Senior Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist (18-25 year olds: Complex Needs & Trauma)

• Aug 2023 - Present

North East Essex NHS (8-25 year olds, Personality Disorders and Complex Needs Trauma-informed Transformation). Developing a new service. North East Essex NHS (8-25 year olds, Personality Disorders and Complex Needs Trauma-informed Transformation). Developing a new service.

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist CAMHS Remote therapy

• Jan 2023 - Present

Assessment, Formulation, Intervention and Evaluation Assessment, Formulation, Intervention and Evaluation

Media duty of care Psychotherapist

• Oct 2020 - Present

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

• Apr 2019 - Present

Multidisciplinary pathway therapist

• Jul 2018 - Jan 2023

Assessment, Formulation, Therapeutic Intervention & Evaluation. Also worked for the Intensive Support Crisis Team within the Trust completing assessments in A&E and providing 2 week intensive therapeutic support packages Assessment, Formulation, Therapeutic Intervention & Evaluation. Also worked for the Intensive Support Crisis Team within the Trust completing assessments in A&E and providing 2 week intensive therapeutic support packages

Therapeutic facilitator of workshops

• Apr 2021 - May 2021

Facilitating workshops: the impact of covid on staff and organisation well-being: loss, Grief, Isolation and Building resilience Facilitating workshops: the impact of covid on staff and organisation well-being: loss, Grief, Isolation and Building resilience

Honorary adult psychoanalytic psychotherapist

• Sep 2018 - Oct 2020

Long-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy to patients Long-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy to patients

Therapist

• May 2020 - May 2020

The Leadership Coronicle Live Webinar Series: Cambridge Network: Guest speaker: PTSD, The Business Post Traumatic Syndrome. The Leadership Coronicle Live Webinar Series: Cambridge Network: Guest speaker: PTSD, The Business Post Traumatic Syndrome.

Therapist

• Aug 2016 - Sep 2018

Therapy for children, adolescents and parents. Approaches include: psychodynamic, CBT, Mentalisation. Therapy for children, adolescents and parents. Approaches include: psychodynamic, CBT, Mentalisation.

Honorary Child Psychotherapist

• Sep 2015 - Sep 2016

Assessment, Formulation, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Evaluation, Supervision Assessment, Formulation, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Evaluation, Supervision

Social Therapist

• Aug 2015 - Aug 2016

Adolescent Mental Health

• Feb 2014 - Apr 2016

Working with young people (age 12-18) and their families to support recovery.

Adult Mental Health - Personality Disorder

• Sep 2010 - Feb 2014

Interviewing and assessing service users with personality disorder.Administering, scoring, interpreting psychometric tests such as the HCR-20 and WAIS assessment. Treatment Care planning. Group therapy programme, planning and delivering OTT (Orientation to Therapy) sessions to patients. This 12 week programme is designed to provide newly admitted patients with the experience of being in a therapy group, knowledge about their personality disorder diagnosis, the therapeutic community model and to help them learn and develop skills necessary for giving and receiving feedback. Therapeutic community training: group psychotherapy theory and application of concepts (such as universality and instillation of hope) to large groups. I have seen how different psychological theories are applied to understand group processes and facilitate and impede therapeutic progress. Show less

Adult Mental Health - Forensic

• May 2008 - Sep 2010

High Secure Mental Health/Forensic Hospital. Worked on the 18-30 year olds ward, rehabilitation ward & the dangerous and severe personality disorder unit: individual and group support to patients with personality disorder, psychosis, complex presentations. Guidance and delivery of care. Implementing policies. relational security. Current affairs group. Reflective practice. Transference & offence parallel behaviour. Motivational interview training. High Secure Mental Health/Forensic Hospital. Worked on the 18-30 year olds ward, rehabilitation ward & the dangerous and severe personality disorder unit: individual and group support to patients with personality disorder, psychosis, complex presentations. Guidance and delivery of care. Implementing policies. relational security. Current affairs group. Reflective practice. Transference & offence parallel behaviour. Motivational interview training.

Honorary Observing Contract

• Jun 2008 - Oct 2008

Within the diagnostic service: observed detailed assessments of cognitive functions such as memory, language, perception, planning, reasoning and attention as well as behaviour in patients with suspected or confirmed brain pathology. Conditions such as amnesia, aphasia, dyspraxia, agnosia and dyscalculia were routinely assessed in the department. Within the diagnostic service: observed detailed assessments of cognitive functions such as memory, language, perception, planning, reasoning and attention as well as behaviour in patients with suspected or confirmed brain pathology. Conditions such as amnesia, aphasia, dyspraxia, agnosia and dyscalculia were routinely assessed in the department.

Residential and Day School - Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties

• May 2007 - May 2008

Supporting young people aged 11-17 with low self-esteem, anxiety, anti-social behaviour, obsessive compulsive disorder, autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, low mood. transition into adult life, becoming independent, achieving highest abilities academically, socially and emotionally. Therapeutic crisis intervention & life-space crisis interview. Supporting young people aged 11-17 with low self-esteem, anxiety, anti-social behaviour, obsessive compulsive disorder, autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, low mood. transition into adult life, becoming independent, achieving highest abilities academically, socially and emotionally. Therapeutic crisis intervention & life-space crisis interview.

Community & Residential

• May 2006 - May 2007

Elderly patients suffering with dementia Elderly patients suffering with dementia