Background and qualifications

Background

I started out in the NHS as a psychiatric social worker, in St Georges Teaching Hospital, in a therapeutic community in Adult Psychiatry. I worked 1-1, with couples and in groups to bring about positive behaviour change. This experience fired my career long passion for motivation and empowerment.

After transitioning to a position as self-employed facilitator and trainer, I broadened my range by taking on teaching women assertiveness. With ongoing investment in learning and development, I transitioned into setting up Two Way Talking in 1991, a communication consultancy. My focus was  on personal growth, leadership development, consultancy and 1-1 coaching. in the public, not-for-profit and SME sectors. 

In 1993 I added mediation to my portfolio and throughout the 90s, a period of expansion in legally aided mediation, I was invited to join the board of the FMA (Family Mediators Association) and was closely involved in rolling out mediation services in the North East for the then, Legal Services Commission. During that time I trained, supervised and assessed mediators and consulted to law firms helping them set up their own mediation practices.

When I relocated to London in 2004 I continued to coach but now in the corporate sector. In 2008 I took an advanced executive coaching qualification with the Academy of Executive Coaching and am now a full-time executive coach. I work with individuals and am on the coaching panels of several large organisations. I provide 1-1 coaching, tailored packages for leaders of hybrid teams and mediation services.

Qualifications

Group facilitation Course Tavistock Clinic

Certificate of Qualification in Social Work Dundee University

Qualified Family Mediator Family Mediators Association

Supervision qualification Family Mediators Association/ Solicitors Family Law Association

Women’s assertiveness

Gestalt in Organisational Development, including a coaching element. 1 year course with Colosseum

Certificate in Transactional Analysis Berne Institute

Sociodrama training, 3 year course with Sociodrama and Action Methods, affiliated to British Psychodrama Association

Master Practitioner NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Performance Partnership, David Shepherd

Team Management Leadership Programme Landmark Education

BPS Level B Psychometric testing in Emotional Intelligence

Professional Affiliation