Consulting. Coaching. Training. Facilitating.

About me

Here you can find out a bit more about me and the context around the personal and professional development services I provide.

This context is important as it shapes my work and will also support you in deciding if we might be a good fit to work together.

At the core of my approach is a strong emphasis on communication and relationships.

The framework I deliver my services through is also vital, as this provides the boundaries that define our work and support us in assessing it’s effectiveness.

Approach

I use the systems psychodynamics approach in my work. This allows consideration of multiple layers of experience: that of being in a role, a member of various groups, our felt experience, the structures and systems we move through, work and live in.

This approach has been invaluable in providing important context, supported sense making, and personal/ professional development. It facilitates the capacity to sustain myself and support others in navigating the complexity of work.

I hold an MA, undertaken at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in Consulting and Leading in Organisations. This is in intensive course of study that provides training in and a framework for this approach.

Through integrating systems and psychoanalytic theory, research and insights from experiential learning in groups, we can consider issues such as role, task, boundaries and authority.

Alongside this, close attention is paid to emotional experience, and the dynamics of the groups we work in. This supports a deepened understanding and can facilitate shifts in approaches and in the structures we create to support our aims.

I’m a firm believer in ongoing personal and professional development, and have also obtained a teaching adults in the lifelong learning sector qualification, and a certificate in coaching and mentoring to support in the delivery of my services.

Experience

A rich and diverse professional background in the fields of mental health, training and consulting supports the delivery of my services.

My journey has taken me from the frontlines of secure forensic settings to pioneering community-based initiatives, and to leadership roles in mental health services.

I have also spent decades designing and delivering training aimed at supporting individuals, groups and teams in their work. This work often involved distress, trauma and the impact of systemic inequality. Thus a trauma informed approach has been central to my offer.

Working and delivering training in these settings resulted in a firm belief in the importance of access to supportive developmental learning spaces for all, those involved in the commissioning and provision of services.

This naturally progressed to the provision of consulting, coaching and reflective practice facilitation. I currently work with a range of individuals and organisations.

I also bring lived experience and expertise, as a woman of Irish and Black Carribean background with extensive experience of navigating systems of mental health, learning disability and autism (health, social care and education). I am interested in how we navigate difference and diversity in our society and within our systems and organisations of work.