The impact of mental health in the workplace has a huge impact not only for individuals but for the organisation's bottom line. I can help organisations think about how they approach wellbeing in the workplace to produce functioning and innovative teams. 

My expertise in CBT can help you learn the theory and a range of therapeutic skills that you can implement straight away. A series of training sessions can imporve the skills and therapeutic input that you can offer.

A therapy traditionally offered for people with difficulties in regulating emotions and with relating to others, this training in DBT outlines the models and techniques used to engage this client group. I have passed my intesive DBT training and worked within this model for many years brigning my experience to the training. 

Motivational Interviewing skills, orginally designed to help people with addictions can help motivate others and implement change. Whether this be related to gambling, spotting self-defeating patterns or motivating people to engage, this skill can be essential in healthcare.

Over many years of working in secure settings, I have developed expertise in assessment and managing risk. Training can help you understand risk in general and how to deal with crises including self-harm, violence, the risk of suicide or sexual harm. I can teach the use of structured professional judgement tools such as the HCR-20 version 3. 

Offering therapy can feel overwhelming and so training sessions that can offer a range of skills from basic listening and validation, Motoivational Interviewing and CBT techniques can skill up your workforce quickly.

This much misunderstood issue can often raise much heat but little warmth. The training helps understand self-harm and develop effective and compassionate strategies to manage this to reduce risk. 

I have regularly lectured at university on working with people who commit sexual offences. The training gives the psychological as well as the social perspective on this much misundertood topic. I outline ways to assess individual's risk, effective treatments and engagement strategies.

I offer a 2 day training exploring the issues of working with groups therapeutically. The training gives you skills to understand group dynamics, experience what it is like to be in a therapeutic group and devlop the skills to be an effective group leader.

Providing psychological assessments for Court and the legal profession often involves the complex issues to consider when exploring motive, mitigation and malingering. I can provide training for lawyers and psychologicists on how to negotiate this interface and provide the best representation for the client.