Psychotherapist
MA MBACP Post Grad Dip Psychotherapy, Post Grad Cert Child and Adolescent Counselling, Advanced Dip Counselling, EMDR
Independent Expert therapeutic assessment of adults, children and families, providing expert opinion in Child and Family Proceedings. To date, I have provided over 500 assessments and reports for family courts since 2003 and, I regularly provide oral evidence in the family courts. I have particular expertise in family therapy and the rehabilitation of looked after children to their birth family/parents. I have a number of Associates, providing a range of therapies and psychological assessment, all associates are qualified Chartered Psychologists with membership of the BPS, who can also provide Expert opinion in Family Proceedings. I offer therapeutic support to clients and lawyers in Collaborative Practice divorce. I am currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Central Lancashire; research and Doctoral Thesis: Supervised Contact within Public Law Family Proceedings.
Schema Therapy, Pathological Grief Therapy, Bereavement Counselling, Children and Sexual Abuse, Systemic Family Therapy, CBT, Attachment Therapy, Interviewing Children in Sexual Abuse Proceedings and Best Evidence Validation, Bond Solon Court Room Skills, Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP)
Member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Member of British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect