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MY EXPERIENCE

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Professional â€‹
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  • ​Registered with Health & Care Professions Council - reg no: AS01896

  • Former Education Assessor for Health and Care Professions Council approved training programmes

  • Former 'fitness to practice' panel member for Health and Care Professions Council investigatory/disciplinary panel

Work​
experience​
Consultant Psychological Practitioner/Locality Lead for Psychological Services
Kent & Medway NHS Trust

​2005 - present

  • ​Providing clinical leadership to a specialist team of Psychologists and Psychotherapists, offering therapy, consultation and supervision within a community mental health setting.

  • Providing individual and group therapy to 'difficult to engage' clients with long and complex histories of mental health problems.

 

 

Specialist Psychological Practitioner/Cinical Specialist

East Kent Community NHS Trust

1989 - 2005

  • ​Provided individual and group therapy in a range of mental health settings: including in-patient wards, acute day treatment unit and community mental health teams.

  • Provided systemic family therapy within Adult and Child & Adolescent mental health settings.

 

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Roehampton University

​1994 - present

  • ​Providing lectures, workshops and seminars to post-graduate programmes within the department

  • Supervising Masters dissertations

  • Year Tutor for final year Dramatherapy trainees

Clinical Experience

As well as common mental health problems of anxiety & depression, I also work with:

Anger & Aggression

Child Sexual Abuse

Combat Trauma

Dissociative Experiences

Domestic Violence

Hearing Voices

Obsessive Ruminations

Psychotic Experiences

Relationship Problems

Self-destructive Behaviours

Self Harm

Sexual Obsessions

Suicidal Preoccupations

Education
Post-graduate Diploma in Dramatherapy

​1992

Institute of Dramatherapy, Roehampton Institute of Higher Education

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Post-graduate Certificate in Forensic Psychotherapy

​1996

​ Portman & Tavistock NHS Trust/University of London

 

 

 

Post-graduate Certificate, Working with Personality Disorder

​2006

Kent University

 

I have also undertaken numerous short course trainings in Systemic (Family) Psychotherapy and '3rd Generation' Cognitive Behavioural Therapies
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