I have worked at the University since 2015, where I have delivered training on the MA in Counselling Studies and the BA (Hons) in Counselling Skills. My primary teaching responsibilities at the University are on our two professional doctorates in the Division, the DProf in Counselling and Psychotherapy and the DProf in Psychological Trauma. These two programmes are delivered online, the first two years as a taught programme, and the second two years and onwards as a research programme, leading to a doctorate.

These programmes interest students internationally and in the UK, with a background in counselling, psychotherapy, trauma and other health-related professions as well as management. These are successful programmes with many students already having graduated with their doctorate from the University.

I am also supervisor for a number of PhD students in counselling, psychotherapy and psychological trauma, whose research interests are varied, including, parental support following child death, youth justice, the impact of Covid-19, chronic pain and its impact on self-concept. Again, our doctoral programmes for PhD are very successful, with high success rates over the last few years. Our PhD and DProf students, taken together, represent one of the UK's largest doctoral cohorts in counselling, psychotherapy and psychological trauma, ensuring the University maintains its reputation for teaching, practice and research excellence in our discipline.

Beyond the University I have delivered practitioner-based training to over 30,000 professionals over a 25-year period. Including counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers, teachers, psychologists, nurses, general practitioners, psychiatrists and others, my teaching has focused on ways of working therapeutically with suicide risk in helping relationships, as well as work around self-injury and self-harm, ethics, general mental health areas and men's mental health.