QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Qualifications
I successfully completed five
years of post-graduate training in psychotherapy at Regent’s University to achieve:
The Post Graduate Diploma: Integrative Psychotherapy & Counselling
The Advanced Diploma: Existential Psychotherapy
The Hans W.Cohn Award for Excellence by The Society of Existential Analysis.
Subsequently I have undertaken
additional specialist training in
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) and Mindfulness. I continually explore relevant training opportunities and read up on
current developments in psychology and psychotherapy so as to keep up to date with important new research and evolving professional practice.
Experience
I have been a practicing
psychotherapist for 9 years in private practice and in the NHS in London. I had
previous successful careers in the fashion and catering businesses and
have also raised two children while moving between four different European countries.
Consequently, I am very sensitive to the difficulties often encountered by people struggling to adapt to new and unusual cultural environments. I have specific experience of working with the difficult or confusing transitionsfrom young adulthood, into parenthood, middle age or old age and possible bereavement. I am fully conscious of the anxiety or sense of despair these changes can bring about.
Languages
I can offer therapy in English, Italian and French.