Occupational Counselling Consultants (OCC)
with two specific objectives; to offer support tools enabling employers to optimise staff performance, particularly when circumstances – business or personal – are less than ideal and to provide individuals with access to Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring outside of their workplace, focussing on personal issues and challenges, managing change and work-life balance. Today, my focus is working with individuals as a Coach, Counsellor and Mentor from my practice in Brighton & Hove, and as a Consultant for organisations throughout the UK providing Coaching, Mentoring and tailored Training & Development Programmes for the key assets of any business – its people – equipping them with the tools and resources needed in order to embrace the challenges created by the constantly changing process of change within industry and commerce.
I qualified as a Counsellor in 1995 with the Metanoia Institute in London and as a Coach with the UK College of Life Coaching in 2004. I have trained as a Counselling Supervisor with the Institute of Person-Centred Learning (IPCL) and as a Mentor with The UK College of Life Coaching (UKCLC) and currently mentor students on the UKCLC Diploma in Life Coaching course. In addition I am a Mentor for The Prince’s Trust, working with young adults who wish to control their own destiny by creating their own businesses. I am an accredited Member of The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and a Graduate Member of the UK College of Life Coaching and adhere to their code of ethics and practice.
Prior to training as a Counsellor, Coach & Mentor I worked within the Media, Sales, Marketing & Recruitment Industries for twenty years, the last six years of that period was spent as a Board Director with a leading Media Recruitment Consultancy. I have contributed on radio, addressing the impact of redundancy in the work place, written a series of articles on “workplace” issues for “Esquire" Magazine and co-authored a chapter “Preparing for a Job” in “The Trainee Handbook – A guide for Counselling & Psychotherapy trainees” published by Sage in 1999 & 2005.
