Training & Experience

After completing teacher training, I worked as a teacher in a young offender’s institute, opening up more to empathy and compassion in how our experiences in early life and opportunities or lack of them can influence the course of our lives.

I started working therapeutically with children and young people from refugee and asylum-seeking communities in Greater Manchester in 2005. In 2006 I completed the Foundation in Cross Cultural Multi-Systemic Family Therapy which led on to extensively researching and training in therapeutic modalities to support my work.

At that time, the focus was on use of play, metaphor, storytelling and creative means to help children and young people explore and make sense of their inner world and distressing experiences in a safe way.

For the past 8 years I have worked as a counsellor and psychotherapist in various settings including working with young people at Noah's Ark in Halifax, supporting young people to make sense of the emotions they have been bottling up.

I have also worked as a Senior Therapist at Women’s Counselling and Therapy Service in Leeds offering long term psychotherapy for women from marginalised communities.