Academic qualifications:
- Masters Degree in Secondary Education at the University of Hamburg
Continuing Professional Development:
mindfulness:
- Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy with Dr Patrizia Collard, Enter Mindfulness, London 2010
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction in Mind-Body Medicine with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli, Salzburg, Austria 2012
- Compassion Focused Therapy for Eating Disorders with Dr Ken Goss, 2012, York
- Masterclass Inquiry 2013 Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor University and in 2019 at Oxford Mindfulness centre, University of Oxford
- Supervisor of Mindfulness Teachers training 2013 CMRP in Bangor
- Masterclass Mindfulness Based Interventions-Teaching Assessment Criteria, Bangor, 2013
- Youth mindfulness kids programme for early years, 2018
- Youth mindfulness SOMA (Social Connection, Openness to enjoyment, Meaning & Purpose, & Action). programme for teenagers and young people, 2019
- Counselling with individuals, couples, families and young children
- Postgraduate Diploma in Relationship Therapy, Systemic Pathway, University of Hull,
- Certificate in in Marital and Couple Counselling, Relate
- Hakomi-body centred psychotherapy 1981 (European Hakomi Institute, Heidelberg)
- Mindfulness in the context of couple/family counselling, Relate
- Appreciative Inquiry, Relate
- Solution Focused Brief Therapy with the Institute of Family Therapy
- Using CMM’s (Coordinate Management of Meaning) Heuristics in Making Better Social Worlds with its founder Barnett Pearce
- Domestic Violence: Individual Structured Interviewing
- Domestic Violence/Abuse Assessment and Intervention with Couples
- Domestic Violence/Abuse Awareness and Safety
- Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse Part I and II
- Mental Health and Couple Counselling
- Couples and Affairs
- creative ways of working with secondary school children (11-14)
- The impact of Bereavement on children and young people
- Enhanced DBS checked 2018
- Advanced/Specialist /level 2 safeguarding training at Oxfordshire County Council, 2018
- creative ways of working with secondary school children (11-14)
Yoga and Pilates
- Senior teacher with the yoga alliance UK
- Senior teacher in Pilates training in Mat Based and Studio Equipment Level 3 Diploma
- Additional training in: Pilates on the Ball, Pilates in the gym, Spine Lecture1 and 2, magic circle, Anatomy of the Pelvis, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Back and Core Stability, Neck and shoulder Anatomy
- Certificate in Exercise for the Management of Low Back pain (Premier training)
- Regular attendance of Feldenkrais workshops (Awareness through movement)
