I am an experienced, dual-trained practitioner who qualified and practised as a therapist for a number of years before undertaking further training in coaching and coach-supervision. Elsewhere on these pages, I explain how I combine my coaching and therapeutic skills and experience in a single approach to enabling personal change.
I hold a MA (with distinction) in Coaching and Mentoring Practice and a Professional Certificate of Advanced Study in Coaching Supervision, both from Oxford Brookes Business School. I am a Registered, Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and adhere to the BACP code of ethics. I am also a member of BACP’s Coaching Division.
Between 2007 and 2020, I worked as a lecturer, senior lecturer, Counselling for Depression (CfD) trainer, course lead and subject co-director in the department of Counselling at York St John University.
Prior to becoming a therapist, coach and educator, I worked in a variety of manual occupations, including steel fabrication, labouring, landscape gardening and greengrocery. I also studied politics, philosophy and economics at York University, and worked as a volunteer adviser for the Citizens’ Advice Bureau.
Like many others, I arrived in the City of York as an undergraduate and have never left.
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