Role: Counsellor
Qualifications: MBACP, FdA, Dip, LCGI
Lisa started her counselling journey in 2004, completing her training at Harrow College; Graduating with a Foundation Degree from Middlesex University in 2009.
She also has a Diploma in Person Centered Art Therapy skills and has undertaken a vast range of Continuing Professional Development over the last 18 years. Lisa has worked in Hastings since her relocation here from London in 2011.
She is passionate and dedicated to her work within GP Practices, Primary & Secondary Schools, Probation and Addiction Services and was also a Nursing & Health Care Assistant in Hastings Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, at the Conquest Hospital. As a result of her years of experience, she has a wealth of knowledge in these areas, from providing training and workshops to local primary school staff and counsellors, to her role as a Consultant Counsellor, providing support to children with Adverse Childhood Experiences and Complex and Special Educational Needs.
Lisa is the Managing Director of Inner Peace Counselling Service and The Children’s Wellbeing Institute; providing bespoke counselling to young children (5+), adolescents and adults. In addition, Lisa is an Affiliate Trauma Therapist, supporting children and adults who have experienced serious Sexual Assault and Abuse. Furthermore, Lisa works with Looked After Children, currently funded by a Local Authority offering School-based and Eco-therapies. She is also an Affiliate Counsellor for a local children’s counselling service.
Within her Private Practice, Lisa is a Pluralistic Practitioner providing Trauma Informed Interventions, Psychoeducation, Play and Art based Creative Therapies and equips her clients with Coping Tools and Strategies for Self-Regulation (when appropriate) working face to face with clients, as well as working remotely offering Tele-Health sessions across the UK. Lisa and her Partner Co-Founded ‘Encapsulated Energy’, a musical event, that has raised over £33,000 for local charities.
Lisa has experience in supporting clients with:
- Addiction & Substance Misuse
- Adoption/ Looked After Children
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Attachment Issues
- Auditory & Visual Hallucinations
- Bereavement & Loss
- Bullying
- Childhood Sexual Abuse
- Complex Trauma
- Confidence
- Critical Self Talk
- Debilitating Health Conditions
- De-realism, De-personalisation, Dissociation & Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Domestic Abuse
- Eating Disorders
- Education outside of School
- Emotionally Based School Avoidance
- Exam Stress
- Family Breakdown / Divorce
- General Anxiety Disorder
- High Risk Behaviors
- Intimacy Issues
- LGBT / Sexual Orientation & Identification
- Life Transitions / Cross-roads
- Mental Health Diagnosis/Disorders
- Obsessive Compulsive Distress/Disorder (OCD)
- Offending Behavior/Probationers
- Paranoia
- Personal Development
- Psychosis
- PTSD
- Post Psychiatric In-patient Support
- Rehabilitation
- Relational Trauma
- School Based Avoidance
- Self Esteem Matters
- Self-Harm
- Sexual Violence
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- Special Educational Needs (ADHD, Asperger’s, Autism, Dyslexia, Global Development Delay, Pathological Demand Avoidance, Sensory Processing Disorder, Vestibular Processing Disorder)
- Suicidal Thoughts & Fixations
- Trauma
- Veterans of the Armed Forces
