AVIVA, AXA registered
As a qualified, skilled and experienced therapist, I can offer you safe, confidential, therapeutic consultation for:
-Addictions
-ADHD
-Adolescent issues
- Adoption and fostering
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder
- Child mediation
-Childhood issues
Death anxiety
-Dissociation and non-epileptic seizures
-Domestic violence
-Dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia
-Early attachment issues
-Eating disorders
-Educational issues
-Family disputes
-Gender identity
-Generalised Anxiety Disorder
-Health anxiety
-Panic
-Pre and perinatal concerns
-PTSD
-Schizophrenias and Psychoses
-Self-harm/suicidality
-Separation/divorce proceedings
-Social Anxiety
-Spiritual/religious dynamics
-Stress/anxiety/complex depression
Available by Zoom/Skype, phone or e-mail, supporting you through COVID-19 and beyond:
Skype: Helen.Holmes837/Zoom/Phone
Phone: 07952 717 951
E-mail: Helen.Holmes837@gmail.com
Qualifications, Accreditations, Academic experience and Continuing Professional Development:
BA. (Hons) Philosophy and Theology (Heythrop); BA. Law, Politics, English (first year); MA. Psychology of Religion; Clinical Supervisor; CBT-E (Oxon); MSc. Psychology (GMBPsS); MSc. Counselling Psychology (GMBPsS); BPC (Forensic Psychotherapy Society); Grad. Cert. Family Therapy (IOPPN, KCL) - Systemic and Family Practitioner (AFT); PGDiploma in Psychoanalytic Observation Studies and PGCertificate in Applied Social Studies (Tavistock); Diploma Therapeutic Counselling (CPCAB); Mentalisation Based Therapy (Basic), ADOS-2 (Intro, UCL); Experiential group and Reflective practice facilitator.
Fellow - Higher Education Academy; PGCE Higher Education (Psychology); QTLS (16+); Fellow - Society of Education & Training.
Selected Publications:
Author: 'Seeing God in our Birth Experiences: Pre and Perinatal Religious Development' (Routledge, 2020):
https://www.routledge.com/Seeing-God-in-Our-Birth-Experiences-A-Psychoanalytic-Inquiry-into-Pre-and/Holmes/p/book/9780367517557
Book Chapter: 'Contemporary Social Problems in the UK: A Comprehensive Overview' (Sage, 2023). Chapter: A domestic violence pandemic: outlining victim and perpetrator perspectives. In,
https://www.routledge.com/Contemporary-Social-Problems-in-the-UK-A-Comprehensive-Overview/Stanley/p/book/9780367764227
BACP article: 'Professional appearance: What to wear?'
This article first appeared in the January 2022 issue of Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, published by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. https://www.bacp.co.uk/bacp-journals/healthcare-counselling-and-psychotherapy-journal/ BACP 2022©
Please request a copy.
Website, Workshop, Newsletter: Featured poet 2021 (FPAA) - poetry and drawings.
Book Chapter: God Representations in a Pre and Perinatal Psychoanalytic Framework (2009) AIP, London.
Book: 'And then there was light' (2008) Poetry Anthology, Devotion Press, London.
Journal article APPAH USA: Birth of the living Gods? Exploring the pre-and perinatal aspects of religious development (2008). Journal of Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health, 22(4), 250-285.
Conference Review: ‘Religion and Sexuality’, (July, 2007) Numine Magazine.
Teaching related:
I have enjoyed facilitating many personal development workshops in London and presented internationally. I have written and taught popular psychology related courses at London School of Economics, Birkbeck College and City Literary Institute. I set up and managed a popular Masters-level, clinical project at the Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Kings College, where I have also been teaching difference and diversity for DClinPsych trainees. I am a trained reflective practice facilitator for NHS Trust staff groups. For seven years, I facilitated a Moslem/Non-moslem women's dialogue group. Following my first degree and whilst training in secondary education at the Institute of Education, I helped set up The Big Issue in London, working with street level, young homeless people.