About

Relational & Attachment-Based Therapies

• Dr. Sue Johnson’s Intensive Course in Emotionally Focused Therapy: Attachment-Based Interventions for Couples in Crisis
• Level 1 training with the Gottman Institute: Bridging the Couple Chasm
• RLT Level 1 Training Course, Relational Life Institute (2026)
• Soothing the Threatened Brain: Using Attachment Science to Create Bonding, Satisfying Relationships
• Working with Mother-Daughter Relationships Using the Mother-Daughter Attachment® Model for Healing and Empowerment

Trauma-Informed Practice

• Working with emotional triggers; trauma processing approaches
• Polyvagal Theory: Pathways to Stillness
• Working with Dissociative Disorders in Clinical Practice (PODS)
• Critical incident debriefing
• Mindfulness for health; guided imagery & visualisation
• Rewind Technique for trauma

Neuro-Affirming Practice & Neurodiversity

• Foundations of Neuro-Affirming Practice
• Respectful, ND-affirming work across the lifespan
• Autistic-spectrum-informed counselling considerations

Gender-Affirming Practice

• Working with transgender, non-binary & gender-questioning clients
• Developing gender identities — affirmative, client-led approaches

Sexuality, Intimacy & Relationship Diversity

• Integrative Sex Therapy for Couples: EFT, Attachment, Polyvagal, Somatic & Sensate Strategies for Rekindling Desire
• Sex-positive, pleasure-focused, trauma-aware approaches
• Open relationships, polyamory & Consensual Non-Monogamy in therapy
• Working with erotically expansive clients and couples

Creative & Integrative Approaches

• Creative Counselling (art journalling, therapeutic cards, colour, collage, clay…expressive methods)
• Sand-tray & symbolic / parts-friendly ways of working
• Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT, aka Tapping)
• Relaxation, visualisation & guided imagery, brief integrative techniques
• Walk & Talk / outdoor-based therapy

Reproductive Mental Health

• Reproductive Mental Health Specialist Certificate (20.75 CPD hours)
• Infertility, pregnancy loss and reproductive grief
• Birth trauma and perinatal mental health
• PMDD, postpartum and perimenopause-related mental health presentations
• Trauma-informed work with individuals and couples across the reproductive lifespan
• Hypnobirthing teacher training (2018) – informs discussions around birth preparation and birth-related anxiety, though I do not currently offer hypnobirthing programmes.

Women, Identity & Intergenerational Work

• Working with Mother-Daughter Relationships Using the Mother-Daughter Attachment® Model for Healing and Empowerment
• Women, beliefs & intergenerational trauma
• Women, trauma, sex and pleasure

Child, Adolescent & Family Work

• Counselling children & young people
• Working with Children – a Gestalt Approach
• Self-harm awareness
• Parent Effectiveness Training (instructor)
• Family Group Conference Coordinator Training with Daybreak FGC
• Certificate in Counselling Children and Young People

Bereavement & Loss

• Infant loss training
• Bereavement counselling & training in hospital & community settings
• Childhood bereavement networks & best-practice updates

Supervision, Ethics & Professional Practice

• Diploma in Clinical Supervision (CPPD)
• Ethics, boundaries & dual-relationship considerations
• Ongoing CPD with professional bodies & specialist providers

Modalities & Core Training

• Psychodynamic
• Person-centred
• Hypnotherapy

Additional Modalities & Skills

• Transactional Analysis 101
• CBT skills
• Gestalt in Action
• Brief solution-focused approaches
• Understanding eating disorders