My Life Background
I carry cross culture living experience and have worked with diverse groups of people from different cultures, ages, walks of life and places of living. I am experiencing world from neurodiverse perspective and function in two languages at the same time. I have history of 10 years of working in corporate environment before shifting to work in therapeutic and creative fields 10 years ago. As a person, therapist, artist I also experienced life’s unavoidable aspects like grief, struggles with mental health, family challenges and are like any other human creating the world of own emotional landscape. I am a freedom seeker who is not afraid to question status quo in order to see beyond conventional thinking and my passion about living creatively is present in every day life.
Formal Qualifications
I am a Qualified Creative Counsellor member of BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and follow the principles of their ethical framework. Below you find the timeline of my main formal qualifications. I always work on my own professional development and complete regular CPD trainings and sessions with professional organisations in therapy and creativity field. I am in regular supervision. I am trauma and parts informed counsellor. I am also trained to Level 4 Clay Therapist and experienced certified Therapeutic Arts Practitioner working in the field of therapeutic creativity since 2015.
I hold DBS check renewed every year, Mental Health and Suicide First Aider, Safeguarding (adult and children), Prevent and Data Protection certificates as well as have a full Public and Liability insurance.
2023 - 2023
Advanced Certificate in Parts Work
Temenos Education Advanced Certificate covering structured disassociation, parts work and Psychology of Selves, including trauma informed somatic approach.
2023 - 2023
2022
Clay Therapy Certificate
2020-2022
L4 Diploma in Therapeutic Integrative Counselling (with the use of Creative Arts)
2020-2022
2019-2020
L3 Certificate in Counselling Studies
2019
L2 Certificate in Counselling Skills
2019
2018
Intoduction to Counselling
2017
Post Level Certificate in Therapeutic Use of Arts
2017
2018
Pearson BTEC Level 3 Award in Education and Training
2006
ESOL L3
2006
2002-2004
Personal Mentoring Post Qualifying Level
1999-2004
MA Sociology (Specialism in Young People and Education)
1999-2004