Training
2013 - Diploma in Counselling (Psychodynamic)
Goldsmiths College (University of London)
2010 - Certificate in Counselling Skills (Integrative with a transcultural emphasis)
London Metropolitan University
Work experience
Volunteer Counsellor
March 2012 - October 2014
ELOP (East London Out Project) LGBTQ Centre
Honorary Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
Sept 2013 - Oct 2014
St Mungo's Broadway Homeless Hostel
2013 - Diploma in Counselling (Psychodynamic)
Goldsmiths College (University of London)
2010 - Certificate in Counselling Skills (Integrative with a transcultural emphasis)
London Metropolitan University
Work experience
Volunteer Counsellor
March 2012 - October 2014
ELOP (East London Out Project) LGBTQ Centre
Honorary Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
Sept 2013 - Oct 2014
St Mungo's Broadway Homeless Hostel
Professional qualifications/memberships
Member of National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society
(NCPS Accredited Registrant - MNCPS Accred.) NCS18-06202
Member of National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society
(NCPS Accredited Registrant - MNCPS Accred.) NCS18-06202
Other memberships
Psychotherapy and Counselling Union
Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility
Psychotherapy and Counselling Union
Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility
Short courses
Oct 17 - Making Trauma Therapy Safer
Jan 15 - Asexualities
Nov 14 - Working with chemsex
Sept 13 - Working with couples (of all sexualities and genders)
Jan 13 - HIV & AIDS awareness
Nov 12 - Sex, love, addiction and compulsivity
June 12 - Trans awareness
Oct 17 - Making Trauma Therapy Safer
Jan 15 - Asexualities
Nov 14 - Working with chemsex
Sept 13 - Working with couples (of all sexualities and genders)
Jan 13 - HIV & AIDS awareness
Nov 12 - Sex, love, addiction and compulsivity
June 12 - Trans awareness
Lectures and conferences
In the last few years I have attended academic lectures and conferences on issues including feminism, sex, gender and sexual diversity, and LGBTQIA+ issues.
April - Oct '21 Eco psychotherapy series of 12 seminars
Mar '21 - Conference: Borderline Personality Disorder: an attachment perspective
Feb '21 - Conference: Chronic pain and disrupted early attachments
Feb '21 - Conference: The inflammatory response
Feb '21 - Conference: The Highly Sensitive Person in psychotherapy
July '19 - Conference: International Meaning Conference - I gave a paper on Millennials and Nihilism
Oct '18 - Conference: BME Voices talk Mental Health
Sept '18 - Conference: Countertransference: Contemporary relational views of the Therapist's use of Self
Jul '18 - Conference: The Fragile Phallus (psychoanalytic perspectives on masculinity)
May '18 - Seminar: Bombs in the Consulting room
Apr ‘18 - Conference: Insecure attachment and unexplained illness - a therapist’s map
Sept '17 - Seminar: Critical Sexology - Non-Binary Genders.
May '17 - Conference: Men, patriarchy and mental health.
Apr '17 - Conference: Susy Orbach - Psychotherapy is a cultural issue.
Mar '17 - Conference: Transgender, gender and psychoanalysis.
May '16 - Conference: Queer(ing) Femininities.
May '16 - Symposium: Sexual Dissidence Now.
May '16 - Conference: Embodying Social Justice.
Apr '16 - Class in Counselling
Mar '16 - Beyond Gay & Straight Bisexuality Pink Therapy conference.
Feb '16 - Non-monogamy, polyamory and relationship anarchy conference, Manchester.
Feb '16 - My Gender Workshop by Kate Bornstein.
Dec '15 - Group Lives: Tales of Attachment IGA conference.
Nov '15 - Sexuality and Gender half-day Conference.
Sept '15 - Non-monogamies and contemporary intimacies 3-day conference, Lisbon.
June '15 - Conference in Critical Thought - radical transfeminism.
March '15 - Beyond the Rainbow Pink Therapy conference on BDSM/alternative sexualities. I was a speaker on the subject of Ageplay.
Oct '14 - BDSM & Gender research network launch.
May '14 - Gender & Sexuality Talks: Disability, relationships and sexuality.
April '14 - Trans* 2014 Pink Therapy 2-day conference.
Jan '14 - Thinking Intersectionality and the Transnational talk
Jan '14 - From civil partnership to same-sex marriage 2004-14 Workshop
Nov '13 - Gender & Sexuality Talks: Fat sexualities
In the last few years I have attended academic lectures and conferences on issues including feminism, sex, gender and sexual diversity, and LGBTQIA+ issues.
April - Oct '21 Eco psychotherapy series of 12 seminars
Mar '21 - Conference: Borderline Personality Disorder: an attachment perspective
Feb '21 - Conference: Chronic pain and disrupted early attachments
Feb '21 - Conference: The inflammatory response
Feb '21 - Conference: The Highly Sensitive Person in psychotherapy
July '19 - Conference: International Meaning Conference - I gave a paper on Millennials and Nihilism
Oct '18 - Conference: BME Voices talk Mental Health
Sept '18 - Conference: Countertransference: Contemporary relational views of the Therapist's use of Self
Jul '18 - Conference: The Fragile Phallus (psychoanalytic perspectives on masculinity)
May '18 - Seminar: Bombs in the Consulting room
Apr ‘18 - Conference: Insecure attachment and unexplained illness - a therapist’s map
Sept '17 - Seminar: Critical Sexology - Non-Binary Genders.
May '17 - Conference: Men, patriarchy and mental health.
Apr '17 - Conference: Susy Orbach - Psychotherapy is a cultural issue.
Mar '17 - Conference: Transgender, gender and psychoanalysis.
May '16 - Conference: Queer(ing) Femininities.
May '16 - Symposium: Sexual Dissidence Now.
May '16 - Conference: Embodying Social Justice.
Apr '16 - Class in Counselling
Mar '16 - Beyond Gay & Straight Bisexuality Pink Therapy conference.
Feb '16 - Non-monogamy, polyamory and relationship anarchy conference, Manchester.
Feb '16 - My Gender Workshop by Kate Bornstein.
Dec '15 - Group Lives: Tales of Attachment IGA conference.
Nov '15 - Sexuality and Gender half-day Conference.
Sept '15 - Non-monogamies and contemporary intimacies 3-day conference, Lisbon.
June '15 - Conference in Critical Thought - radical transfeminism.
March '15 - Beyond the Rainbow Pink Therapy conference on BDSM/alternative sexualities. I was a speaker on the subject of Ageplay.
Oct '14 - BDSM & Gender research network launch.
May '14 - Gender & Sexuality Talks: Disability, relationships and sexuality.
April '14 - Trans* 2014 Pink Therapy 2-day conference.
Jan '14 - Thinking Intersectionality and the Transnational talk
Jan '14 - From civil partnership to same-sex marriage 2004-14 Workshop
Nov '13 - Gender & Sexuality Talks: Fat sexualities
Insurance
I hold full professional liability insurance with Oxygen, underwritten by Hiscox.
I hold full professional liability insurance with Oxygen, underwritten by Hiscox.