Experience...

21 years working in schools...

• Primary - SEN Learning Support Assistant, Learning Mentor.

• Secondary - Outreach Support Worker (Dacorum Education Support Centre), Student Support Worker.

3 years volunteering with CAMHS...

• Adolescent In-patient unit - Service Experience Volunteer.

Continuing Professional Development...

• Rewind Technique - Dr Muss, International Association for Rewind Trauma Therapy.

• Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Children and Young People with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Anna Freud Centre training.

• Fusion Advanced Mindfulness - an integration of mindfulness with therapeutic coaching.

• Protective Behaviours Practitioner - Levels 1 and 2.

• Motivational Interviewing/Dialogue - BPS training in skills and techniques which help motivate people towards change.

• Five Ways to Wellbeing - the five key activities that have been shown to improve wellbeing.

• Learning Mentor National Training.

• Brief Therapy - Solution Focused thinking.

• Self-harm and Spot the Signs suicide prevention training.

Of course, it's not all about qualifications. It's also about the relationship I build with my clients.

See what children, young people, parents and schools have to say about me in How it Helps.