Kay

Qualifications 

• BA Hons Integrative Counselling
• EMDR Practitioner
• Clinical Supervisor
• RNIB: Sight Loss Counsellor
• Foundation for Infant Loss Practitioner

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At the heart of my work is a simple truth: shame softens in the presence of authentic honour. I'm not here to fix or rescue anyone, I'm here to witness, to validate, and to walk alongside people as they return to themselves. For me, this work isn't about becoming shameless, it's about becoming whole, reclaiming identity through authentic honour, and returning to a compassionate sense of self-worth.

I have specialised experience working with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), anxiety, attachment issues, bereavement, birth trauma, miscarriage and baby loss, sexual trauma and rape, domestic violence, and pre-trial support. I've also worked with many clients facing stress, relationship issues and life transitions (divorce, separation, redundancy, retirement, relocation), low self-esteem and shame, childhood neglect and abuse, chronic illness, PMS, PMDD and menopause, self-harm, panic attacks, and issues relating to spirituality. I aim, as far as I'm able, to create inclusive and accessible environments for everyone. With specialised training in neurodiversity, including ADHD, ASD and AuDHD, and enriched by my RNIB certification, I develop strategies that embrace your individual strengths and difficulties.

My focus is on helping you build resilience and gain deeper insight into what's affecting your emotional wellbeing. By understanding these challenges together, we work collaboratively towards improving your mental health. Integrating CBT, person-centred therapy, attachment theory, and elements of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and systemic theory allows me to create an experience that's personal to you.

Alongside my work at Place to Talk Therapies, I also work as an associate counsellor at Poole Therapies, where, amongst other clients, I support students completing their MA or PhD research while on international placements. I've also worked at STARS, a specialised sexual trauma agency in Dorset, providing counselling to clients who have experienced recent sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse or domestic violence.

Before training as a counsellor, I worked as the Family Liaison Officer for Family Counselling Trust (Dorset), and before that, as a swimming teacher. My working life has also included roles as a Registered Midwife and Registered General Nurse. I'm married with a grown-up family, and I love living on the South Coast of England, where I enjoy walking my springer spaniel along the beach and through the surrounding countryside.

Alongside 1-1 counselling, I also offer clinical supervision for counsellors and counselling students. Find out more about SUPERVISION

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Qualifications & Professional Registration
I am qualified, registered and insured. I also actively engage in regular CPD (continuing professional development) to maintain and continually enhance my professional practice.

• BA Hons Counselling - Middlesex University
• DipHE Counselling - Middlesex University
• Diploma in Supervision
• EMDR Practitioner
• MBACP Accredited Member 402110
• ACC Accredited Member R001502      

Continuing Professional Development
2026 

• FIL: Endometriosis and Poly cystic Ovary Syndrome Awareness
• FIL: Menopause Awareness including the invisible loss of Premature Menopause
• FIL: Workplace Training including Baby loss difficult conversations pregnancy and infant loss or infertility
• FIL: Certified ADVANCED Rainbow Baby Specialist and Support Session Facilitator

2025

• RNIB: Sight Loss Counsellor
• Foundation for Infant Loss Practitioner
• PESI Polyvagal - Somatic & Sound-Based Therapies for Nervous System Regulation

2024

• PESI - Attachment Theory in Clinical Practice: Transforming Development Deficits and Building Secure Attachment
• PESI - Finding Meaning in Loss: The Sixth Stage of Grief
• TRANSFORMATION Services - Professional Life Coach
• SANDS - Counselling parents and families following pregnancy loss and the death of a baby
• MAKE BIRTH BETTER- Birth Trauma Training Programme
• BEAT - ARFID Workshop
• NEDDE - Understanding and Managing ARFID, PDA and PICA Disorders
• BIELEC CONSULTANCY - Domestic Abuse, Coercive Controlling Behaviour & Stalking
• COLLABORATIVE COUNSELLING ACADEMY LTD - Working with Shame in the Therapy Room
• (MUSS) REWIND Technique

2023

• Safeguarding Level 3
• Working with suicide, intervention & prevention
• Applying Attachment Theory
• Strength-based Interventions to Thrive with ADHD from Childhood to Adulthood
• Integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) Across Clinical Applications
• Treating Trauma with IFS: Procedures for Healing Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, and more
• Single-session therapy
• Gaslighting: Rebuild from a Narcissist's Emotional Abuse
• JANINA FISCHER - Trauma Treatment Certification Training (CCTP)
• CHRISTIANE SANDERSON - Intensive Course in Trauma-Informed Practice: Treating Complex PTSD
• PESI: Pregnancy and Infant Loss: Strategies to Support Grief and Treat Trauma
• BLUESTAR- Pre-Trial Therapy Training Programme

2022

• CPCAB: Trauma Informed Practice
• PACT - Working with Gestalt techniques
• Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model
• PACT - Working Creatively with Nesting Dolls in Counselling
• PACT - Attachment and Shame
• PACT - Building Boundaries Breaking Barriers

2021

• Telephone and E-counselling
• BACP/OU Counselling online

2020

• CRUSE: Bereavement Support Training
• Safeguarding, Level 2

I also hold:

• Enhanced DBS
• Insurance
• ICO Registered

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