MY QUALIFICATIONS
Academic training
I have a diploma and advanced diploma in existential psychotherapy and counselling and two certificates in humanistic therapy. I am a registered U.K.C.P. psychotherapist and supervisor and have been working as a therapist for 26 years and as a supervisor for 22years.
But of course I am still learning.
Non Academic training, or life experience.
In the same way that psychotherapy does not make the man or woman but simply helps them to understand and accept themselves and see what choices are possible, therapy training and continual professional development do not make the therapist.
We all have our life experiences. And I believe that these life experiences are just as valuable to the work of the therapist as the academic psychotherapeutic training.
I have helped to bring up my four children through to adulthood, experienced the break up of relationships and the loss of close friends and family.
I studied Fine Art for 7 years and lectured in painting and drawing at various colleges. 9 years were spent in France working as a painter.
Music is important to me I play the piano and write songs. Over the past 15 years l have returned to painting as another form of personal enquiry and expression.
