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Professional clinical support

Steph offers a warm, collaborative space to explore real-life challenges, discuss casework or personal situations, and deepen understanding of complex presentations. Drawing on over twenty years of experience spanning mental health, psychology, leadership, training, supervision, business development, and governance, her supervisions provide both confidence and insight.

All sessions are held online worldwide via Google Meet and are payable on the day through PayPal, with bank details or invoicing available on request.

Qualifications

• MSc/ PGDip/ PGCert in Professional Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP accredited) – the University of Salford
• BSc (Hons) First Class/ Grosvenor Prize for Best Final Year Student – Leeds Beckett University
• ILM Level 7 in Coaching and Mentoring
• Graduate Certificate in Counselling
• Higher National Diploma – Distinction (The University of Salford)
• PRINCE2™ Project Management Foundation and Practitioner Practical Project Management (Directory of Social Change)

Experience

• Author, The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy (2014, JKP/Hachette)
• Accredited Psychotherapist (2013 – 2025)
• Associate and Neurodevelopmental Diagnostician, Axia-ASD (2023 – 2025)
• Founder of The Autistic Professional Network
• Director of MIND Manchester
• Director of Healthwatch Oldham
• Director of Community Networks 4 Manchester
• Deputy Manager and Lead Counsellor at Oldham Carers Centre
• Family Support Lead at Willow Wood Hospice
• Bereavement Counsellor for AGE UK
• Counsellor at the Manchester and Salford Counselling Service
• Board Member of Manchester City Council’s Domestic Violence Management Group
• Lancaster University’s Activism and Governance Research Committee
• Course author and lead trainer on Mindfulness, Introduction to CBT, Stress Reduction, Bereavement, Grief and Loss programmes delivered across the UK

Certificates and training

• Counter Transference and Object Relation Theory – The Horsforth Centre
• Level 7 CBT – The University of Salford
• Transactional Analysis – Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy
• ADHD in Women – Misunderstood and Misdiagnosed
• Single Session Therapy – College of Cognitive Behavioural Therapies
• Certificate in Couples Psychotherapy
• Certificate in Coaching
• Advanced clinical diagnostic training in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit Disorder and Dyspraxia
• Training in ADOS-2, ADI-r, AQ-50 and CAT-Q
• Institute of Leadership and Management – First Line Management Practical
• Project Management (Directory of Social Change)
• Understanding Autism – The Open University
• Understanding Adult ADHD – The Open University
• Certificate in Online Working – Online Therapy Institute
• Certificate in Panic Attacks
• Certificates in Bereavement, Grief and Loss (multiple providers including former ABSCo membership)
• Certificate in End of Life and Palliative Care (Macmillan Cancer Support)
• Qualified Reiki Practitioner (first degree and second degree)
• Diploma in Exploring Connection and Sexuality Through the Lens of the Soul (Love Serve Remember Foundation)
• Diploma in Reawakening The Mind of a Child: Loving Kindness (Zen Buddhism Course)
• Certificates in Safeguarding Adults/ Children
• Certificate in Equality and Diversity
• Certificate in Information Governance
• Certificate in Clinical Audit
• Certificate in Business Management

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