- Provision of brief and long-term psychological therapy interventions drawing from various therapeutic modalities, including existential/phenomenological, psychoanalytic, CBT, and humanistic. - Conducting psychological assessments and constructing collaborative formulations to increase clients’ self-awareness and understanding of their predicament, nature of distress, needs, expectations, and desired outcome.- Using, evaluating, and interpreting psychological tests when applicable- Working with a diverse clientele including disabled, ethnic, religious, gender and sexual minority clients. - Provision of clinical supervision to psychologists and psychotherapists.- Provision of research supervision to postgraduate psychology and psychotherapy trainees, including academic consultation and training.

- Specialised counselling psychology input to clients referred to the agency via workplace resources such as Occupational Health, on-site GPs, private medical insurers and Income Protection insurers. - Psychological assessments based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources including clinical interview, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect observations and semi-structured interviews - Formulating, implementing and recommending intervention plans to colleagues, those in other agencies and for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patients’ mental health difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework

- Acting as Professional Practice Lead for the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology.- Overseeing policy and strategic matters relating to professional practice in collaboration with the Head of Programme and in liaison with Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies (HCPC, BPS).- Leading and overseeing all professional practice modules of the doctoral training. - Providing support and supervision to personal tutors.- Module leading and teaching and curriculum design.- Acting as a personal tutor across the three years of the training. - Facilitation of professional development groups and provision of clinical supervision.- Supervising doctoral research projects and viva voce examiner.- Promoting the department and the doctoral training and interviewing candidates for the doctoral training.

- Liaised with the European Association for Psychotherapists (EAP) for setting training standards for institutes and awarding successful applicants the European Certificate for Psychotherapy (ECP).- Monitored the implementation of the association’s strategies. - Ensured that priorities and governance concerns were addressed in the most effective and efficient manner. - Worked in consultation with training institutes and member organisations in setting the minimum standards for education, training and continuing professional development for psychotherapists.

- Psychological support to children, adolescents, and young adults via a crisis hotline - Synchronous and asynchronous online counselling.- Crisis interventions and safety planning as needed.- Provision of information and appropriate referrals to community services.- Quality audits and evaluation of services (qualitative and quantitative analyses of anonymous data).

- Provision of short-term and long-term psychological therapy to unemployed young adults who experienced psychosocial difficulties.- Provision of information and appropriate referrals to community services.- Provision of training and seminars to the local community and municipalities on mental health issues and unemployment implications.

- Contributed to University’s planning of research projects on students’ mental health in collaboration with the Counselling Centre. - Developed research objectives and proposals and written up research work for publication. - Systematic data collection, analysis, and management. - Quantitative research methods and data analysis using statistical techniques.- Dissemination of research at conferences at national and international conferences.

- Prevention expert for the European funded project ‘Take Care’ financially sponsored by the Health Program of the European Commission (EAHC).- Developing and delivering educational opportunities for the community on the harmful effects of substance use.- Training services for educators on primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.- Facilitation of personal development groups for undergraduate and postgraduate students, adolescents, children, and parents. - Participating in, organising, and facilitating community-based coalitions and meetings with stakeholders from local agencies, private businesses, and community organisations

- Ensuring that valuing mental health carers is integral to the work of the Mental Health Trust through a strategic overview of services and support provided to carers. - Playing an acting role in the implementation of the carers’ strategy within the Mental Health Trust and developing networks for carers across the range of services within and outside the Trust.- Enabling mental health services to utilise the full range of services available to carers across the voluntary and statutory sector.- Providing consultancy and training to Trust’s staff on mental health carers’ needs.

- Maintenance of effective therapeutic relationships with service users who presented with acute distress and psychotic difficulties based on an acute psychiatric ward - Co-facilitation of weekly group therapy for psychosis - Co-facilitation of the family clinic on the ward - Provision of psychosocial family interventions and psychoeducation to families - Facilitation of mental health carers groups

- Conducted risk assessments and offered appropriate short-term therapy, psychoeducational interventions, and referrals on to more appropriate services, communicating outcomes and suggestions for alternate care back to GPs/Other Health Professionals.- Formulated, implemented, and evaluated therapy programmes for adults from different cultural backgrounds and ages.- Worked closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.- Kept coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols.

- Provision of non-directive play therapy to primary school children for issues such as abuse and neglect, bereavement, depression and anxiety, divorce and family separations, traumatic experiences, and violence.- Accept children through self-referral and referrals from teachers and other support professionals in the school- Assessment of children’s individual needs- Provision of therapeutic interventions in individual and group therapy sessions on a weekly basis, to help children better cope with the issues they're facing