Teaching

Kairos Consultancy:

I have been teaching for over twenty five years and have taught and led counselling and art psychotherapy courses at various levels, including Doctoral, Masters, Post Qualifying, Diploma and Certificate levels.

I founded the first Master's 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). I further evolved the MSc and established it at the Centre for Psychotherapy, Belfast HSC Trust, and subsequently at Ulster University. I am still a member of the core teaching team of the MSc Art Psychotherapy at the Belfast School of Art, having semi-retired as its Course Director and Senior Lecturer in Art Therapy.

Other current teaching includes:

  • tutor on a Post Qualifying Diploma in Counselling Children & Young People (CPCAB level 5), run by Phyllis Coulter Training in Belfast;

  • tutor on a Post Qualifying Certificate in Creative Supervision (CPCAB level 6), run by Phyllis Coulter Training in Belfast.

I offer significant experience teaching and designing programmes at the following levels: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate degree, Advanced Diploma, Post Qualifying Diploma, Diploma, Certificate.

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:

Training
Candle Riga
Illumination (c)CS

"We who are together are one"

(c)CS dream

A core strand of practice is eARTherapy

- promoting eco-creativity and reciprocal caring relationship with and for the rest of Nature.

Newgrange
Threshold Stone, Newgrange