I have completed a four-year training in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy (MSc) at The Metanoia Institute, and am a qualified counsellor accredited with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. I abide by the Codes of Ethics and Codes of Professional Practice of both those organisations.

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. My additional short trainings are in the areas of gestalt psychotherapy, men’s issues, body image, and identity. My most recent training is The Minster Centre Diploma in Supervision for the Helping Professions, which I now draw on in my work as a supervisor of counsellors and psychotherapists.

The Metanoia Institute
With around 1000 active members, 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. Founded in the early 1980's Metanoia has been operating successfully for over twenty years.

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 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.