registered with the UKCP United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. I was a founder member of Hants and Isle of Wight Family Mediators Association. I am a member of the BACP British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. I am a member of the Directory of Pink Therapists. Southampton Health Care Trust 1996 In 1996 for 3 months I was part time locum counsellor at Ashurst Hospital working with physically disabled clients and their families, both in hospital and in their homes. Bon Homie House, Southampton 1996 to 2017. I was the in-house counsellor at Bon Homie House, which is a residential care home for physically and mentally disabled adults. I was employed there one morning a week ...Read More