“It has been the most enlightening experience of my life and has enabled me to explore and develop in more ways than I thought possible. I constantly tell friends or colleagues that they should have a hour with Steph, although I cannot explain how or what she does, all I can is say is I’m happier now than I have been for over 10 years.”

CLIENT, 2017

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate (PGDip/ PGCert) in Professional Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP accredited course) – The University of Salford

Graduate Certificate in Counselling – The University of Salford

BSc (Hons) – First Class degree including Grosvenor Prize Award for Best Final Year Student – Leeds Beckett University

Higher National Diploma – Distinction (The University of Salford)

Certificate in Couples Psychotherapy

Transactional Analysis (TA101) – Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy

Certificate in Coaching

Level 7 Certificate in CBT

Understanding Autism – The Open University

Psychology – The Open University

Certificate in Online Working – Online Therapy Institute

Counter-transference & Object Relation Theory – The Horsforth Centre

Certificate in Panic Attacks

Specialist in Trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Complex PTSD/ PTSD, Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD 1) also known as High Functioning Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome

Certificates in Bereavement, Grief and Loss

Safeguarding Adults

Safeguarding Children

Equality and Diversity

Essentials of Information Governance

Clinical Audit (Tameside & Glossop PCT)

End of Life and Palliative Care (Macmillan Cancer Support)

The Yoga of Relationships: Exploring Connection and Sexuality Through the Lens of the Soul (Love Serve Remember Foundation)

Reawakening The Mind of a Child: Loving Kindness (Zen Buddhism Course)

Reiki Holistic Practitioner (including First and Second Degree in Usui Reiki)

PRINCE2™ Project Management Foundation and Practitioner

Institute of Leadership and Management – Management/ Mentoring Training

EXPERIENCE:

Director of MIND Manchester Mental Health Charity

Director of Healthwatch Oldham (Public Health)

Deputy Manager & Lead Counsellor at Oldham Carers Centre (Adult Social Care Service)

Counselling Co-ordinator/ Family Support Lead at Willow Wood Hospice

Counsellor at the Manchester and Salford Counselling Service (MASCS)

Counsellor at AGE UK Tameside

Founder of the Autistic Professional Network

Featured in The Guardian, Psychotherapy & Politics International (Wiley), Therapy Today (BACP), Counselling Directory, The Counsellor’s Café Magazine, Psychreg, KEIA Wellbeing, Manchester Evening News, Medium, Sounds Magazine.

Author of book on autism, mental health and therapy due for publication Autumn 2023 with Jessica Kingsley Publishing

Decades of experience within project and change management, leadership, governance, supervision and mentoring

Course Author and Lead Trainer on Mindfulness, Introduction to CBT, Stress Reduction, Bereavement, Grief and Loss programmes delivered across the UK

Director of Community Network 4 Manchester (CN4M)

Member of the Association of Bereavement Service Co-ordinators (ABSCo)

Board Member on Domestic Abuse Management Group – Manchester City Council

ASSURANCES:

Accredited Member of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society

Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Approved by Accredited Register Scheme (Professional Standard Authority)

Member of the National Autistic Society

Enhanced DBS

Fully insured through Holistic Insurance

Registered with the Information Commissioners Office and GDPR compliant

I work within the ethical frameworks of both my membership organisations and am bound by their professional conduct procedures

Trauma-informed practice

Fully supervised by senior clinical practitioner

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

Each year I am required to complete a minimum of 30hrs CPD as a condition of my professional membership, a figure which I regularly exceed.

Like everyone I am flawed, imperfect and human (thank goodness!) and in order to feel as clear and resolved as possible for the health of my practice I choose to work on myself through study, personal development, meditation and clinical supervision.

Over the years I have engaged in a great deal of personal therapy and passionately believe that a therapist’s lived experience should be regarded as the most important item in their professional toolbox. 

I continue to write and campaign on this topic. 

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