ABOUT ME
I have one child and a lovely, loving family whom I adore. My passion is helping people. I personally feel a real satisfaction from supporting someone who is in need, working with them side by side to overcome any obstacles that they might be faced with, especially when they feel they can’t handle the situation or feel that their problem is unmanageable.
I went to a catholic convent girls school, and when I left school I initially did not know where my future lay. I looked into more studies and enrolled in text production course, and also continued to seek employment in order to gain experience and knowledge. I gained experience, towards working as part of a team, working on using my initiative, dealing all different types of customers. I gained an NEBS and NEBS Diploma in management and learned important skills around team building, conflict, budgets, processes, time management, benchmarking, planning, strategic processes, reviewing quality systems and controlling cost.
However, I still wanted to continue learning and decided I wanted to understand the concepts and theory of psychology. I studied for my psychology degree part time for four and half years whilst working full time in Tower Hamlets Family Intervention Services where I gained experience with hard-to-reach families with multi-complex needs.
Whilst working and studying I also decided to work voluntarily in victim support. My aim was to gain experience and knowledge in understanding the client problems whilst having the opportunity of helping people who had been a victim of crime. From there I knew where I wanted to go. I trained in victim support for women, including for victims of rape and other traumatic experiences, and began offering one to one counselling. My journey began to unfold once I knew specifically what I wanted to do, who I wanted to become and how I would progress. I continued to offer voluntary counselling sessions for the next three years.
Soon after, I broadened my career prospects and became a family practitioner. Through this work I have continued to grow, studying new therapies and techniques. Studying has also given me the aspirations to develop and grow, pushing myself further with bigger challenges to get across that next milestone.
I am an accredited Neuro Linguistic (NLP), Time Line and hypnosis practitioner with a postgraduate degree in CBT/ IAPT (Improving Accessing Psychological Therapy) with extensive experience working with children and young people. I have worked with victims of gang violence and support families in Accident and Emergency, acting as a point of contact between the family and the services, providing advice and practical support.