Experience

Independent Training Consultant

• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Owner

  • 2009 - Present

  Alison provides Welfare Benefits (& Reform!), Financial Capability and Employability training to the social and private housing sectors.Alison is a highly regarded and experienced welfare benefits and financial capability practitioner, who has worked very successfully in the affordable housing and benefits sector for the last 27 years.Now an independent training consultant specialising in training frontline staff and residents, Alison Markantonis has a credible track record in welfare benefits, financial capability and employability and has worked with many large housing and support organisations.



Private Practice and Clinical Practice

• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Psychotherapeutic Counsellor

  • Mar 2018 - Present

  I will work with you at your own pace; offering a calm, safe space for you to explore your worries no matter how big or small you think they may be, and have a special interest in complicated grief, abuse, trauma, PTSD, depression, relationships and anxiety. **I am one of the few therapists to have trained with Dr David Muss in the Rewind Trauma Technique and offer free treatment to Veterans.I am also a Hypnotherapist which can help you with coping strategies, guilt release and discovery, and an EFT Practitioner which is a gentle, highly effective way to transform any issues blocking emotional happiness or personal achievement. I also use Conscious Analytical Therapy for those that Hypnosis is not recommended for.



Circle Housing

• United Kingdom
• Real Estate
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Welfare Benefits Advisor

  • Apr 2016 - Present

  Just a couple of days per week keeps my toes firmly on the frontline and my practical experience current.



HQN

• Associate

  • 2009 - Present



Moat Homes Limited

• United Kingdom
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Head of Financial Inclusion

  • 2000 - 2009



Tunbridge Wells Borough Council

• United Kingdom
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Benefit Fraud Investigator

  • 1995 - 2000



Halifax

• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Customer Services Specialist

  • 1988 - 1992



Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Local Government Officer

  • 1983 - 1988