A Little About Me 

My Experience 

For many years I worked as a Registered General Nurse in Intensive Care (Adult and Paediatrics) in England and overseas. I then did an additional training as a Community and Hospital Registered Midwife in London and later in York. I worked clinically for many years before I studied and worked as a clinical research fellow with the Health Sciences Department, University of York and the NIHR as a research Midwife on clinical research studies including Cohort Studies and RCT’s. I then trained in the NHS on the NSCAP 6 year doctoral programme to become a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. For the next few years I worked in CAMHS and in NHS Gender Services. Now I work independently along side my teaching, supervision and research roles. I bring all this experience with me into my work with children and their families. 

I completed a 6 year training in  Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at the Northern School of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and since qualifying have have worked in the NHS within CAMHS and GIDS as well as in private practice. 

I am a tutor and seminar lead on the Doctoral and Masters Psychoanalytic programmes at NSCAP accredited by the University of Leeds and the University of Essex.  I am a Clinical and Service Supervisor. 

I am a qualified Clinical and Service Supervisor and offer supervision to organisations, groups/teams and individual clinicians and workers in health, education and social care. 

I write and edit the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) Magazine.