My Qualifications
Pioneers Of Integrative Training Since 1978
2006 - 2012 Training in Integrative Psychotherapy at the Minster Centre in London (UK)
The Minster Centre is a well established, BACP regulated training organisation for integrative psychotherapy and counselling.
I completed the training with an MA (accredited by Middlesex University), the 'Advanced Diploma Integrative Psychotherapy' and a diploma in integrative counselling.
The European Association for Psychotherapy
Integrative Work
Integrative Psychotherapy uses tools and insights from many different psychotherapeutic schools to understand what is going on in your life.
My basic orientation is analytic but I am also trained to work humanistically and use interventions from body work as well as CBT. Most recently, I have integrated mindfulness into my work.
Work Experience
- Since 2015 Private Practice in Hannover-Kleefeld
As part of my training I worked for several counselling services:
- 2011 - 2013 Counsellor at the Metro Centre (London):
LGBT Counselling Service, Greenwich (London)
- 2011 - 2013 Counsellor at Mapesbury Clinic, Queen's Park (London)
A counselling service for refugees and people in exile.
- 2009 - 2011 Counsellor at Brent Mind Counselling Service (London)
A counselling service that offered counselling to people referred by local GP practices (medical practices).
I have a degree in Christian Theology and have offered pastoral & spiritual care to people in hospital settings (and communities), for example:
2009 - 2017 Mental Health Chaplain at Highgate Mental Health Centre (NHS) as part of a multi -faith team, U.K.
2018 - 2022 Mental Health Chaplain & Hospital Chaplain in the Hannover Region, Germany
Having worked as a hospital chaplain, employed by the National Health Service (NHS) in the U.K., as part of a multi-faith team), I am very experienced working with bereavement and loss.
I have been involved in inter - faith work for many years. These experiences inform my psychotherapeutic work. I am aware that religion can be a source of comfort and strength as well as a tool of oppression. Religion can be used to silence and abuse people. We are seeing that on a daily basis. I am bearing the positive and the negative side of religion/ faith in mind when working therapeutically.
In life spirituality can be a source of comfort and strength but it can also be used to avoid the painful work of dealing with difficult experiences. Ultimately that is not helpful and I would not encourage you to do that.
I will not impose my world view onto you but walk alongside you.