I have always been interested in people, leading me to studying Psychology at the age of 16 at the school of Psychology & Neuroscience at University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Here I obtained a BPS recognised BSc (Hons)* during which I studied the foundations of modern Psychology. During my degree (amongst other things) I studied: Developmental Psychology - covering the early stages of life; How people think, and how this links to behaviour; Neurobiology - the nervous system and the brain; Social behaviours of groups and crowds; Neuro-divergent conditions including Autism and Dyspraxia and Perception - how the brain interprets information that it receives from the world.

During this time, I became interested in understanding more about how we see the world. I received an award to carry out experiments in Perception, culminating in an MSc & PhD in Psychology, and then worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for 5 years. This work gave me a strong grounding in how people construct perceptual meaning from limited information, a principle that can also be found in therapeutic work.

Please note my PhD training qualifies me to be a Research Psychologist which is not the same as a Clinical Psychologist training route, it is an academic training route. You can read more about the different training routes undertaken by Psychologists here. Following this work I then took up roles with the Scottish Government and NHS.

At this point in my life, I began personal therapy after realising I had significant issues I needed to work through, and found it incredibly beneficial. I would be lying if I was to say it was easy though. Therapy has been the single most difficult thing I have gone through, yet it has changed my life in the most positive way. Due to the benefit I was seeing for myself, I wanted to be able to work therapeutically with others.

In 2017 I began studying towards a COSCA qualification in Counselling skills at Murray’s Initiative where I was selected to become a volunteer Counsellor. I used many of the skills learnt as a Counsellor to offer individual and group support as a Recovery Practitioner within The Mungo Foundation. In 2020, I began studying a UKCP Level 7 Masters degree in Psychotherapy at the BCPC in Bath and am able to offer my skills, knowledge and experience at a high value rate as a trainee in the 5th year of their programme. In 2020/21 I was a counsellor with HELP Counselling in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, working with people living with conditions such as anxiety and depression.

I have since opened my own practice in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

*The course linked is the current equivalent ant the specific content is unlikely to be exactly the same but it is very similar

My qualifications are:

UKCP Trainee on MA Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapy (now in final year of training)
Phd in Experimental Psychology (Research, non-clinical)
MSc Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology
BSc (Hons) Psychology
COSCA/Advanced alcohol recovery training/Motivational interviewing/Suicide awareness

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