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Experience

I have been working with people in private practice since 1992 when I started my first training as a counsellor.

I have always maintained my private practice alongside other work. This included a seven year period between 2001 and 2008 working in the NHS as a clinician and manager of a primary care GP counselling service in Newham, east London. Between 2004 and 2016 I developed my interest in primary care mental health in my role as clinical supervisor for a team of GP-based counsellors and therapists working for a local NHS Trust. I am also interested in supporting GPs and the psychological work that they do with their patients and to this end I run Balint groups for GPs and, latterly, for medical students at St George's Medical School in London - go ☞ here to read more about my Balint group leader work.

 

Prior to my work in Newham I worked for many years in the voluntary sector: at London Lighthouse in Ladbrook Grove, coordinating volunteer support for people with HIV/AIDS living independently in the community, and at The Red Admiral Project, a dedicated counselling centre for all those affected by HIV/AIDS, at the time, in Earls Court. 

Before retraining I had a successful career in IT and worked as a systems analyst and software engineer for large blue-chip companies in London. I continue to keep abreast of developments in IT and technology.

Training, accreditation and memberships

Following counselling training I began my psychotherapy training in 1995 at the Metanoia Institute in West London where I was awarded my Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy in 2001. At the same time I graduated from the University of Middlesex with a Masters degree in Gestalt Psychotherapy. I was awarded a post-graduate level Diploma in Clinical Supervision by the Whittington Hospital School of Counselling & Psychotherapy in 2000. I am a Graduate Member of the Gestalt Psychotherapy and Training Institute (GPTI) and registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), both as a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor. I am a member of the 

Irish Forum for Counselling & Psychotherapy and an accredited member of The Balint Society.

 

I continue to attend my own on-going, regular supervision with 

senior colleagues and maintain and develop my practice through various activities broadly described by the term Continuing Professional 

Development. 

You will find listings for me on the counselling-directory and welldoing.org sites.

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A man simply does not live, he is lived, and not simply

William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)

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