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Karuna Psychotherapy and Counselling Harrogate

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About Me

I studied at Leeds University part-time as an undergraduate in psychology and gained a 2:1 honours classification at the end of the six year programme. Throughout this time I learnt a great deal about the interactions between mind and behaviours. Following this, I took a one year post graduate training course in a psychotherapeutic approach called Transactional Analysis (TA) at the Northern Guild in Newcastle, which I successfully completed the following year. Following this I attained a merit in the Masters of Arts Client-Centred Psychotherapy training course based at Leeds Metropolitan University. In October 2007 I began a doctorate by professional studies undertaking research into the ways in which therapists work with people who have experienced abuse. This I anticipate completing by the end of 2010. I also regularly attend various conferences and seminars on different psychotherapeutic approaches aiming to keep myself up to date on the latest developments in the field.

Work Experience

I worked for the volunteer organisation Home-Start, a befriending service offered to families of children under five years of age, where I supported families over a period of a year. I was then employed by the NHS as a psychotherapist in a psychology department of a secure forensic unit in Leeds. I offered psychotherapy and counselling support to both in-patients and community based clients for three years. Whilst at the forensic unit, I also worked as a counsellor at Harrogate College of Arts and Technology. Following this I worked with in-patients at the Yorkshire Centre for Eating Disorders which I left in December of 2006 in order to work solely in private practice. I bought premesis in the centre of Harrogate in December 2007 and formally opened the Karuna centre in February 2008. In addition to myself at the centre there is a life coach, a psychiatrist who is also a pschotherapist in training, and a further counsellor soon to be qualified, working privately.

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