Training, experience & qualifications

I am a highly experienced and UKCP-accredited Integrative Psychotherapist with extensive training across multiple therapeutic modalities. I bring a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach to therapy, integrating evidence-based practices with body-based and neurobiological understanding.

Certified as an Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist, I have completed IFS Levels 1–3, as well as in-depth training in Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO), including advanced modules on betrayal and repair. I continue to deepen my relational work and am currently on the certification track to become a Relational Life Therapy (RLT) couples therapist.

In addition to my psychotherapy credentials, I hold certifications in EMDR, Neurofeedback, and Shiatsu. My academic background includes a PhD, MSc, and MA (Cantab) in the Social Sciences from Cambridge and London universities.

My practice is informed by ongoing personal and professional development. I am in regular IFS therapy myself and receive frequent individual and group supervision from both IFS, RLT and UKCP-accredited supervisors. I also bring lived experience and insight as peer-reviewed AuDHD, integrating neurodivergent perspectives into my therapeutic work.

Including:

• Certified as an IFS Therapist (Spring 2024)

• Relational Life Institute courses - Grandiose Women, Love avoidant, Coming back from Infidelity - a relational life approach, Five steps to dramatically improve our clients relationships to themselves, Working with Grandiosity,

• EMDR (Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing) and IFS EMDR (Spring 2024)

• UKCP reaccreditation (September 2023)

• Internal Family Systems Therapy with IFS (UK) Levels 1, 2 and 3 (2018-2020) and Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO) 2019 - present.

• I have regular IFS/IFIO, RLT and UKCP supervision, individually and in groups, as well as my own weekly IFS therapy.

• Advanced IFIO - betrayal and repair 2023

• I regularly go the the IFS Conference (online), listen to podcasts, read avidly and am a member of the Continuity Program (see below 2020- current) which is a program which includes monthly lectures by lead trainers and a consultation, consultation and demonstrations with Dick Schwartz:

  • Values and Beliefs in the therapy room - through an IFS Lens

  • Legacy and Cultural Burdens

  • Direct Access - An essential IFS skill

  • Intent, Impact and Intercultural Competence: how to successfully navigate difference

  • Somatic IFS

  • Intent, Impact and Intercultural Competence

  • Direct Access and IFS

  • Polyvagal and IFS

  • iFS and groups

  • IFS and neurodivergence

  • IFS and contracting with challenging protectors

  • IFS and addictive processes

  • IFS children and adolescents

  • IFS as potential treatment for physical illness - healing parts that make us sick

  • IFS - anxiety, depression and shame

  • Trauma, neuroscience and IFS

  • IFS treatment for sexual abuse: victims and perpetrators

• UKCP accreditation as an Integrative Psychotherapist (2018). Reaccreditation 2023.

• Accredited Member of the National Counselling Society (2017).

• Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy from the Welsh Psychotherapy Partnership (2016).

• Vilistus Neurofeedback Practitioners Certificate (2016).

• Foundation course in Psychotherapy from the Minster Centre (2011).

• MA, MSc and PhD in the Social Sciences from Cambridge and London Universities (1993-2000).