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Life Background
Experience and Personal Approach
Experience and Personal Approach
Having been through mental health issues at various stages of my life I have first hand experience of the difficulties a person can face in overcoming these which I now have worked through (with the help of mental health therapy). These being witnessing domestic abuse as a child, childhood bullying, self esteem, health anxiety, post natal depression, general anxiety and depression.
Experience and Personal Approach
Experience and Personal Approach
Experience and Personal Approach
Having worked in the NHS since 2007 as a primary care wellbeing practitioner moving onto an accredited cognitive behavioural therapist in mental health therapy. I help people who suffer with depression, OCD, phobias, PTSD, generalised anxiety disorder, panic, health anxiety and body dysmorphic disorder. I also work with clients with long term health conditions which effect there mental health.
My Vision
Experience and Personal Approach
My Vision
Having been through mental health issues myself, my aim to my clients is to provide a holistic mental health therapy approach which will not only be using a trained method of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, I will also include looking into the past to draw on behaviours brought forward now alongside physical health, Socialisation, employ
Having been through mental health issues myself, my aim to my clients is to provide a holistic mental health therapy approach which will not only be using a trained method of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, I will also include looking into the past to draw on behaviours brought forward now alongside physical health, Socialisation, employment issues, relationships and financial issues to help mental wellbeing in relation to depression and anxiety.
Additional Training
- Course: Exploring The Issues: A look at Motherhood. Date: December 2007. Provider: The Breastfeeding Network.
- Course: Disability Equality Training for Front Line Staff. Date: 2007. Provider: Walsall Teaching Primary Care Trust.
- Course: Recovery Awareness Training. Date: 2007. Provider: Changes.
- Course: Supporting Victims. Date: 2007. Provider: Walsall Domestic Violence Forum Ltd.
- Course: Level 3 Community Mental Health Care. Date 2007. Provider: City & Guilds.
- Course: Breaking the Cycle of Depression without drugs. Date: 2007. Provider: Mindfields College.
- Course: Effective Anger Management. Date: 2007. Provider: Mindfields College.
- Course: Mental Health First Aid Course. Date: 2008. Provider: MHFA England, Care Services Improvement. Partnership (CSIP) and National Institute for Mental Health in England.
- Course: 3 day Caring for Carers Training Programme. Date: 2009. Provider: Meriden the West Midlands Family Programme.
- Course: Race Equality Cultural Competence. Date: 2009. Provider: Walsall NHS/Shropshire Council and SSSFT NHS Foundation Trust.
- Course: Child Protection. Date: 2009. Provider: SSSFT NHS Foundation Trust.
- Course: Workshop for Collaborative Working. Date: 2009. Provider: Foremost Solutions.
- Course: Mental Health Act 1983 Training. Date: 2011. Provider: South Staffordshire and Shropshire (SSSFT) Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
- Course: Identification and Brief Advice for Alcohol Users . Date: 2011. Provider: Telford & Wrekin Council and MerciaNet North.
- Course: Dual Diagnosis certificate. Date: 2012. Provider: Walsall NHS.
- Course: Inclusive Services for Trans People. Date: 2014. Provider: Gender Matters.
- Course: CBT for Recurrent Depression. Date: 2014. Provider: University of Birmingham.
- Course: Cognitive Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder. Date: 2016. Provider: BABCP.
- Course: Promoting Safe and Therepeutic Services. Date: 2016. Provider: SSSFT NHS Foundation Trust.
- Course: Working With Depression. Date: 2017. Provider: SDS Seminars Ltd & British Psychological Society.
- Course: Chronic Depression & Co -Morbidity. Date: 2017. Provider: University of Surrey.
- Course: An Introduction into Understanding & Working With Complexity. Date: 2017. Provider: Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre.
- Course: Resilience- A Reflective Workshop :2019: Shropshire Council, Joint Training.
- Adapting CBT for autism - BABCP - 2021
- Traumatology training - NET 2021
- Socratic Questioning - Bespoke Mental Health 2021
- CBT for chronic illness- Bespoke Mental Health 2022
- Working with complex and complicated PTSD - 2022
- Transgender awareness training ( NHS)- 2022
- Current approaches to Generalsed Anxiety disorder ( Bespoke)-2022
- CBT approaches for adult autism ( Bespoke)- 2022
- CBT for healrth anxiety and unexplained symptoms ( Bespoke) - 2022
- Optimising outcomes in CBT for OCD ( Bespoke) - 2023
- CBT for PTSD ( Bespoke) -2023
- Using Imagery in CBT ( Bespoke) - 2023
- Narrative Exposure Therapy ( NHS) 2023
- Cognitive Processing Therapy ( Patricia Resick ) ( NHS) -2023
Call me now to book a therapy appointment on 07738444200.
