MY PROFESSIONAL JOURNEY
I started my therapy training (a 10 week Level 2 Counselling Skills couse) in 2019 and went on to a (21 week fast track) Level 3 in 2020, where we mixed theoretical learning about the approach with regular practice of 'doing counselling skills’, live with a peer from the college group.
There would also be another peer observing and making notes about our performance and these were called Skills Triads. I continued this practical practice right across my Level 3 and a proceeding two year Level 4 Therapeutic Counselling course.
Between 2024 and mid 2025 I provided approximately 150 voluntary counselling sessions - in house - for tenants and workers of a housing co-operative, and for the clients of an addiction service in my local area.
I qualified as a therapist in early 2025 with a Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling from Beverley College and I set up my own private practise in Feb 2026. I’m currently seeing clients from my home therapy room.
THE KINDS OF ISSUES I'VE WORKED WITH
I've had the good fortune to be able to offer help to a number of people with a wide range of issues, and I've found that in almost all circumstances my person-centered approach (alongside some awareness of safely working with the symptoms of trauma) has been extremely beneficial to my clients in their journeys.
The experience I have specifically includes working with and around issues that include...
Shame and guilt, loss of employment, identity crisis, traumatic bereavement, social anxiety, confidence issues, drug and alcohol addiction, health anxiety, relationship breakdown, physical and emotional abuse.
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