Offering healing and empowerment to individuals enabling them to enrich their lives and reach their potential
A Souls Journey:
Counselling, Psychotherapy, Supervision and Shamanic Healing
01458 831272
BA (Hons), Snr. Accred MBACP., UKRCP, BA (Hons)., Adv. Dip Couns., PG Dip., Cert. Ed,. MSC.
Qualifications
BA (Hons) in Economic and Social History , 1985 (University of Hull
Certificate in Counselling Skills (L2) and Counselling Studies (L2) 2004
Advanced Diploma in Counselling (L4) 2006 (Strode College)
Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling, 2009 (Bristol University)
MSc in Counselling, 2010 (Bristol University)
Cert. Ed. in Adult Education, 2007 (Strode College)
BACP Accreditation, 2010
BACP Senior Accreditation 2017
Continuing Professional Development (Most relevant)
Counselling Victims of Abuse (2004) Strode College
Dual Diagnosis (2004) Strode College
Somerset and Wessex Eating Disorders Agency, working with eating disorders. (2005)
Understanding Self Harm (2005) Strode College
Stress Management (2005) Strode College
Conflict Resolution (2005) Strode College
CRUSE Bereavement Training (2006)
Child Protection (2006) Strode College
The Spiritual in Counselling Conference ‘Building Bridges’ 2006
Introduction to CBT (2007) Strode College
The Spiritual in Counselling Conference ‘Ways of the Earth’ (2007)
Exploring Research Findings (2010) CPCAB
Using Stories of Experience for Research with Kim Etherington, Phd (2012)
Understanding Substance Misuse (2012) CPCAB
The Supervisory Relationship: Difficulties and Delights at the British Psychological Society, London. (2014)
Fundamentals of Supervision (2016) CSTD Bath
PTSD, Dual Awareness & the Sensory Nervous System, with Babette Rothschild (2016)
Trauma Dialogues Conference ‘Responding to a World in Turmoil’ (2016)
Working with Domestic Abuse (2017) Christiane Sanderson
One Year training with Babette Rothschild on Somatic Therapy for PTSD and Trauma. (2018)
Trauma, Abandonment & Privilege with Nick Duffell (2018)
2nd International Conference of Pluralistic Psychotherapy and Counselling (2019)
The Devil You Know (2021) Dr Gwen Adshead, Forensic Psychiatrist and Psychoanalytical Psychotherapist
The Cost of Caring in an Online World, (2021) Christiane Sanderson
Borderline Personality Disorder and Traumatic Attachment (2021) Dr Janina Fisher
Partner, Parent, Child – the many expected roles of Therapist: Exploring boundaries in therapeutic practice (2022) Dr. Gwen Adshead
The Unseen Scars of Adverse Childhood Experiences (2022) Christiane Sanderson
Shamanic Training
Warrior in the Heart. One year Training in core shamanism with Howard and Elsa Malpass (2004)
Way of the Kestrel. One year training with Jay and Kestrel Oakwood (2005)
The Deeper Journey. One year training with Jay and Kestrel Oakwood (2012)
The Shaman’s Pathway. Simon Buxton/Sacred Trust (2017)
Soul Retrieval and Extraction. Simon Buxton/Sacred Trust (2018)
The Spirit of the Drum. Simon Buxton/Sacred Trust (2019)
Compassionate Depossession. Simon Buxton/Sacred Trust (2019)
Supervision
Counselling
Physchotherapy
'We have it in our power to begin the world again'
Thomas Paine, 1977