Professional Profile
Accredited Senior Psychotherapist with extensive clinical experience across outpatient psychiatric settings, community trusts, and specialised psychological services. Competent in delivering integrative and cognitive-behavioural psychotherapies for complex trauma, depression, and anxiety disorders, supported by structured clinical supervision and multi-agency case collaboration.
Clinical Experience
Medlock Clinical Wellbeing Trust
Manchester, United Kingdom
Lead Adult Psychotherapist
Mar 2021 – Present
- Deliver specialised integrative psychotherapy to adults presenting with complex trauma, severe affective disorders, and chronic anxiety presentations.
- Provide weekly individual clinical supervision and case consultations for seven qualified therapists and postgraduate clinical trainees.
- Facilitate quarterly multidisciplinary clinical reviews, aligning therapeutic formulations across medical, psychiatric, and social care teams.
- Pioneered a trauma-informed stabilization protocol that reduced early therapy dropout rates by nineteen percent across primary referral pathways.
Pennine Valley Mental Health Partnership
Manchester, United Kingdom
Senior Specialist Psychotherapist
Aug 2017 – Feb 2021
- Conducted comprehensive diagnostic assessments and formulated evidence-based psychological treatment plans for outpatients referred via primary care.
- Conducted structured courses of individual cognitive behavioural therapy and psychodynamic therapy for moderate-to-severe mood disorders.
- Co-facilitated an eight-week mindfulness-based cognitive therapy group cycle, improving clinical outcomes across patient-reported outcome measures.
- Delivered crisis de-escalation, suicide risk assessments, and clinical safeguarding reporting in compliance with statutory frameworks.
Psychotherapist
Sept 2014 – Jul 2017
- Managed a dedicated outpatient caseload of twenty-two weekly client sessions, maintaining systematic treatment documentation and clinical evaluations.
- Delivered short-term focused therapeutic interventions for panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and generalised anxiety disorder.
- Participated in fortnightly peer supervision groups and contributed to service auditing procedures.
Irwell Psychological Therapies Centre
Salford, United Kingdom
Trainee Psychological Therapist
Oct 2012 – Aug 2014
- Completed supervised clinical practice hours delivering low-intensity cognitive behavioural interventions and guided self-help.
- Assisted in screening assessments, intake triage, and standardized outcome monitoring using CORE-OM and GAD-7 measures.
Education and Qualifications
Manchester Metropolitan University
MSc · Integrative Psychotherapy · Manchester, United Kingdom · Distinction · Sept 2011 – Jun 2014
Completed advanced clinical placements across adult secondary outpatient services, conducting over four hundred hours of supervised individual therapy and completing a dissertation on relational approaches to treatment-resistant depression.
University of Manchester
BSc (Hons) · Psychology · Manchester, United Kingdom · First Class Honours · Sept 2006 – Jun 2009
Core modules included developmental psychopathology, cognitive neuroscience, research methodologies, and quantitative data analysis.
Clinical Innovations
Community Clinical Outcomes Modernisation
Nov 2022 – Sept 2023
- Standardised outcome-monitoring procedures across four community therapy hubs using validated self-report metrics, establishing digital baseline evaluations.
- Authored an internal clinical practice handbook on relational interventions for comorbid anxiety and chronic pain conditions.
Clinical Competencies
Integrative Psychotherapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Psychodynamic Therapy
Clinical Supervision
Trauma-Informed Care
Psychological Assessment & Formulation
Risk Assessment & Crisis Management
Group Therapy Facilitation
Safeguarding & Clinical Governance
Languages
English
C2
French
B2
Professional Accreditations
Registered Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy · Nov 2015
Accredited CBT Practitioner
British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies · Apr 2019
Voluntary Experience
Greater Manchester Community Support Network
Manchester, United Kingdom · Jan 2016 – Dec 2019
- Volunteer Counsellor
- Provided pro bono fortnightly individual counselling sessions for adults facing bereavement, social isolation, and acute life adjustment difficulties.
- Assisted in volunteer counsellor peer training workshops focused on active listening techniques and crisis boundary management.