CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DETAILS
Name: Miriam Grace Date of Birth: 14.7.65
Address: Telephone: 07969 092362
11 Ranmoor Chase
Riverdale Road,
Sheffield, S10 3FA E-mail: miriam@blue-skies.org.uk
Nationality: British Website: www.blue-skies.org.uk
ACCREDITATIONS
UKCP Registered Psychotherapist September 2002
BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor March 2001 (Senior in 2007)
BACP Senior Accredited Supervisor October 2001 (Senior in 2007)
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Diploma Person Centred Counselling September 1990 – June 1993
With a specialist focus on Bereavement and Loss
at the Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute (SPTI), Nottingham.
Qualified: June 1993 (Distinction)
Diploma in Clinical Supervision
SPTI, Nottingham September 1993 – June 1995
Completed: June 1995
Post-Graduate Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy
SPTI, Nottingham January 1990 – March 1995
Qualified: June 2002 (Distinction)
Master of Arts in Humanistic Psychotherapy
SPTI, Nottingham & Derby University September 2003 – July 2004
Qualified: November 2004 (Merit)
Certificate in Life Coaching
Newcastle College, accredited by NCFE May-October 2005
Qualified: October 2005
Certificate in Psychosynthesis for Personal & Professional Development
Avalon Psychosynthesis,
Glastonbury June 2012 – December 2014
Completed: December 2014
CURRENT POSITION
Psychotherapist in Private Practice 1990 – 2019 (29 years)
SUPERVISORY:
Groups and individuals in
training
NHS
private practice
prison service
Social Services
hospice
domestic violence refuge
other voluntary sector
Academic supervision
Recently supervisor for all crisis workers and advocacy staff at SV2 (formerly Derbyshire Rape Crisis), running 5 supervision groups. I had to suspend this work due to my own cancer treatment but was assured of a warm welcome when I’m ready to return. The commute and evening hours are currently not workable for me.
CLINICAL:
Individuals (including children):
Private practice
Derby Rape Crisis
Derby Alcohol Problems Advisory Service
EAP work
Core Assets Family Therapy
Sheffield Hallam University, Well-being Service
Couples
Private practice
EAP
Co-working with Peter Fantini, Andy Fookes, Mike Talbot
Groups
2 year weekly women’s therapy group with Deborah Short
4 year weekly therapy group solo facilitator
2 year weekly therapy group with Tim Carette
Weekend therapy groups solo, with Tim and with Deb
Weekly Laughter Yoga Group 2013 – 2014, Derby
Inner Voice Meditation Group 2012 – 2014, Derby
Millennium Mothers Group – 2000, Derby
Online Coaching Groups
Working in hospitals in multi disciplinary settings with psychiatric care
SUPERVISORY:
Recently supervisor for all crisis workers and advocacy staff at SV2 (formerly Derbyshire Rape Crisis), running 5 supervision groups. I had to suspend this work due to my own cancer treatment but was assured of a warm welcome when I’m ready to return. The commute and evening hours are currently not workable for me.
Also supervised since 1994 groups and individuals in
training
NHS
private practice
prison service
Social Services
hospice
domestic violence refuge
other voluntary sector
Academic supervision
TEACHING:
BSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy Principles and Practice
University of Derby 2015 -2016
Designed, collaborated, wrote and took to validation
Post Graduate Diploma in the Psychotherapy of Trauma
University of Derby 2015
Designed, collaborated, wrote and took to validation
Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Supervision
University of Derby Online 2012 -2013
Course Tutor
Foundations of Supervisory Practice
University of Derby Online 2012 -2013
Course Tutor
Supervisory Practice Within Organisations
University of Derby Online 2012 -2013
Course Tutor
Developing Supervisory Practice
University of Derby Online 2012 -2013
Course Tutor
Assessment in Cognitive Behavioural Practice
University of Derby Online 2012 -2013
Course Tutor
Independent Studies PG level 7
University of Derby Online 2012 -2013
Supervisor, marker, moderator of dissertations (mental health subjects)
Diploma in Humanistic Counselling
University of Nottingham 2005 -2006
Course Tutor
Treatment of Trauma
University of Vilnius, Lithuania 2015
Visiting lecturer for 3 day workshop
Working with Borderline Process
University of Derby – MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy 2013
Visiting lecturer for 1 day workshop
Sexuality
Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute 2012
Visiting lecturer for 2 day workshop co-run with Tim Carrette
WORKSHOPS RUN:
Awakening Retreat 2015
Therapist for a 3 day themed group therapy residential in the Cotswolds
Love 2015
Creator and facilitator 1 Day Group Workshop, Derby
Happiness 2015
Creator and facilitator 1 Day Group Workshop, Derby
Body- Mind Workshops 2013 – 2014
Created and run with Alexander Teacher, Imogen Ragone
2 x 1 day workshops, Woodlands Centre, Derby
Life Awakening 2014
Original workshops co-facilitated with Jillian Schofield
10 x 1 day workshops, 2 x follow up days, 1 x introductory day
200 page workbook developed and published from this concept
Derby Talks 2013
Guest speaker introducing the Life Awakening concept
Sexuality 2012
2 day workshop in Wirksworth co-run with Tim Carrette
Group Dynamics, Communication, Team Building
Royal Derby Hospital Chaplaincy Service 2004 -2005
Visiting group facilitator for 2 x 3 day workshops
Counselling, Advanced Counselling, Sexual Abuse
Derby Rape Crisis 1990 – 1998
Volunteer co-ordinator and trainer
Ran volunteer training, later supervised others to run the training. Wrote, recruited, delivered 12 week courses including Asian Women’s Training
Love, Sex and Relationships 1996
2 day workshop in Nottingham at SPTI co-run with Tim Carrette
Anger 1996
2 day workshop in Nottingham at SPTI co-run with Tim Carrette
Breathing Space in Your Work with Sexual Abuse 1993 -1994
2 day workshop Nottingham Social Services co-run with Jane Masters
2 day workshop Derby Women’s Centre co-run with Jane Masters
Welcoming the Goddess 1993
2 x 2 day workshops Derby Women’s Centre co-run with Deborah Short
2 hour workshop at the Women and Mental Health Conference, Nottingham
Counselling Skills, Sexual Abuse, Telephone Counselling, Self Care
Cambridge Rape Crisis 1992 – 1994
Visiting trainer for several 2 day workshops
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Personal Therapy 1988 – 2016
approx. 14 years various orientations (group & individual)
Further Training:
Zero Balancing UK: Currently on-going training – suspended for health reasons
At SPTI
• Dr Richard Erskine Integrative Psychotherapy
96 hours
• Day seminars including, Lynne Jacobs, Susie Orbach, Gary Yontef
Selection of Recent Workshops Attended:
Working with LGBT*Q Clients
WPP, Cardiff, April 2016 (2 days)
Hypnotherapy (BACP Endorsed Training)
NLP Vision, Leicester, January 2015 (3 days)
Personality Disorders with Dr. Elinor Greenberg
WPP, Cardiff, July 2013 (3 days)
Writers Workshop with the British Gestalt Journal
Nottingham University, June 2013 (3 days)
The Somatic Body
London, October 2012
CBT Interventions for Trauma
Nottingham Centre for Trauma Studies, July 2012
Infant Movement Development & Authentic Movement
Institute for Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy, London, May 2012
Working with Attachment Disorders
Child Centre for Metal Health, London, January 2012
Andrew Samuels UKCP Chair: “It’s all about the relationship…”
Derby, October 2011
ADMINISTRATIVE, IT, COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
I consider myself to be a writer and to have excellent written and oral communication skills. I have an A level in English Literature and previous work in typesetting, proof-reading, editing and journalism. I am an experienced public speaker and have a good level of research skills.
My business skills are many and varied: accounts and book keeping; record keeping; confidentiality and data protection; keeping insurance and memberships renewed; appointment and diary management; writing references and solicitors reports; issuing invoices; responding to emails and telephone enquiries; attending meetings with other professionals and organisations for whom or with whom I work.
My IT skills mean I use Skype, Zoom and email for supervision and therapy, attend meetings online, update my own website, produce you tube clips, blog on the topic of therapy and mental health, use online diary, excel, word, email on a daily basis. I am comfortable with social media for example, I have a therapy facebook page, use Hootsuite, Twitter, Word Press and Mailchimp.
I am a car owner with a clean licence since 1985.
Publications
Life Awakening The Workbook 2014 (from a series of workshops I authored)
PERSONAL STATEMENT:
I believe I have the experience, knowledge, maturity and personality to make me a valued colleague and an inspirational and informative clinician and lecturer. It is a great pleasure for me to work alongside people who hold the values of psychotherapy dear and who welcome open-minded exploration of the field.
In my recent work creating a BSc in psychotherapy, I was the principal writer of the programme, module specifications and currently lesson plans, though I did this in collaboration by meeting with other staff. My role has also included interviewing students, writing, marketing and attending validation events. We received many commendations at validation for innovation, passion and creative teaching approaches.
I want students to feel as passionate about psychotherapy as I do. I began my own training in 1988 and undergone several in depth trainings and qualifications myself, with ongoing personal therapy, clinical supervision and CPD. I have emerged from this process with a breadth of knowledge and experience that has taken nearly 3 decades to amass and a belief that acceptance and compassion are not only profoundly healing but radically political. The therapeutic relationship is all about meeting and accepting ‘otherness’ and supporting a person to become authentic, unique and accepting or compassionate towards their own self. Thus self-reflection in my students, clients, my supervisees and myself is crucial. As such I have designed new, creative approaches to learning therapy which come from a diversity aware /self-reflective debate stance, teaching critically evaluative rigour within trainees from the outset. I model this questioning myself and believe myself to be reflective and responsible in adopting theory or pedagogy only through questioning, research and my own and colleagues’ experience.
I am experienced at marking and moderating assignments, including those undertaking level 7 Independent Studies dissertations. Work at University of Derby online required a high level of IT skill and confidence as well as learning new skills, some of which can be used innovatively in other settings. At Nottingham University, I taught students in Humanistic Psychotherapy theory and skills and I wrote lesson plans, assessed essays and student presentations, undertook student tutorials as well as running group process. I have been a supervisor since 1994 and run supervision groups and see individual supervisees, many of who are students. I have specialist training in groups, couples, and supervision which I use in my teaching work.
I have worked in private practice for 26 years, working with individuals, couples, families and groups and run workshops at conferences in the UK and abroad. My client group has been diverse and multi-cultural. I have also worked for CORE Assets with families and young people. I am a founding member of the International Gestalt Special Interest in Gender and Sexual Diversity Group.
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