VERY BRIEF PERSONAL HISTORY

I always wanted to train as a psychotherapist since I read John Bowlby’s book Attachment & Loss at the age of 16.  My Polish parents, who were incredible people, had endured the trauma of being prisoners of war. Their history underpins my life and taught me that people can endure more than they realise. 

 I was always active and my teenage years were spent  producing shows at school for charity, I ran a Social Action Group at Cassio College in Watford. At 19 I volunteered for the Samaritans on their Sunday afternoon telephone lines under the guidance of Chad Varah. From then I trained as a teacher of English and Drama.  I needed life experience to truly understand what I was reading. I needed to psychologically mature.  I knew I needed to learn more about life otherwise I would be repeating a theory and a process rather than truly engaging with a client in the process of transformation.   So I founded and developed a successful business Jongleurs comedy, the largest chain of comedy clubs in the UK.  While I ran my company I read a great deal including C G Jung, Joseph Campbell, Marie Louise Von Franz, Bruno Bettleheim, Victor Frankl and I have a whole library of prominent deep psychologists.  The mind has always intrigued me and I wanted to understand more. At the right time I trained as a psychotherapist with an MA in Psychotherapy and Healing, about psychological types in comedy.  I was then invited to do a PhD. I want you to know that  you can create something from nothing even without any advantages. When I work with you have confidence that I have done the work myself.  Whatever struggles you are encountering and today and many people have many problems, but  you can get through it  I will guide and support you.   I needed to understand more about life, the  struggles that everyone encounters are often unique to you; that is the  human condition, 

 

​My Voluntary Work has given me a great deal of knowledge in the arenas of mental health and wellness .

• VOLUNTEERED IN LEAVESDEN ASYLUM 

• CREATED AND RAN SOCIAL ACTION GROUP AT WEST HERTS COLLEGE (CASSIO COLLEGE) WATFORD

• TEACHER OF ENGLISH AND DRAMA - PHILIPPA FAWCETT, STREATHAM.

• SAMARITAN WITH CHAD VARA

• WOMEN IN BUSINESS BOARD FOR THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARD CHARITY

• ONE VOICE FOR FREEDOM CHARITY