Tricia

Tricia is a founder member of AFFECT and currently is a member of the Board of Trustees (B of T) .She holds the post of secretary, counsellor and the training co-ordinator.

Tricia wants to promote and raise awareness of members of the public and of statutory and voluntary organisations, of the impact on a family when a crime is committed. To challenge and reduce the stigma attached to them as the result of a member of their family being incarcerated or detained under the mental health act.

Since her involvement with AFFECT, Tricia has developed links with other agencies delivering training, presenting workshops and study days to enable others to work with those whose family member is imprisoned, within their own organisational setting.

Tricia, a humanistically trained counsellor, has several years experience of teaching and counselling in this specialised field, which involves working with adults, children and group work. She also has a private practice and her client base involves working with a variety of issues, which have included: relationship difficulties, self harm, physical, emotional and sexual abuse, low self esteem, eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia nervosa, over eating, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, anger management. She works creatively with care and compassion and believes individuals have the power to change.

Tricia also works as a volunteer counsellor for SAGE a charity which works with older people. She counsels students and members of staff at a local college. She also teaches counselling skills and theory at two local colleges from basic to diploma level. She has also taught active listening skills to peer group school mentors, anger management groups and loss and bereavement, teaching Police Family Liaison Officers and VOICES (formerly SCOPE) and has addressed members of the Hampshire Association of Counsellors.

A member of the BACP she is bound by their ethical framework for good practice. She has personal, group and peer supervision for all her work. As part of her commitment to ongoing professional development she regularly attends courses, workshops, seminars and presentations. She also maintains a useful resource of books and videos which supports her work.

QUALIFICATIONS and Some Courses Attended:

Aftermath weekend seminars; Art therapy as a means of communication; Adier in practice - family education; Differentiation; Pursuit of Thinness; Introduction to Adier; Memory aging and narrative; Presswise, Dealing with the media; Working with young people; Self harm; Counselling older people, what's different; Intro to PTSD; Intro to couple and family therapy; Values attitudes and beliefs; Court support; Issues of attachment; Accreditation workshop; Life Review Sex Offenders Treatment Programme; Gestalt therapy day; Young problem gamblers; Setting up private practice; Growing old disgracefully; Secrets of successful parenting; Effective signposting. Bereavement, Loss; How to deal with difficult people; Pain management; Family changes, creative counselling; Child protection; Managing change in later life; Treating depression without drugs.