Qualifications and professional training

Training that supports careful, grounded practice

Grounded in relational psychotherapy, trauma-informed practice, and body-aware work.

Below is an overview of my qualifications, professional training, and ongoing development in psychotherapy, trauma-focused work, Deep Brain Reorienting, and ILF neurofeedback.

If you are reading this as a prospective client, you do not need to make sense of every acronym.

What matters most is that the work is ethically grounded, carefully held, and informed by substantial specialist training.


Why this matters

Qualifications and training are only one part of good therapy, but they do matter.

The aim is not to collect methods for their own sake, but to have enough depth, flexibility, and clinical grounding to work well with a range of experiences.

Training matters because it supports clinical judgement, ethical practice, and careful pacing, especially when working with trauma, shutdown, dissociation, relational patterns, and nervous-system responses.


Core psychotherapy qualifications

These qualifications provide the relational and psychotherapeutic foundation of my work.


Specialist trauma and body-aware trainings

These trainings support a more integrated, body-aware, and trauma-informed way of working.

Deep Brain Reorienting

  • Level 1: DBR Introduction

  • Level 2: DBR for Attachment Shock and Wounding

  • Level 3: DBR for Dissociative and Other Complex Trauma Disorders

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

  • Level 1: Affect Dysregulation, Survival Defences, and Traumatic Memory

  • Level 2: Emotional Processing, Meaning Making, and Attachment Repair

EMDR

  • Parts 1–3


Neurofeedback training

My neurofeedback training supports my work with nervous-system regulation, especially where sleep, overwhelm, shutdown, reactivity, brain fog, attention, or emotional regulation are part of the clinical picture.

ILF neurofeedback and frequency-based neurofeedback

  • Neurofeedback Basic Course

  • Neurofeedback for ADHD

  • Frequency Band Training


Clinical supervision and group work

My supervision and group training support my work with therapists, supervisees, and reflective clinical groups.


Current further training and professional development

Good practice is not static. Ongoing development helps keep the work reflective, current, and clinically accountable.

Current areas of further development include:

  • ADEPT — Advanced Education in Psychedelic Therapy, a two-year professional training programme with the OPEN Foundation, beginning in September 2026

  • working towards DBR-P Approved Practitioner status

  • working towards Othmer Method Certification in ILF neurofeedback

  • further postgraduate study in clinical psychology

  • ongoing continuing professional development in psychotherapy, trauma, supervision, and nervous-system-informed practice


Other training and CPD

Alongside my core professional training, I continue to undertake further study and continuing professional development across psychotherapy, trauma, relational practice, neurodiversity, supervision and related areas.

The sections below provide a chronological record of this additional training and professional development.

Open a year to view the training completed or undertaken during that period.