Qualifications and Training
Compassionate Inquiry certified practitioner
Trainers: Dr Gabor Maté, Sat Dharam Kaur and others.
Company: Compassionate Inquiry
Qualification: certified compassionate inquiry practitioner
12 month training programme followed by 6 month mentorship programme followed by 12 month internship
Non-violent communication
Trainers: Gesine Schrader
Company: Seeds of Peace
Level 1 NVC
Psychedelics and Compassionate Inquiry
Trainers: Dr Gabor Maté and others.
Company: Kiyumi and CI
Psychedelics in Therapy: MDMA, Psilocybin, Ketamine, Micro-Dosing
Trainers: various
Company: PESI / Psychotherapy Networker
Understanding and Working with Complex Traumatic Dissociation
Trainers: Melanie Goodwin and Kathryn Livingston, First Person Plural; Remy Aquarone, Analytical Psychotherapist, Pottergate Centre for Dissociation and Trauma; Dr Renee Marks, BICTD; Sue Richardson
Company: ESTD UK
Personality Disorders Certification Training: Advanced Diagnosis, Treatment & Management
Trainers: Gregory W. Lester Ph.D.
Company: PESI UK
Qualification: Certified Provider Personality Disorder Treatment
Accredited by: Evergreen Certification
Counselling and Psychiatry Workshop
Psychiatry and Mental Health: A workshop for counsellors and psychotherapists.
A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs.
Living Well and Dying Well: Working therapeutically with an ageing population.
The Power Threat Meaning Framework: An alternative to psychiatric diagnosis.
Trainers: Professor Mary Boyle, Rachel Freeth, Helen Kewell and Joanna Moncrieff.
Company: PCCS Books
Yoga - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Y-CBT)
Trainer: Dr Manjit Kaur Khalsa and Julie Greiner Ferris
Company: Y-CBT
Qualification: Yoga-Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Intro, Level 1 & Level 2)
Remote, live training (during Covid-19)
Emotional Freedom Techniques : Advanced (EFT)
Trainer: Tania Prince
Company: Life Beyond Limits
Qualification: Level 3 Advanced Accredited Practitioner
Accredited by: EFT International
Returning to Ourselves: The Wisdom of Trauma
Trainers: Gabor Maté and Betsy Polatin
Company: Science and Non Duality (SAND)
Remote, live training (during Covid-19)
Mental Capacity Act
Company: Social Care Institute for Excellence
Remote training (during Covid-19)
Sensorimotor EMDR
Trainer: Arthur O'Malley
Company: EMDR West Midlands
How to work with the patterns that sustain depression
Trainer: Ruth M. Buczynski, PhD with Bessel van der Kolk; Pat Ogden; Dan Siegel; Richard Schwartz
Company: National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine
Somatic Experiencing Intro
Trainer: Giselle Genillard
Company: SOS Interntionale
Attachment and Trauma -
Relationships, consciousness and the developing self
Speakers: Stephen Porges, Daniel Brown, Pat Ogden, Peter Fonagy, Marco Iacoboni, Orit Badouk Epstein, Bruce Ecker, Ruth Lanius, Onno van der Hart
Company: ISC International
Trauma and Resilience
Trainer: Dr Gabor Maté
Company: We Coproduce / Trauma Matters
Child Sexual Abuse: Hope for Healing
Trainer: Carolyn Spring
Company: PODS
Yoga and meditation for brain injury
Love Your Brain
Company: Yoga International
Working with Dissociation in clinical practice
Trainer: Carolyn Spring
Company: PODS
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Trainers: Joshua I Smith and Barbara Lerch
Company: EMDR Centre London
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
Trainer: Tania Prince
Company: Life Beyond Limits
Qualification: Level 1 and Level 2 Practitioner
Accredited by: EFT International
Refugees and War Trauma
Trainer: Dr Peter Levine
Company: SOS Internationale and Amnesty International
Para Yoga Nidra: immersion in enlightened sleep
Trainer: Rod Stryker
Company: Yoga International
Healing the traumatized mind, brain and body - effective evidence based interventions
Trainer: Dr Bessel van der Kolk
Company: The Centre for Child Mental Health
Child Psychology
New Skills Academy - online course
Qualification: Level 3 Diploma
Yoga as Medicine
Trainer: Dr Timothy McCall
Company: The Minded Institute
Suicide intervention / suicide first aid
Trainer: Penny Strickett
Company: Living Works
Anatomy and physiology
Company: Ayurveda Pura
Qualification: Level 3 Diploma
Transforming trauma with yoga for children and young people
Trainer: Lucy Arnsby-Wilson
Company: Creative Calm Yoga and Chrysalis Kids
Ayurveda diet and lifestyle consultant
Trainer: Dr Deepa Apte
Company: Ayurveda Pura
Qualification: Diploma
Yoga for eating disorders and emotional trauma
Trainer: Lisa Kaley-Isley
Company: Yoga Campus
Indian Head Massage
Trainer: Nikki Wolf
Company: Therapy Training School
Qualification: Diploma
Origins of alignment
Trainer: Donna Farhi
CPD: 5 day intensive
Yoga Therapy Diploma
(British Council for Yoga Therapy / International Association of Yoga Therapists)
Trainers: Sylvia Barrington, Dr Jane Fitzgerald, Chris Barrington, Ruth Boaler
Company: Dru Yoga
2016 Yoga therapy for mental health
2015 Yoga therapy for serious degenerative disease
2015 Yoga therapy for cancer and auto immune disorders
2015 Yoga therapy for coronary care
2015 Yoga therapy for the respiratory system
2015 Yoga therapy for the gastric intestinal system
2015 Yoga therapy for the neuro-endocrine system
2015 Yoga therapy for spinal conditions
2014 Yoga therapy for back pain
2014 Yoga therapy for structural dysfunction
Trauma and the Body: Dissociation and Somatisation
Trainer: Carolyn Spring
Company: Positive Outcomes for Dissociative Survivors / PODS
Yoga anatomy
Trainer: Dr Ray Long
10 CPD points
Pregnancy and postnatal yoga
Trainer: Janine Hurley
Company: Yoga Campus
Qualification: Diploma
Trauma: Treatment, Tendencies and Teaching
Trainers: Simon Low, Eija Tervonen, Ralf Marzen, Maja Skolimowska, Gary Carter
Company: Yoga Academy
Yoga Teacher Training
Trainers: Allie Hill and Toni Roberts
Company: Yoga Haven
Qualification: 200 hour yoga teacher, Yoga Alliance
Short courses, workshops and other training
2022 Feminine Archetypes - Psychedelics Society, Gaia Harvey Jackson
2020 Humanual Basics - SAND, Betsy Polatin
2020 Yoga Therapy for Pain - Headaches - Yoga Campus / American Viniyoga Institute, Gary Kraftsow
2020 Yoga Therapy for Pain - Fibromyalgia - Yoga Campus / American Viniyoga Institute, Gary Kraftsow
2020 Yoga Therapy for Pain - Structural Neck / Shoulder Pain - Yoga Campus / American Viniyoga Institute, Gary Kraftsow
2020 Racialised Trauma - Cultural Somatics Training and Institute, Resmaa Menakem
2019 Yoga for Resilience - Inhale, Toni Roberts
2018 I am Woman - The Life Centre, Andrea Everingham
2017 Earth Mandala pranams - Yoga Campus, Shiva Rea
2017 Scaravelli Yoga / somatic approach - Meriel Gross
2017 Ayurvedic Tongue Diagnosis - Ayurveda Pura Deepa Apte
2015 Earth Mandala Pranams - Yoga Campus, Shiva Rea
2015 Yogic mindfulness - AG and Indra Mohan
2015 Yoga for women's health - Indra Mohan
2015 Vipassana Meditation 10 day silent meditation course (100 hours meditation)
2015 Balance / Harmony: Yin and Yang Yoga - Manjunaga
2014 Yin and Yang Yoga - Simon Low
2014 Astanga Yoga - Kino MacGregor (11 hours)
2014 Hips and Hamstrings - Claire Missingham (6 hours / CPD Points)
2013 Astanga Yoga / Mysore - Manju Pattabhi Jois
2013 First Aid for Yoga Teachers - Cardiff First Aid
2009 Leadership - InMovement
2008 Theatre in Prisons and Probation Services - TIPP
2007 Mentoring Level 2 - MANCAT / Open University
2007 Safeguarding - Manchester City Council
2007 Boundaries and young people - Manchester City Council