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I've provided Psychodynamic therapy to a wide and interesting variety of people, from many different backgrounds and cultures. I have an interest in how loss (in its many different forms : death, ending of relationships, loss of self) can take root internally as melancholy affecting our capacity to have close relationships with others.
Before becoming a Psychodynamic Therapist in 2012 I worked in a large bank as a Learning and Development Consultant and Leader supporting colleagues with their career development needs. This quote captures what I still believe good leadership is ... "The good to great leaders never wanted to become larger than life heroes. They never aspired to be put on a pedestal or become unreachable icons. They were seemingly ordinary people quietly producing extraordinary results". Jim Collins, Good to great.
I have a special interest in linguistics; how we communicate with others and with ourselves can and does fundamentally impact the nature of our personal and professional relationships; how we see the world is filtered through the language we use. I'm currently in year 4 of a six year BA Honours in Language studies (French and English) with the Open University.
I have a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling & Psychodynamic Therapy (University of Edinburgh) and a Certificate in Clinical Supervision (Northern Guild, Newcastle). A selection of my recent CPD includes:Developmental Psychology, Intro to Psychology, Critical Thinking, Social Anthropology, Women in Philosophy, Women and Girls on the autism spectrum.
I will commence studies in September 2024 in Personality Disorders with the University of the West of Scotland.
I'm a Registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and a Member of the Society for Existential Analysis.