WHAT I CAN OFFER YOU
WHAT I CAN OFFER YOU
CBT - A highly effective, clinically proven treatment for a broad range of mental health and psychological difficulties. A collaborative process between you and myself, the therapist. CBT teaches you the skills to readjust your thinking and behaviour in order for you to feel better in your mood.
EMDR for single events/incidents and complex traumas. EMDR is a powerful therapy designed to help people recover from traumatic events in their lives. EMDR is recognised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as an effective therapy.
National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) approved guidance on treatment protocols that I follow for both CBT and EMDR therapies.
NHS based clinical Training based on the latest evidence-based models and techniques, to provide you with a high standard of care.
I am adaptable in my approaches to suit your needs and can negotiate on number of sessions you wish to have. I will be here to navigate with you through your journey to emotional/mental wellbeing in the best way possible with/for you.
Participation in CPD courses and clinical supervision as suited to my job to keep my knowledge current.
Collaborative working and goal centred treatment.
Monitoring of progress via completion of specialised questionnaires to help us both to better understand how you are feeling and regularly reviewing these.
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COMMON DIFFICULTIES THAT I CAN WORK WITH
- Depression
- Adjustment to living with long term physical health difficulties
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Social Anxiety
- Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
- Health Anxiety
- Specific Phobias and Agoraphobia
- Panic Disorder
- Tourette’s Syndrome
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
- Separation Anxiety
- Stress
- Couples' issues
- Behavioural and Emotional Difficulties in Children and Young people, including Anger issues
- I incorporate mindfulness, compassion focused therapy (CFT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) based (third wave) approaches to my practice and I use the flash technique in conjunction with CBT and EMDR treatments.
- Areas of interest - Long term health conditions that include Long Covid and Menopausal symptoms, OCD and PTSD.
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Are you ready to get on the path to a healthier you? Get in touch today to get started!
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My Profile of Current and Past Experiences
I am a Fully Accredited CBT Therapist, Registered Mental Health Nurse and Accredited EMDR Therapist with over 18 years experience of working within the NHS for various Mental Health Services and I have over 3 years experience working Privately using CBT and EMDR. I did my initial mental health training in the NHS from 2003 to 2006. I also have a background in Teaching, having taught secondary school level pupils for 6 years before embarking on my mental health training.
I have experience of using the CBT approach whilst working within a therapeutic dimension at a specialist children and adolescents mental health service (Specialist CAMHS) and whilst working with adults at Primary Care Psychological Therapy Services/ the improving access to psychological therapies (IAPT), now called Talking Therapies. I also have experience working with adults as a Mental Health Nurse in both inpatient and community mental health services. I additionally have experience of using EMDR in treating single event traumas, complex traumas, phobias, depression, health anxiety and panic disorders where trauma is a driver of the conditions whilst working in both the NHS and in private work.
My experience in teaching is as below.
Teacher of GCSE / O' level Mathematics at Secondary Schools in Zimbabwe, January 1996 - August 2001. Supply teaching at different schools in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire in the UK, January 2002 - March 2002. Participant Observer at a Primary school, Secondary school and a Special school in Hertfordshire whilst studying for my MEd with Birmingham University from 2003 - 2006. Delivered Mathematics lessons to pupils of Secondary School age. This involved assessing pupils' level of learning needs, planning, implementing and evaluating lessons daily, weekly and termly. Wrote termly schemes of work, offered children extra lessons as needed, worked with other teachers as a team to improve school curriculums, attended teachers' team meetings, addressed pupils at assemblies. I worked with parents and other senior staff members to maintain discipline in the schools and helped the children to pursue leisure activities (sporting activities and other hobbies). I coached/ trained volleyball players. I worked with other staff members to cater for the emotional wellbeing and enrichment of pupils' experiences in the schools. I showed empathy and unconditional positive regard to pupils coming from different backgrounds.