Qualifications, Experience and Training
I am a registered member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and have been in private practice since 1998, while at times also being employed as a drugs counsellor, a group facilitator, a trainer and a mental health worker.
Besides extensive one-to-one work, I have had particular experience in developing and running training programmes for professionals working in Social Care, facilitating a support group for those having experienced sexual abuse, and designing and leading confidence and self-esteem raising programmes for patients of a local Community Mental Health Team.
I am especially interested in the developmental and attachment theories and I understand the therapeutic relationship as being a space in which fixated feelings, beliefs and behaviours of the 'there-and-then' can be loosened in order to bring about increased spontaneity and contactfulness in the 'here-and-now'. Object Relations Theory, Relational Transactional Analysis and Integrative Psychotherapy are the main 'schools' that underpin my work.
COMPLETED TRAINING
-Introduction Year, Group Analysis, Turvey Centre, Bedford
-Supervisor Training, Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute
-EMDR training levels I and II, 'EMDR Workshops UK'
-Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy (UKCP accredited), Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute
-Transactional Analysis, The Berne, Kegworth
-CAPS in Psychotherapy, Bath Spa University College
-RSA in Counselling Skills, Bridgwater College
-Licensed NLP Practitioner
-Reiki Level I & II, Lerwick
-City and Guilds Certificate in Mental Health in the Community, Lerwick
-Licenciee en Philologie Germanique, University of Liege, Belgium
Specialised training in:
Sexual Abuse and Working with Sex Offenders, Child Protection, Group Therapy, Bodywork and Psychosomatic Expression, Drugs and Alcohol Misuse, Dual Diagnosis, Self-Harm and Suicide, Motivational Interviewing, Eating Disorders,Mickel Reverse Therapy
Research:
"The Impact of our Birth Stories on Script", Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute, 2006
Publications
"Understanding Motivation, Inviting Change", Sarah Frettingham, Veronica Murray, ITA Conference 2003
Registered Member of the UKCP
I abide by the Code of Ethics of the different modalities in which I practice and of the Institutes of which I am a member. As such, I also receive supervision by accredited supervisors and am committed to ongoing professional development.
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