I hold a post-graduate diploma in counselling as well as other qualifications in hypnotherapy and solution-focused psychotherapy. I have also undertaken a broad range of other training courses in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Advanced Movitational Interviewing, LGBT affirmative work, safe trauma therapy, suicide prevention, sexual abuse, personality disorders and working with men. I have been working in private practice and in counselling agencies since 1999 and later obtained a full scholarship to attend the post-graduate counselling course at Brighton University, graduating in 2003. Originally, I studied at the Royal Academy of Music and have helped many clients with anxiety and performance related issues such as creative blockage. I am a counselling tutor with the CPTA in Brighton.