Qualifications & Skills  

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• Registered Mental Health Nurse Nursing and Midwifery council

• Specialist in Child & Adolescent Mental Health Greenwood Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental health 

• Registered Learning Disability Nurse Nursing and Midwifery council 

• Certified Play & Creative Arts Therapist Play Therapy United Kingdom

• Synergetic Play Therapy® Informed Practitioner Synergetic Play Therapy® institute 

• EMDR Practitioner (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprograming) EMDR Association UK

• Level 2 Theraplay practitioner Theraplay institute

• Additional training in childhood Trauma, Attachment, Systemic Family Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Brain development, behavioural problems and sensory difficulties  

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My passion for working therapeutically with children (age 3 and above), adolescents, adults and families began more than 23 years ago.

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I have extensive experience working with historical trauma including neglect, physical, emotional & sexual abuse, loss, bereavement, mental health difficulties, (anxiety, depression, PTSD and self harm) behavioural difficulties (school refusal, academic difficulties, anger and withdrawal), harmful sexual behaviour and people who are "Neurodivergent" (learning disability, Autism and brain damage) 

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I also support families with conflict, distress, illness or mental health problems 

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I have had the pleasure of working with children, adolescents & families from various ethnicities and backgrounds (living at home, with extended family, in local authority care, special guardianship and pre and post adoption) 

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I work in many different environments including;

schools and hospitals, (generic and secure) 

My therapy room has the ability

to adapt to the needs of the

child / young person 

& their family

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I have a full risk assessment for my therapy room and still have a protocol in place for Covid19