grb training - My background

grb training

training, coaching and therapy

My background

Since completing my degree and some travelling in 1995, I have worked in Supported Housing, as a Project Worker, Manager and Trainer.

In this work I have helped to support homeless teenagers and people with a wide range of mental health problems: anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, panic attacks, OCD, schizophrenia, PTSD, 'Personality Disorders'.

I have drawn on many approaches, including practical good-sense, and elements from:

Rogerian counselling
Person-Centred-Planning
Befriending
Coaching and NLP
The Recovery Model
Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction
Motivational Interviewing
Transactional Analysis
Psychodynamic models
Cognitive- and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, and more.

In addition to my current work as a Trainer, Coach and Therapist, I have been co-facilitating Music and Drumming Workshops for people with learning difficulties since 2006.

Since 2007 I have worked as a befriender for people in suicidal crisis.

For many years I was a carer for my partner who suffered from ME (fully recovered since 2004). It is this experience that informed my interest in working with physical health problems, and led to me learning about the Lightning Process^TM, and training with Phil Parker.

My qualifications:

Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy, NLP and Life Coaching from the Phil Parker Training Institute.
Member of the British Institute of Hypnotherapy.
Licensed Practitioner of the Phil Parker Lightning Process^TM.
Certificates in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Stress Management, Multimodal Therapy and Problem-Focused Therapy from the Centre for Stress Management, Bromley.
Advanced Practitioner of Andrew Austin's Integral Eye Movement Technique (IEMT) -- often used effectively in the treatment of panics, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and other emotional issues.
Trained by Andrew Austin in the Core Transformation Process
Diploma in Housing and Homelessness.
Honours Degree in History and Politics.