Teaching
Kairos Consultancy:
I have been teaching for nearly thirty years and have taught and led counselling and art psychotherapy courses at various levels, including Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate degree, Advanced Diploma, Post Qualifying Diploma, Diploma, Certificate levels.
Current teaching includes:
core tutor on a Post Qualifying Diploma in Counselling Children & Young People (CPCAB level 5), run by Phyllis Coulter Training in Belfast;
core tutor on a Post Qualifying Certificate in Creative Supervision (CPCAB level 6), run by Phyllis Coulter Training in Belfast.
Past teaching included: Art Psychotherapy (MSc & doctoral), Counselling (doctoral, masters, diploma, certificate), Postgraduate / Masters in Education, Postgraduate Medical Education. I offer significant experience in designing and teaching programmes.
Topics I offer training in include:
art psychotherapy / art therapy
counselling / psychotherapy
supervision praxis
working therapeutically with children & young people
creative reflexive practice
education, adult education
healthcare education
qualitative research
arts-based research approaches
appraisal / performance development
self-care for professionals
bespoke workshops
For examples, see:
I founded the first Master's level training in Art Therapy / Art Psychotherapy in Northern Ireland and led it since its establishment in 2002 at Queen's University where I was a Lecturer in Education (Special Needs), also teaching education, counselling and art therapy. I further evolved the MSc and established it at the Centre for Psychotherapy, Belfast HSC Trust. In 2015 I redesigned my course as Pluralistic and Trauma Informed Art Psychotherapy.. I later established it at another university, leading this until l retired as Senior Lecturer and programme leader in Autumn 2019. I continued to teach on the training until Autumn 2023 - I and a number of other tutors stepped away for ethical reasons. Since I retired, that course has been gradually reduced, significantly changed and led in another direction.
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