Our Team
Christine gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling from the University of Hertfordshire.
She has completed a Post Graduate Certificate in Supervision with the Open College Network and is a qualified Play Therapist.
She is a practicing integrative Counsellor with over 25 years’ experience of working in education (primary and secondary) and in private practice, working with people of all ages.
This is Christine’s 10th year teaching Levels 3 & 4 and she is looking forward to developing new creative experiential opportunities to facilitate the learning and vital self-development for more students and trainee counsellors.
Christine is a registered member of BACP and Accredited Member of NCPS.
Ann has many years’ experience working in both the public employment sector and voluntary sector with a strong focus on social inclusion and in developing and building resilience in clients and families.
Finding that some programmes failed to help the most disadvantaged, Ann retrained to be a counsellor with North Hertfordshire College, qualifying in 2005.
Ann has a certificate in creative person-centred supervision and a qualification in coaching and mentoring. She regularly undertakes more creative training to maintain her personal development which balances her interest in written policies and procedures and her enthusiasm for criteria.
Ann works part-time in a secondary school as senior therapist and also has a small private practice.
Ann is a registered member of BACP.
Jamie has a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling from the University of East London and gained a Supervision qualification with the University of Derby.
She has a background in teaching and also holds a PGCE and a Postgraduate Diploma in Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion.
Jamie works in private practise, specialising in working with those who have been impacted by sexual violence and abuse. She is also experienced in pre-trial therapy and works with both adults and young people aged 13 and over.
Jamie is a registered member of BACP.
Alison qualified as a counsellor in 2006 and has worked in a variety of agencies with a wide variety of clients. She is person-centred in her approach, but also integrates other ways of working into her practice. She now works in private practice alongside teaching, presently studying for a Diploma in IFS and in RSRD Diploma training.
Alison began teaching 12 years ago, delivering Introduction to Counselling courses and has since taught at levels 2, 3 and 4 (diploma). She enjoys facilitating others’ learning process, enabling them to not only learn and develop their understanding of themselves and others around them, but also to develop their counselling skills too.
Alison is a registered member of BACP
Melissa qualified as a person-centred counsellor in 2023 at the Collaborative Counselling Academy. Since then she has gone on to create her own counselling services business working online with clients, and also working with family assessment centres supporting complex families, as well as the staff. Her work and further qualifications has allowed her to consider and apply a more integrative approach based on the needs of her clients and have variety in her work.
Melissa has also worked for 13 years in a secondary school, as both a teacher, pastoral lead and a counsellor. She enjoys working with clients of all ages, having supported clients from the ages of 11 to 85. Merging both her teaching experience and skill, with her passion for counselling allows Melissa the opportunity to help continue cultivating more counsellors into our community.
Melissa is a registered member of BACP.
We are a team of qualified and experienced counsellors/counselling trainers who are members of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) or the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). We are dedicated to developing practitioners who will make a difference to their clients, in a challenging, inspiring and supportive environment.
Due to regular developments in the field of counselling with new legislation and theoretical ideas emerging regularly, our tutors are required to be in practice, which entails abiding by the BACP or NCPS Ethical Frameworks, undertaking regular supervision and continuous professional development, in addition to annual CPCAB Standardisation training. Having practicing counsellors as tutors ensures we have a pragmatic yet deeply reflective approach to our delivery, which brings a wealth of experience to our training methods, utilises our knowledge to offer creative experiential activities and embeds learning.
Our tutors come from a variety of backgrounds including education, addiction rehabilitation, working with children and young people and working with trauma.