Degrees
Specifically for this role I have a Masters Degree in Psycho-analysis awarded with Distinction and a Teacher's Certificate awarded with Distinction by British Universities. Additionally I have studied at four further British Universities in Theology and Comparative Religion, English Literature and Linguistics, Psychology, and Sociology. I am certified to teach in the European Union and the United States. I am affiliated to a Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis and the European Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies.
My Expert Service
The issues that you bring can be absolutely anything and always in absolute confidence. Non judgmentally we will clearly formulate your priorities and the outcome you hope for, then practically support you till you get there.
We will begin with questions you wish to ask of me, then your narrative of the troubles that are challenging you. You will find me kindly, empathetic and non judgmental.
I will teach you how to change how to feel by changing your thinking and your behaviours using powerful CBT, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
This process of 'enabling' not only enhances the quality of your interior life but has the potential to transform your personal and social relationships be they at home, in education, at work or in society. It also equips you to better guide and care for those whom you love or for whom you are responsible.
I want to emphasize that I am not an ivory tower academic, or not only so. I bring to my side of the table, personal real life experiences of the good times and the hard times, with love and happiness, but also with the ordinary need to face the reality of difficulty, distress, even tragedy, in the lives of myself, my family, very close friends and of course innumerable clients. You will feel I understand because I have probably been where you are, or very close by.
Do believe that life’s Pandora’s box of grief and pain need not permanently overwhelm you. CBT works. Even in the moment of deepest distress, the fact that one cannot recall happiness does not mean that happiness is not there smiling, waiting patiently to be revisited just as the rose is always beautiful even though our eyes be blinded by tears.
Experience & Qualifications
I am a member of The British Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Psychotherapies and I am a Senior Associate of The Royal Society of Medicine. I have been in Education, Training and Psychology for 30 years. Latterly, I was employed by the State to support families, their disturbed children and their schools, sometimes over the Internet.I have been deployed by both the Social Services and the Probation Service to support mutual clients including with anger management, marital disputes, family counselling, sexual abuse reparation and by the provision of court reports. I was a Victim Support Counsellor. I am a member of the Anglican Communion so I can share a Christian perspective. I have owned and run a business and understand the pressures of commercial life. I have served in the British Special Forces, the SAS and therefore I am especially sensitive to the issues facing front line forces, their families and our veterans.
My Published Books on Amazon::
'Educating Rita' is a psycho-dynamic examination of the of the failure of school exclusions .
'Sailing with Dolphin through Rainbows'
Is my account of sailing alone across the South Atlantic en route to Australia in a 26 foot sailing boat.