Training, qualifications, and experience

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My experience and qualifications are comprehensive, completing a three-year BSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy with the Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute in Nottingham (UK), which included my own attendance of personal therapy throughout the course. During this time, I provided regular counselling at a bereavement centre, offering therapy to people who were bereaved or to those living with a life limiting illness. 

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Since February 2023, I have worked in private practice here in the Netherlands, providing counselling services to adults who are experiencing a wide range of issues.

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I have an ongoing commitment to continual professional development and have completed additional CPD training in the following:

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• Bereavement

• Relational trauma

• Attachment 

 

Alongside my counselling experience, I have worked within the health and social care sector for the last 15 years, including working for the NHS and more recently as a Senior Manager for an older people’s charity based in the UK.

 

Areas in which I have experience in and can support you with, but not limited to the following:

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• Bereavement and loss

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Stress

• Relationship issues

• Work related issues

• General discontent/ unhappiness

• Childhood abuse

• Fertility issues

• Pregnancy/ birth/ postnatal depression 

• Illness and disability

• Expat issues

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My approach 

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As a Humanistic and Integrative therapist, I understand that not all counselling approaches will suit everyone, therefore I aim to work alongside you, to find a way of us working together that is right for you. I draw upon concepts from Person-centred therapy, Psychodynamic, Transactional Analysis and Gestalt to tailor an individual approach to suit you, which considers your physical, mental, and emotional needs. I believe that given a healthy environment we all have the capacity for self-growth and have the autonomy to be able to determine the life we want to live, and I believe that pursuing counselling can be the first steps to start living a more fulfilling life.

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