Hi I’m David I qualified as an integrative Counsellor in 2012. In my post qualification years I have been working in community based charity funded organisations and private practice working with a wide range of people presenting with a wide range of issues.

In 2015 I began my training in Somatic experiencing and followed this with my Gestalt practitioner training.

These trainings have helped me to understand myself and others through different lenses, understanding the interplay between mind, body, spirit and environment and how all these parts of self need to be met with curiosity and understanding to help us to be in the world in the healthiest way possible for us.

People who show up to me for help with depression, Anxiety, addictions, grief,trauma,sleep disturbance etc… can expect to be met by a fellow human being who is determined to help you to come into a relationship with yourself in a way that can heal whatever wounds need to be met and healed.

Peter Levine the creator of Somatic Experiencing states “that trauma isn’t in the event it’s in the nervous system”,  meaning whatever has happened has happened but our suffering is the imprint this has left on our nervous system and this is what can be renegotiated in the here and now.

Qualifications and trainings include;

Foundation Degree in Counselling

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner

Somatic Experiencing assistant.

Gestalt Diploma

OCN level 4 in Trauma

Applied Risk Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

Mental Health first Aid

Introduction to Art therapy

Introduction to Psychodrama

Facilitative Self Help

WRAP training

First Aid

Safeguarding Adults and Children

Essential strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality with Ariel Giarretto

Coherence 360 workshop, Berns Galloway(advanced use of touch in somatic experiencing)

Peter Levine says

“Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.”

“The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.”

“Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness”