I am registered with the governing body (BACP) British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists.

I am also registered with The SSSC Scottish Social Services Council and have been since 2011.

I have completed a COSCA approved training course at the University of Aberdeen Post Graduate Diploma in Person-Centred Counselling and will undertake the Specialist Certificate Working with Children and Young People in August 2022.

I have over 25 years experience in working with children, young people and adults. In this time I have 22 years of working with children and young people who have been looked after by the local authority. I have 15 years experience of working with children and their families in a charity that provided abuse and trauma recovery. This was in my social work role.

I have been a volunteer counsellor with ACIS since 2019

I have been very active within further education gaining many qualifications.

Nursing qualification 

HNC in Social Care 

Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Social Studies, Diploma Social Work 

Graduate certificate in Child Care and Protection 

Graduate Certificate Practice Learning (Social Services) 

Post Graduate Diploma in Person Centred Counselling 

"When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows not the flower" - Alexander Den Heyer