In March 2016, I was made a Fellow of the National Counselling Society. In December 2015, I had the honour of being the first non-psychologist to receive the Practitioner Award from the British Psychological Society - Psychology of Sexualities Section. In February 2015 I was interviewed for the BACP Journal Therapy Today. I have served previously on the editorial board for the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy and am currently on the editorial board for Psychology and Sexuality and the Advisory Board for Behavioural and Social Sciences at Harrington Park Press (NY). I am a Fellow of both the National Council of Psychotherapists and of the National Counselling Society.
In 1999 I returned to the UK and set up Pink Therapy (this organisation) where we have continued to pioneer training for therapists in working with people with diverse genders, sexualities, relationships and lifestyles. In 1997, I I left Nottingham to go to Australasia to where I finished co-editing the second two volumes of Pink Therapy textbooks and delivered some training and consultancy around sexuality and disability issues in Sydney, Melbourne and across New Zealand. My first book Pink Therapy (co-edited with Charles Neal, McGraw Hill) was published in 1996 and later that year I had a second book (The Sexual Politics of Disability: Untold Desires) published co-authored with Tom Shakespeare and Kath Gillespie-Sells. In 1989 I moved to Nottingham University to take up a post as a University Counsellor and in 1995 I moved to Nottingham Trent University as a Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy - training counsellors and psychotherapists on their programme. I went to New York and San Francisco to learn from and be trained as a 'buddy' and came back to the UK and trained the first HIV Buddies for Merseyside and Manchester, I also pioneered training for deaf people working as buddies and support workers with people with HIV/AIDS and ran a range of innovative training workshops around sexual health, gay men and sexuality. In 1987 I made a career change from University Counselling to work in HIV Education and prevention spearheading up a broad programme of activities for Mersey Regional Health Authority. I also began my training in Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy with Dave Mearns, Brian Thorne and Elke Lambers (1985-1988). I also volunteered as a counsellor and assessor at Leicester Counselling Centre and was supervised for many years by the late Dr Bernard Ratigan.
On graduating from that course, I started a training practicum as a University Counsellor under the supervision of Michael Jacobs and later with Moira Walker. I also trained as a Residential Social Worker and worked with emotionally damaged adolescents before heading off to university to train as a Community and Youth Worker, specialising as a youth counsellor. I began my career as a volunteer working with the Samaritans, working with them for the first decade of my career - mostly doing outreach support at music festivals around the UK, alongside two years of work on their helplines. I sometimes have ad hoc space for consultations & supervision.
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UPDATE January 2022: My Practice is currently full and I am unable to take on any new therapy ongoing clients.