About Lis

My Training

I am a fully qualified Counsellor and completed my Diploma in 2009 with the Counselling on Merseyside Pastoral and Supporting Service (COMPASS), a Liverpool Centre of Excellence for Counselling, Training, CPD and Research. My training at COMPASS was an integrative ‘relational model,’ grounded in the Person-Centred Approach as well as some elements of Psychodynamic work.

In October 2013 I gained Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist status with BACP (’MBACP Accred’). This means that I have achieved a substantial level of approved training and experience and my practice has been deemed to meet the standard for a competent, ethical and independent practitioner. I am on the BACP Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (www.bacpregister.co.uk) in line with the Professional Standards Authority.

BACP Accredited Counsellor, October 2013
Counselling Diploma (Relational Model), COMPASS, Liverpool Sep 2006 – July 2009
MA in Victorian Literature, University of Liverpool 2002-2003
BA Hons (2:1) in English Language and Literature, University of Liverpool 1999-2002

My Experience

I worked as a COMPASS Counsellor from 2007 to 2014 and an Associate Counsellor at Liverpool Hope University from 2010 to 2015. I have been in private practice since 2013. In 2020 I joined the team of Counsellors at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA). After graduating from the University of Liverpool with a Masters degree in English Literature in 2003 I have worked in an administrative and pastoral supporting role in a large school 6th form. I also have experience of facilitating training in listening skills for small groups of adults. I have also been a Trustee of COMPASS Counselling.

Continuing Professional Development

Nov 2008 – Record Keeping for Counsellors and Supervisors
Oct 2009 – A Brief Introduction to EFT
Apr 2010 – Introduction to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Feb 2012 – Self Harm
Apr 2013 - Attachment, Psychotherapy and the Inner World: from ethology to relational neuroscience, delivered by Professor Jeremy Holmes
May 2013 BACP Accreditation Workshop
Mar/Apr 2014 - Mindfulness for Stress.
October 2015 - Schema Therapy.
Feb 2016 - Literature and Mental Health.
Mar 2016 - Solution Focused Therapy
Apr 2016 - Working at Relational Depth
Jan/Feb 2017 - Psychology and Mental health
Mar 2017 - Mindfulness training
Nov 2017 - Unlocking OCD
Feb 2018 - Creative Journaling
May/July 2018 - Clinical Supervision training, with Simon Kerr-Edwards.
Aug 2020 - Dissociation and DID, Carolyn Spring (6 hours)
Jan 2020 - Dealing with Distress, Working with Suicide and Self-Harm, Carolyn Spring (6 hours)
Jan 2020 - CBT for Counsellor and Coaches, Dan Jones (Udemy)
2020 - Carolyn Spring - 'Working with Trauma' webinars.
April 2020 - Online and Telephone Counselling, a Coronavirus primer
June/July 2020 - Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling (80 hours)
May 2021 - Working with Chronic Pain
May 2021 - Single Session Therapy Training (Windy Dryden).
July 2021- Working with Shame, Carolyn Spring (6 hours).
August 2023 - Working with Climate Change Anxiety.
September 2023 - Understanding Tourette Syndrome.
Winter 2023/24 - Certificate in Understanding Autism, Asperger's and ADHD, University of Derby Online Learning.
February 2024 - Mental Health and the Body: Treating Trauma, Carolyn Spring.

I am a committed member of a regular Personal Development group and a Creative Connections group with other qualified counsellors, as well as a book reviewer for the BACP Private Practice Journal. I have also written a Listening Skills Course which I am happy to tailor and deliver to different community groups.

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