MPhil. Dip PC., BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor and Supervisor, BASF Practitioner & Trainer

A background in teaching, living in Tanzania in a needy expatriate community, bringing up a family along with experience of personal ill health contributed to my move into counselling.

I have been counselling for over 30 years and supervising for 20: training with an eclectic mix of humanistic therapies with Human Social Functioning as a core training. During the last 30 years in addition to counselling and psychotherapy, with a particular interest in trauma and change, I have enjoyed a pioneering role within two organisations.

As co-founder of a holistic charity HealthLink360 (www.healthlink360.org) in 1983 where I successfully developed its psychological resources and, within that agency, trained and facilitated an innovative team who offered assessment, life mentoring and counselling to those whose work involved leadership, change or trauma; and

As chair of The British Association for Social Functioning (www.basf.org.uk), the organisation that represents Human Social Functioning (HSF) in the UK: HSF is a therapeutic approach incorporating a unique questionnaire the Heimler Scale of Social Functioning (HSSF) that assists individuals to make important life changes by understanding their current strengths and challenges in functioning. BASF is growing: training practitioners in the UK and Internationally.

I am now working as a private practitioner and supervisor.