Hello I’m Sandy…

I’m a mother of four grown up children and a grandmother to six young grand children. I’m an outdoorsy person who loves being out walking or exploring the outdoors.

My career is my passion and have worked in the NHS for 15 years & have volunteered as a Samaritan in my spare time, I am currently supporting young people with mental health difficulties in a local high school, I get a great deal of satisfaction helping people reach their potential and turn their lives around.

qualifications

Bsc (Hons) Psychology and Counselling (First Class Honours)
Diploma in Theory and Practice of Person Centred Counselling.
Diploma in Narrative Therapy
Post Graduate Solution Focussed Therapy
Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (Manchester University)
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing)

Training

Responding to Self‐Injury
Level 3 Safeguarding
Female Genital Mutilation
Dissociate Disorders
Mental Health Capacity Act
Bereavement following Suicide
Clinical Supervision
Mental Toughness / Resilience Training
ADHD Awareness
Online Counselling for Adolescents
Relate Institute‐Counselling Young People
Gender Variant Children and Trans Adolescents
Domestic Abuse Partnership‐ responding to Domestic Abuse

Key Experience

15 years CAMHS Adolescent Mental health Therapist (NHS)
Secondary School Counsellor
Relate ‐ Adolescent Therapist

Special Interest

Adolescent Mental Health
Self‐Injury
Bereavement following Suicide.