I have completed a four-year training in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy at The Metanoia Institute, and am a British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Senior Accredited Counsellor & Psychotherapist.

I have completed the Post-Graduate Diploma in the Psychodynamics of Human Development offered by The British Association of Psychotherapists, as well as the one-year Introduction to Group Analysis course at The Institute of Group Analysis. I am a qualified supervisor of counsellors and psychotherapists, having completed The Minster Centre Diploma in Supervision.

My development as a psychoanalytic practitioner continues through my attendance at group relations conferences, including those organised by the A.K. Rice Institute, and advanced training at The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

Further Information About Training and Accreditation Bodies

The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
The BACP is the leading professional body for counselling and psychotherapy and an automatic reference point for anyone seeking information on counselling and psychotherapy in the United Kingdom. As an organisation, it is leading the effort to make counselling and psychotherapy widely recognised as a profession whose purpose and activity is understood by the general public.

The Metanoia Institute
Founded in the early 1980′s, Metanoia is among the larger psychotherapy & and counselling educational institutions in Britain and is a charitable body. Metanoia was among the first in the country to offer humanistically oriented professional counselling and psychotherapy training programmes.

The British Association of Psychotherapists
The British Association of Psychotherapists specialises in individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adults, adolescents and children and is one of the foremost psychoanalytic psychotherapy training organisations in the country. The BAP, founded in 1951, is the longest established psychoanalytic psychotherapy association in Britain and, with over 500 members nationwide, is one of the largest. The Association uniquely brings together psychotherapists with different theoretical traditions, offering intensive clinical work and professional trainings in both Jungian Analytic and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for both Adults and Children and Adolescents.

The Institute of Group Analysis
The IGA is the premier institute in the UK for the training of group psychotherapists. Group analysis is an exciting and innovative approach to psychotherapy and has many fascinating and useful applications. The IGA offers a comprehensive and stimulating programme of short courses and workshops.

The Minster Centre
The Minster Centre was founded with the purpose of addressing the growing divergence between the humanistic and psychoanalytic schools of psychotherapy. The initial concern was to evolve a training philosophy that could integrate these different schools. At the same time there was also a concern to avoid producing a training that was either eclectic, in the sense of including anything and everything, or that presented itself as a new rigidly defined alternative.

The A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems
The A.K. Rice Institute is a community of teachers, students and practitioners of a discipline known as Group Relations. Group Relations offers a powerful and unique methodology for understanding how our unconscious experience significantly impacts our lives when we are in groups; from family to workplace to nation. At the core of group relations work is an event know as the Group Relations Conference. This is an intensive participatory process that provides participants the opportunity to study their own behaviour as it happens in real time.

The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis is a training organisation and a member of the psychoanalytic and psychodynamic section of The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. The Site was established in 1997 by senior members of the psychoanalytical community who wished to create an organisation and training that would foster critical, reflective and imaginative thinking about psychoanalytical practice. The Site is characterised by its interest in developing critical readings of psychoanalytic theories that are informed by contemporary European philosophy. This critical stance aims to address questions of subjectivity, language, experience, diversity and difference.