Carol has been a counsellor of all ages from 5- 99 since 2006 and the owner and Director of learning for CB Counsellor Training since 2010. She holds a Level 3 in Teaching and Education alongside her counselling qualifications
She works in Private Practice, as the Lead Counsellor of East Surrey Counselling Group, running two counselling rooms in Godstone. Surrey, where the counsellors specialise in working with children and young people, alongside their adult work.
Previously Carol worked for Dialogue, YMCA Brighton & Hove as a school counsellor in both Primary and Senior schools and for Surrey Family Mediation Service as a Child and Adolescent Counsellor.
Previous roles whilst training to become a counsellor, include time as a Teaching Assistant and Therapeutic Learning Mentor.
Carol is both passionate about counselling for all ages but especially children and young people and providing reasonable priced training for fellow counsellors and has enjoyed CBCT becoming an OCN London Centre for Accredited Post-qualification Counselling Courses.
After starting out as a bereavement volunteer for Cruse Bereavement Care, Mary Clair worked for five years as a Special Educational Needs Learning Support Assistant in a mainstream state secondary school while undergoing her training as an Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counsellor.
Since 2010 she has worked in primary and secondary settings, day and boarding schools and in state and private education. As well as providing counselling within private practice and in schools, to children, young people and adults, she supervises secondary and primary counsellors and manages service delivery.
Her early training experience includes her posts as Training Facilitator for a children’s bereavement charity, and training young people in peer support for 11–25-year-olds for mental health charity, Mindfull. In recent years she has delivered staff bereavement training in schools across Croydon on behalf of Rowland Brothers Foundation, and Inset training to school staff on trauma, self-harm and many other aspects of mental health.
Bhavna, also known as Bav, has been a Counsellor for over 20 years and BACP accredited for more than 15 of those.
Her work includes counselling adults with addictions from BIPOC communities, counselling students in university settings and mental health (dual diagnosis work). She has also worked in the corporate field as an EAP case manager, dealing with anything from critical incidents to work related stress.
Her training includes an MSc in Counselling Psychology, and Level 5 in Counselling Children and Young People via CB Counselling Training Ltd. As a previous student of the L5 Counselling CYP course, Bav has a real insight and can fully understand the subtleties within the content of the course and the work involved in ensuring the students’ voices are heard and understood. She is also an EMDR Therapist.
In 2018, she set up a counselling service at an Independent Grammar School primarily for children and young people from Junior school, Senior school through to Sixth Form. She continues to work there and enjoys it immensely. The work includes all aspects of safeguarding and working alongside Junior and Senior school staff to ensure the pastoral support is next to none. She recognises the importance of the aspects of equity, diversity and inclusion, which she tries to bring into her work. She recognises now, more than ever, how much internal biases and intergenerational trauma can affect young people and therefore, she aims to try and highlight these, where appropriate, in all that she undertakes.
Richard has been a counsellor/psychotherapist for over 20 years and is a BACP accredited counsellor/psychotherapist and supervisor of individuals.
He is currently the Head of Student Counselling at a UK-based University, he oversees a team of counsellors which consists of core staff, term-time only staff, student counsellors on placement and sessional counsellors. Richard also organises and attends mental health events around the university and delivers mental health/wellbeing focused training and workshops to students and staff. He also supports other wellbeing orientated staff with monthly group reflective practice sessions and ad-hoc crisis/trauma support.
In combination with the above, Richard also runs a small private practice which he established in 2003 – he specialises in counselling/psychotherapy with adults, young people, children and couples of the LGBTQIA+ community. Richard also supervises counsellors as part of this private practice.
He has worked in many different settings over the years, including a GP surgery, a drug and alcohol recovery agency together with various schools and colleges.
Richard is a qualified teacher and has taught counselling, health and social care and early childhood studies since 2007. His main experience has been focused on teaching a BSc (Hons) in Counselling, although he has taught counselling from Level 1 to Level 7. Richard enjoys the academic process involved in teaching and wrote a BSc (Hons) which he then taught for 5 years, then reviewed the programme which was revalidated for a further 5 years.
Richard has been supervising for over 15 years and has supervised counsellors, both individual and group, in various settings with a multitude of models and approaches, he has also supervised other professionals, for example, social workers of children, teachers, child-protection officers, pastoral support staff, Disability and Neuroinclusion advisers and midwives. He brings his knowledge and understanding of supervising individuals and groups to our Level 6 course.
Suzanne qualified as a counsellor in 2006 and works with children, young people and adults. She has experience working in several forums including Schools, GP Surgeries, Charites and Private Practice. Suzanne specialises in working with Deaf, hard of hearing people and people with communication difficulties and holds a Level 3 in Teaching and Education, alongside her counselling qualifications.
Suzanne previously worked in education, social care and charity sectors assessing and supporting people to cope with a variety of issues for more than 30 years and now supporting parents is a particularly important part of her work. Suzanne is also a Supervisor of counsellors working with all age groups.
Suzanne runs parenting groups in schools and offers one to one support for parents and carers, believing this supports them to be able to meet their children’s emotional and physical needs.
She believes everyone can benefit emotionally and physically from having their own toolbox of skills, to support themselves and having worked with the profoundly deaf, Suzanne is a proficient communicator in sign language, which has been a useful skill not only for interpretation, but also in shifting her own thinking style to help her understand body language and nonverbal communication.