I am a 43-year-old Accredited Psychotherapist from California with experience in a variety of work settings with clients ranging from general to severe difficulties. I apply an integrative approach using psychoanalytic and CBT skills and will adapt my approach accordingly using a relational model that suits the client’s individual needs. My clients have ranged from vulnerable children and adults acquiring attention for extreme behavioral problems, to those looking for lifestyle and well-being maintenance or more general counseling. I have worked extensively with anxiety and depression, mood regulation, distress tolerance, and attachment difficulties. My counseling practice serves to oversee their emotional and psychological well-being through a nurturing and supportive role. Having maintained a private practice and working in recovery and social services, I understand the importance of organization and maintaining healthy relationships with clear boundaries. I administer referrals, organize funding requests, and set up assessments in the step care process of an individual’s needs. Employment History: 2021-2025 Private Practice April 2020 – 2021 INNOVATE SERVICES Edge of Care unit (Medway Council) Therapeutic Parent Practitioner and Counselling Support •Talking Therapy: A chance for them to express their concerns and feel supported and validated empathically •Psychodynamic relational modelling and challenging •Bi-weekly Anxiety and Depression inventory (PHQ9/GAD7) to monitor emotional health and resilience levels •CBT skills on effective communication and thought processing management + take-home toolkit (“how you think determines how you feel and how you behave”) •Supporting complex mental health difficulties and co-morbid conditions including depression, anxiety, trauma, conduct disorder, borderline traits, narcissistic personality traits, ADHD, memory loss, attachment disorder, self-harm •Mindfulness based activities •Distress Tolerance/Emotional Dysregulation management •Needs List: description on individual’s needs to facilitate understanding and enable support •Therapeutic Parenting: PACE model /Role Play/Resilience testing/communication dialogue emphasising tone and rhythm •Mediation Sessions- between parents and adolescents who are LAC children (looked after children) by the local authority •Mediation Sessions – couples •Asserting professional opinion to strategy and review meetings •Setting up Psychiatric Assessments and relevant forms undertaken by child, parent, their social community, and education system •General administration tasks: Word, Excel, note taking, clinician liaising, research •Safeguarding adults and adolescents •Supporting Parents through anxieties around social services intervention •Creating a step care plan for adolescents in foster care to return to their families 09/2016-present FLEXI-POP-INS LIMITED Counselling Child Service Providers to • Safeguard effectively • Oversee the emotional welfare for children and adolescents • Implement clear boundaries and consequences • Communicate effectively with families about their children • Develop active listening skills to help regulate and mediate the child’s daily routine • Develop awareness to notice a child or parent’s non-verbal communication in order to help assist with the well-being for each family • Recognise the limitations and strengths with an individuals’ child development • Focus on tailoring activities towards the child’s individual strengths • Organise activity/routine planning 09/2016-Present Private Practice Psychotherapist/Counsellor Plus Guidance Website: Online Counselling (50-minute session with clients between ages 18-40) PRIVATE PRACTICE: • Anxiety • Abandonment Issues • Attachment Issues • Dissociative issues • Depression • Body dysmorphia • Sexual abuse • Trauma • Substance misuse • General anxiety • Panic and stress • Feelings isolation • Fluctuation-highs and lows • Relational confusion • Boundary dysfunction • Identity confusion • LGBTQ Personality Disorders -BPD/ NPD Agencies: 10/ 2015-August 2016 WESTMINSTER DRUG PROJECT • Talking therapy and listening support for client’s emotional and mental states whilst they were undergoing rehabilitation forsubstance misuse • Safeguarding Reports • Helped clients identify patterns with their day to day routine and assisted routine restructuring (including nutrition) • Identified unhelpful attachments and helped clients form new positive attachments • Employed psychoanalytic techniques for clients who were able and ready to reflect on their history • Helped clients identify forms of abuse • Formed clear boundaries in my relationships with clients teaching them to form boundaries in their environment • Monitored anxiety levels and psychological dissociations that contributed to more misuse • Empowered clients to incorporate self-help techniques outside of the therapy room going forward 01/2014-June 2015 LIFELINE HACKNEY • Offered clients listening support and talking therapy • Helped clients understand how they view their sense of self through the Sand Box technique (Art Therapy) • Behaviour modification (introduced CBT articles on self-esteem) helping clients recognise core beliefs that cause their mental and emotional state to spiral • Practised mindfulness techniques for clients to use during moments of anxiety • Helped clients understand their role of personal responsibility • Used psychodynamic techniques to interpret transferences and defences • Used psychoanalytic techniques to assist the client in understanding how their difficulties came to be 04/2014-August2014 TURNING POINT-Transport House • Worked creatively with clients using art therapy (Brick Wall Method, Music & Mindfulness) • Active listening using the Blank Slate method so clients could feel heard without any external influencing from therapist • Helped clients understand the psychological effects playing on their psyche due to the use of substances • Role Play Method • Re-Parenting method • Alcohol and drug awareness training