
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.

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