Continued Professional Development (CPD) 2024

Workshops and Trainings

Dealing with Distress: Working with Suicide and Self-harming, self-led online course with Caroline Spring Ltd April 2024

Discovering Limerence, self-led online course by Victoria Zamchevska, April, 2024

Building an Effective Neurodivergent-Affirmative Practice: Working with Traumatised Adults with undiagnosed ADHD and ASC, An online workshop, With Christiane Sanderson, 25 & 26 January 2024

Cultivating You: a course on creating a more nourishing relationship with yourself with Lisa Olivera (in progress).

Books

Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm by Ruth King

Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel, MD, and Tina Payne Bryson

Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection by Deb Dana (in progress)

Continued Professional Development (CPD) 2023 (on maternity leave from June-November)

Talks and Workshops

Neurodiversity 101: Intro to the neurodiversity-affirmative approach (2023): Free2bMe, Online Training

Trauma in the Womb: How Prenatal Experience Impacts Adult Clients, Talk on Demand, Recorded Friday 21 October 2022, With Dr Cherionna Menzam-Sills, CONFER

Cultivating You: a course on creating a more nourishing relationship with yourself with Lisa Olivera (in progress).

The Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions, The Great Courses, With Professor Robert C. Solomon at The University of Texas at Austin. Completed in December 2023.

Books

  1. Belonging by bell hooks

  2. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks

  3. The Wisdom of Anxiety: How Worry and Intrusive Thoughts Are Gifts to Help You Heal by Sheryl Paul MA

  4. Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World by Pema Chödrön

  5. The Honest Enneagram: Know Your Type, Own Your Challenges, Embrace Your Growth by Sarajane Case

  6. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress by Gabor Maté

  7. Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD Are So Ashamed and What We Can Do to Help by Richard Pink

  8. The Journey from Abandonment to Healing: Turn the End of a Relationship into the Beginning of a New Life by Susan Anderson

  9. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsey C. Gibson

  10. Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears by Pema Chödrön

  11. Procrastination: Why You Do It, What To Do About It by Jane B. Burka

  12. Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab

  13. Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration by Karen C.L. Anderson

  14. The Counsellor's Guide to Parks Inner Child Therapy by Penny Parks

  15. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz

  16. Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance by Lisa Olivera

  17. Why People Don't Heal and How They Can: A Practical Programme for Healing Body, Mind and Spirit by Caroline Myss

  18. Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child by Gary Roe

  19. Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie

  20. Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing by David A. Treleaven

  21. Getting Control: Overcoming Your Obsessions and Compulsions by Lee Baer

  22. Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-pa Turner

  23. Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Mate

  24. Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with The Practice of RAIN - Hardcover by Tara Brach

  25. Avoidant Attachment Recovery: Break Free from Avoidant Habits to Build Secure and Long Term Relationships by Linda Hill