About

I am a Lecturer and Art Therapist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and a full member of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT).

In addition to working within Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) teams as an Art Therapist, I also have worked as part of specialist teams. These have included teams training Medics, Midwives Health visitors and school staff in young people's mental health. I am a lecturer in Therapeutic Arts across both postgraduate and undergraduate programmes. 

My clinical work and experience have varied though there has been a significant focus upon sexual trauma and relational difficulties. I have worked within education and healthcare provisions providing therapy to individuals, family groups, and in consultation for professionals supporting young people.

Prior to this, I have worked within acute adult psychiatry and rehabilitation, social enterprise organisations and community arts projects.

Teaching responsibilities

Module Leadership

• Clinical Placement One 7TA500 (Level 7)

Modules I teach on

• Working Creatively in groups 4TA507 (Level 4)
• The Creative Self 4TA506 (Level 4)
• Working Creatively on Placement 6TA504 (Level 6)
• Arts Therapies Theory and Research in Relation to Practice 1 7TA504 (Level 7)
• Arts Therapies Theory and Research in Relation to Practice 2 7TA505 (Level 7)
• Clinical Placement 7TA500 (Level 7)
• Art Therapy Experiential Group 7TA502 (Level 7)

Research Supervision

• Independent Scholarship 7TA989

Professional interests

• Androgogy in Higher Education
• Inductive Teaching Methods in group learning
• Psychodynamic Formulation
• Working with groups
• Complex Trauma
• Psychoanalytic Anthropology
• The Social Unconscious

Research interests

• Art-Based Research
• Autoethnography
• Art and Identity 
• Art Psychotherapy Training

Membership of professional bodies

• HCPC registered Art Therapist
• Member British Association of Art Therapists 
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Qualifications

• MA Art Therapy
• BA (Hons) Creative Expressive Therapies
• PG Cert in Higher Education