My background of working with people and their problems, and my Professional QualificationsMy professional training as a Psychological Therapist and my Professional Psychotherapy work with adults from 1998 up to the present time
Building on my earlier background experience (see below) of working professionally with serious emotional and behavioural issues internationally, and wishing to re-focus my career completely into private psychotherapeutic work with adults, as well as adult sexuality education and sexology, in 1998 I commenced my training as a Psychotherapist in the Master's degree programme within the School of Psychology, University of East London, London, UK. In addition to the theoretical counselling and psychotherapy core studies my supervised professional training consisted of me providing psychotherapy for almost two years to adult psychiatric and GP-referral clients at the UEL Psychology Clinic, and to students at the university's Student Services Counselling Centre. I successfully completed my postgraduate competency requirements in 2000 for the Postgraduate Diploma and, after completing further training in psychotherapy and my research dissertation, in 2002 I was awarded the university's MA in integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Since 2000 I have practised exclusively as a private Psychotherapist with adult individuals and couples, working with each of my clients on intense personal emotional and behavioural problems focusing particularly on a wide range of sexual relationship issues and problems. In connection with relationships, I have a strong professional interest in problems associated with sexual worries, how to relate and communicate, sexual abuse issues, risk perception, and with issues of low self esteem and low self-achievement. I also specialise in working with issues relating to anger, insecurities and anxieties. I am knowledgeable about, and friendly to, all alternative sexual lifestyles, sexual orientations and "minorities" and such clients find a very welcoming safe space with me from within which to explore and work on their problems and issues free from ignorance and prejudice.
A synopsis of my earlier professional training and international work with emotional and behavioural problems in children and young people from 1971 to 1999
From the beginning of my professional career my focus has always been on working with people experiencing emotional and behavioural problems. I completed my Bachelor's degree and teacher training in 1975 in the UK. This training included some specialization in working with emotional and behavioural problems in young people. Academically this was followed by two Master's degrees from the United States - one specializing in the geographic and social distribution of health problems and the other specializing in the history of legal and social constraints on sexual expression.
From 1975 to 1999 I taught in the southeast of England, interspersed with eleven years in California. In 1982 I received a Fulbright Scholarship from the respective Fulbright organizations of the UK and the USA in recognition of my professional teaching and guidance work in Essex, UK with children and young people in mainstream educational environments who were experiencing emotional, educational and behavioural difficulties. This Fulbright Award took the form of a fully-funded professional teacher exchange, allowing me to live and teach in California for one academic year - 1982 to 1983 - to share my teaching and guidance approach with American colleagues and students. I subsequently returned to live, study and teach in Los Angeles from 1986 to 1995. My specialization as an educator was in motivating, teaching, and assessing young urban students of all ability levels, in mainstream and special education environments, who exhibited significant low self-esteem, insecurities, anxieties, anger, aggression, depressive feelings, and resultant frustration and failure. It was during this earlier 1970s and 1980s period of my career that I also became deeply aware of, and involved professionally with, the very prevalent phenomenon of childhood sexual abuse within the family. My work through much of this time often involved guidance counselling and advising with children and their parents and carers also.
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