I am a qualified and registered/accredited integrative psychotherapist and counsellor working in private practice. As well as longer-term individual psychotherapy and counselling work, I am affiliated to provide short-term counselling to employees from the widest range of employment (across commercial, statutory and voluntary sectors). I work to support individuals with more current worries, anxieties and crises (including bereavement, trauma, relationship difficulties, anxiety/panic, work issues, bullying, etc) and longer-term problems perhaps arising from early/earlier experience. Sometimes people come to me at a point of crisis, challenge or 'stuckness' in their lives, where they are in need of a safe and confidential space in which to explore ways forward with their career, relationships, or other life areas.I have considerable experience in all 3 sectors over a period of 50+ years, including 40 years in the social care sector as a support worker and, later, as an independent mental health advocate. This includes service management in: adolescent services; children and adults with learning/physical disabilities; acute/intensive care/forensic/DSPD services). Until recently, for around 15 years, I worked as a social care/self-development trainer providing individually designed seminars and courses for service providers ranging through mental health, learning disabilities, mental health advocacy and older people's services.