My experience and qualifications in a nutshell.
Core Qualifications
Deep Brain Reorienting (Level 1: DBR Introduction; Level 2: DBR for Attachment Shock and Wounding; Level 3: DBR for Dissociative and Other Complex Trauma Disorders)
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (Level 1: Affect Dysregulation, Survival Defences, and Traumatic memory (treatment of PTSD); Level 2: Emotional Processing, Meaning Making, and Attachment Repair (treatment of Complex PTSD))
NOTE: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® draws from somatic psychotherapies, neuroscience, attachment theory, and cognitive approaches, as well as from the Hakomi Method.
EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)
Certified Transactional Analyst in the field of Psychotherapy (CTA-P)
MSc in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy, Middlesex University, London
Clinical Diploma in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy, Metanoia, London
See complete list at Previous CPDs/Conference.
Professional Accreditation/Registration Bodies
UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Accredited Member and abide to the UKCP Code of Practice
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) - BACP Registered Member (MBACP) and abide to the BACP New Ethical Framework.
Professional Memberships
International Association of Relational Transactional Analysis (IARTA) (see "Relational TA Principles" that underpin my work)
International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP)
European Society for Trauma and Dissociation (ESTD)
I am also member of Metanoia Institute and am bound by the Metanoia clinical Codes of Ethics and Professional Practice.
Other information about my professional background
Prior to working full time as a psychotherapist, I worked in the Telecommunication domain for over 25 years, about 10 of which overlapped with my counselling/psychotherapy, specialisation training and running my psychotherapy practice.
An non-exhaustive list of qualifications I hold that is more closely related to my previous profession include:
Laurea in Scienze dell'Informazione (University of Pisa, Italy) (~MSc Computer Science)
MBA (Technology Management) (The Open University-Business School)
PRINCE2 Practitioner Certificate (BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT)
Associate's Certificate in Project Management (ESI / The George Washington University, London)
BCS International Diploma In Business Analysis (BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT)
Management of Portfolios (MoP) Practitioner (Axelos), TKA, London
Management of Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner (Axelos), TKA, London.
“Like a filing cabinet, the past is a resource of information for learning, but it is not a place to live.“ - Anonymous
“It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.” - D.W. Winnicott
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in” - Leonard Cohen
“Your trauma might or might not have started with you, but it could end with you” - unknown
“I am not defined by my scars, but by the incredible ability to heal.” - Lemn Sissay
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” - Rumi
“And suddenly you realize that silence Has the face of the things you've lost” - translation from “La voce del Silenzio”, Paolo Limiti and Mogol
“I go out looking for You and find You coming towards me.” - Yehudah Halevi
“It was a while before we came to realize that our place was the very house of difference rather the security of any one particular difference.” - Audre Lorde
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