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Continuing Professional Development

Here's where I share the learning I've recently completed.  I choose and complete learning activities from different relevant organisations. This helps to challenge the way I work and further develop and inform my understanding of different lived experiences. 

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"Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi

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I completed the following learning activities - these include, for example: modules, workshops, lectures:

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  • Understanding Autism

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  • Autism, stress and anxiety 

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  • Autism: supporting families

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  • Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum

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  • Autism and Communication

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  • Autism and Sensory Experience

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  • GDPR Compliance in Private Practice​​​

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  • Autism and SPELL in Higher Education​

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  • ​From Crisis to Freedom ​- Prof Emmy Van Deurzen ​

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  • 'Normal' and 'abnormal' eating in a world of plentiful food

  • Maggie Turp

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  • Queer therapy: where we've come from and where we're going

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  • National Counsellors Day Conference

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  • Befriending your Anxiety - an Existential perspective

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  • Doing practitioner research: a case study in the use of subjectivity

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  • An investigation into UK-based transgender clients' experience of counselling

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  • How to be at ease with your body

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  • A conversation with Dr Elinor Greenberg - About Narcissism, Borderline and Schizoid Disorders

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  • Reflective Journalling for self-awareness and Personal Development

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  • Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) Dysmorphophobia

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  • Taking 'Risks' in Therapy

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  • Shame

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  • Public speaking course workshop

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  • Acceptance and Commitment therapy

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  • Working with Interpreters

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  • Supporting Returners from Maternity Leave Psychotherapeutically

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  • Building relational depth with traumatised clients

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  • Applying Attachment Theory and Research on Day-to-Day Counselling Practice

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  • Disability and therapy: Common Myths​​​

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  • Endings in Counselling

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  • 5 Practical Trauma-Informed Interventions for Therapists.​

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  • Rising from existential crisis workshop with Emmy van Deurzen

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  • ​Trauma Informed Practice

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  • Working Therapeutically with trans (incl non-binary people: What does 'good' look like?

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  • How trauma teaches you to tolerate disrespect (and how to unlearn it)

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  • Me and White Supremacy: How to recognise your privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World

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  • An opportunity- threat model of rupture and repair in personal and therapeutic relationships

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  • A whole-service systems approach to emotion regulation

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  • Befriending your anxiety - an existential perspective

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  • Reflections of self: navigating body image disorders with Body Image Therapy

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  • Lived Experience of Muslim Women to the recent rise of islamophobia - a participatory Action Research by Dr Nahid Nasrat 

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  • The Power and Importance of Liberation Psychology in Modern Life by Dr Nahid Nasrat

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  • Death Anxiety as a Transdiagnostic Target: Innovations in Mental Health Treatment

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  • An Evening with Emmy van Deuzen

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