Training, experience & qualifications

I am a highly experienced professional with extensive training in multiple therapeutic modalities. Certified as an IFS (Internal Family Systems) Therapist, I have completed comprehensive IFS and IFIO training since 2019, including IFS Levels 1-3, and other courses in addition, such as Advanced Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO) - betrayal and repair. I am UKCP accredited as an Integrative Psychotherapist, and have additional certifications in EMDR, Neurofeedback, Shiatsu, and a PhD, MSc and MA (Cantab) in the Social Sciences from London and Cambridge Universities. I bring a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach to therapy. I am in my own weekly IFS therapy and have continued frequent individual and group supervision by IFS and UKCP supervisors. I am peer reviewed AuDHD and bring neurodifferences together with IFS.

Including:

  • Certified as an IFS Therapist (Spring 2024)

  • EMDR (Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing) and IFS EMDR (Spring 2024)

  • UKCP reaccreditation (September 2023)

  • Internal Family Systems Therapy with IFS (UK) Levels 1, 2 and 3 (2018-2020) and Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO) 2019 - present.

  • I have regular IFS/IFIO and UKCP supervision, individually and in groups, as well as my own weekly IFS therapy.

  • Advanced IFIO - betrayal and repair 2023

  • I regularly go the the IFS Conference (online), listen to podcasts, read avidly and am a member of the Continuity Program (see below 2020- current) which is a program which includes monthly lectures by lead trainers and a consultation, consultation and demonstrations with Dick Schwartz:

    • Values and Beliefs in the therapy room - through an IFS Lens

    • Legacy and Cultural Burdens

    • Direct Access - An essential IFS skill

    • Intent, Impact and Intercultural Competence: how to successfully navigate difference

    • Somatic IFS

    • Intent, Impact and Intercultural Competence

    • Direct Access and IFS

    • Polyvagal and IFS

    • iFS and groups

    • IFS and neurodivergence

    • IFS and contracting with challenging protectors

    • IFS and addictive processes

    • IFS children and adolescents

    • IFS as potential treatment for physical illness - healing parts that make us sick

    • IFS - anxiety, depression and shame

    • Trauma, neuroscience and IFS

    • IFS treatment for sexual abuse: victims and perpetrators

  • UKCP accreditation as an Integrative Psychotherapist (2018).

  • Accredited Member of the National Counselling Society (2017).

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy from the Welsh Psychotherapy Partnership (2016).

  • Vilistus Neurofeedback Practitioners Certificate (2016).

  • Foundation course in Psychotherapy from the Minster Centre (2011).

  • MA, MSc and PhD in the Social Sciences from Cambridge and London Universities (1993-2000).

I work within the UKCP code of Ethics, and work with IFS, IFIO and UKCP supervisors .

  • Psychotherapist in private practice since 2013

  • On site counsellor in an alcohol and drug rehab centre 2013-2015.

  • Neurofeedback practitioner since 2016.

  • I trained in Shiatsu, with the European Shiatsu School (2002-2004)

  • I was a Lecturer and Researcher at London University 1994-2001.

  • I have an “unrelated to therapy” PhD and an MSc from the University of London, and attended Cambridge University for my undergraduate studies.