'Peace is your essential nature' ~ Ra Un Nefer Amen
Bio
I have been working with people in some sort of 'caring' capacity for over thirty years. I started out as a Childcare worker in my teens and have ended up here today, as a Psychotherapist. This career truly chose me and not the other way round. I was working in the Youth Offending Service in my late twenties getting increasingly disillusioned at the contradiction of my role. How can one be the helper and the enforcer at the same time?
In addition my philosophy was changing, it became clear that change in thought and behaviour had a much better outcome when the person was ‘ready’ or motivated to change rather then when one is compelled or ordered to, I know this truth from my own personal journey of healing… With that in mind, I sought out training that would reconcile my personal belief system and my professional practice... and that is how I initially became a Integrative Psychotherapist.
As a Clinician I gained experience in a variety of private, public and third party sectors, working in the field of mental health including the NHS before I found my way back into statutory services via Children’s Social Care. It was whilst working in Child Protection Services that the sharpening of my composition as a Clinician was crystallised. Over the years I gained more skills, therapeutic interventions/certificates and completed further training to become a Systemic Couples and Family Psychotherapist. With my extensive knowledge and experience I began to devise and deliver workshops/training to disseminate Systemic theory, concepts and other intervention tools for professionals in Children’s Social Care and other relevant professionals.
This later on, further developed into my organisational consulting work doing 'Diagnostic Projects' with Children Social Care departments throughout the U.K and various similar organisations in redesigning their workforces and ways of working with their client groups.
This is a career where you can never stop learning because the wonders of human behaviour and interaction is unlimited and there is so much more we have to learn and understand, however after all this time I firmly stand in the belief of how is the ‘wisdom’ applied to what one is doing, in my professional practice. Being knowledgeable is definitely an asset but it is incomplete without the application of wisdom.
And this is what I bring to the therapeutic space for you, experience, knowledge, compassion, a warm, gregarious presentation and wisdom. Core to my work is building a good therapeutic alliance and a trusting relationship whereas whoever I am working with is capable of moving towards their full potential. In our collaboration, as we work with the effects of whatever is challenging you at this point in time, in an empathic, creative, and compassionate manner we will move towards what is fundamental to emotional regulation, healing and developing a sense of contentment/peace.
I am born and bred in East London to Jamaican parents, my identity as a ‘Londoner’ is most evident whenever I travel around this world. I proudly embrace the many aspects of my multicultural identity.
In addition my philosophy was changing, it became clear that change in thought and behaviour had a much better outcome when the person was ‘ready’ or motivated to change rather then when one is compelled or ordered to, I know this truth from my own personal journey of healing… With that in mind, I sought out training that would reconcile my personal belief system and my professional practice... and that is how I initially became a Integrative Psychotherapist.
As a Clinician I gained experience in a variety of private, public and third party sectors, working in the field of mental health including the NHS before I found my way back into statutory services via Children’s Social Care. It was whilst working in Child Protection Services that the sharpening of my composition as a Clinician was crystallised. Over the years I gained more skills, therapeutic interventions/certificates and completed further training to become a Systemic Couples and Family Psychotherapist. With my extensive knowledge and experience I began to devise and deliver workshops/training to disseminate Systemic theory, concepts and other intervention tools for professionals in Children’s Social Care and other relevant professionals.
This later on, further developed into my organisational consulting work doing 'Diagnostic Projects' with Children Social Care departments throughout the U.K and various similar organisations in redesigning their workforces and ways of working with their client groups.
This is a career where you can never stop learning because the wonders of human behaviour and interaction is unlimited and there is so much more we have to learn and understand, however after all this time I firmly stand in the belief of how is the ‘wisdom’ applied to what one is doing, in my professional practice. Being knowledgeable is definitely an asset but it is incomplete without the application of wisdom.
And this is what I bring to the therapeutic space for you, experience, knowledge, compassion, a warm, gregarious presentation and wisdom. Core to my work is building a good therapeutic alliance and a trusting relationship whereas whoever I am working with is capable of moving towards their full potential. In our collaboration, as we work with the effects of whatever is challenging you at this point in time, in an empathic, creative, and compassionate manner we will move towards what is fundamental to emotional regulation, healing and developing a sense of contentment/peace.
I am born and bred in East London to Jamaican parents, my identity as a ‘Londoner’ is most evident whenever I travel around this world. I proudly embrace the many aspects of my multicultural identity.