Continued Professional Development (CPD) 2024
Courses and Workshops
Healing Generational Wounds: Integrating Attachment Theory and Cultural Competence in Therapy: A Video Resource Pack, including Attachment: Hurting and Healing Across Generations (Dr Gwen Adshead & Dr Chrissy Jayarajah, CPD/CE credits: 6) and Healing Legacy Burdens: Culturally Competent Therapeutic Approaches (Stacy Ruse, LPC, CPD hours: 6) Total CPD Hours: 12
Dealing with Distress: Working with Suicide and Self-harming, self-led online course with Caroline Spring Ltd April 2024
Discovering Limerence, self-led online course by Victoria Zamchevska, April, 2024
Building an Effective Neurodivergent-Affirmative Practice: Working with Traumatised Adults with undiagnosed ADHD and ASC, An online workshop, With Christiane Sanderson, 25 & 26 January 2024
Cultivating You: a course on creating a more nourishing relationship with yourself with Lisa Olivera
Books
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality by Jerold J Kreisman
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will be Glad That You Did) by Philippa Perry
Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm by Ruth King
Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel, MD, and Tina Payne Bryson
Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection by Deb Dana
Continued Professional Development (CPD) 2023 (on maternity leave from June-November)
Trainings and Courses
Neurodiversity 101: Intro to the neurodiversity-affirmative approach (2023): Free2bMe, Online Training
Trauma in the Womb: How Prenatal Experience Impacts Adult Clients, Talk on Demand, Recorded Friday 21 October 2022, With Dr Cherionna Menzam-Sills, CONFER
Cultivating You: a course on creating a more nourishing relationship with yourself with Lisa Olivera (in progress).
The Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions, The Great Courses, With Professor Robert C. Solomon at The University of Texas at Austin. Completed in December 2023.
Books
Belonging by bell hooks
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
The Wisdom of Anxiety: How Worry and Intrusive Thoughts Are Gifts to Help You Heal by Sheryl Paul MA
Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World by Pema Chödrön
The Honest Enneagram: Know Your Type, Own Your Challenges, Embrace Your Growth by Sarajane Case
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress by Gabor Maté
Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD Are So Ashamed and What We Can Do to Help by Richard Pink
The Journey from Abandonment to Healing: Turn the End of a Relationship into the Beginning of a New Life by Susan Anderson
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsey C. Gibson
Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears by Pema Chödrön
Procrastination: Why You Do It, What To Do About It by Jane B. Burka
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab
Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration by Karen C.L. Anderson
The Counsellor's Guide to Parks Inner Child Therapy by Penny Parks
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz
Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance by Lisa Olivera
Why People Don't Heal and How They Can: A Practical Programme for Healing Body, Mind and Spirit by Caroline Myss
Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child by Gary Roe
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing by David A. Treleaven
Getting Control: Overcoming Your Obsessions and Compulsions by Lee Baer
Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-pa Turner
Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Mate
Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with The Practice of RAIN - Hardcover by Tara Brach
Avoidant Attachment Recovery: Break Free from Avoidant Habits to Build Secure and Long Term Relationships by Linda Hill