Emma Carrington Email & Phone Number

A qualified counsellor with experience of working in a general practice (Cedar Counselling), bereavement (Cruse), substance abuse (Swanswell, National Probation Service), and for many years with the LGBT community (Sexual Health Outreach and Psychotherapy for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust).In private practice i prefer working mid-long term with clients and use an integrative approach combining psychodynamic, TA and humanistic principles. I work alongside other amazing counsellors at Serenity Psychotherapy which has clinics in Earlswood (south Birmingham) and Burton on Trent.I am also the manager of the Rethink Mental Illness Advice & Information Service. I manage a team who advise on mental health issues to people with mental illness, carers and professionals. The range of advice is wide from detention under the Mental Health Act to welfare benefits. I particularly enjoy supporting my team to develop and love to see them go off to do even more exciting roles, taking the passion and camaraderie of the Advice & Information team with them to pastures new!I recently completed a 15 month secondment with Mental Health UK setting up a really exciting pilot helping a large corporate customer support the wellbeing of their colleagues. As part of this pilot i have been responsible for facilitating group supervision sessions to help colleagues facing burnout and vicarious trauma. I have also provided emotional debriefs to colleagues and have developed and run training sessions for team managers on how to conduct debriefs with their teams. I have also provided consultancy to the Group on systemic issues facing colleagues and the impact upon their mental wellbeing.I have 3 years experience working with offenders as an Accredited Programmes Facilitator for the probation service. I delivered Drink Impaired Drivers, Lower Intenstity Alcohol, Thinking Skills and RESOLVE (anger and emotional management) programmes on behalf of the National Offender Management Service. Accredited Programmes are research led and use motivational interviewing techniques and CBT principles to help offenders with substance misuse, emotional regulation, and consequential thinking problems to understand, acknowledge and change their behaviour.Prior to training as a counsellor i had 22 years experience of working within a corporate environment, 12 years of which i specialised in risk management, particularly in relation to retail banking practices.

Listed skills include Coaching, Training, Risk Management, Change Management, and 34 others.