My desire to be a Counsellor is born out of a passion to help people who are struggling with trauma and emotional and psychological distress as a result of upbringing, choices or unexpected life events.
My personal journey began growing up in a small town in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and whilst idyllic in many ways, life posed far more challenges than the eye could see. Being heavily involved in a Bible based cult for many years with all its control, coercion, ostracism and confusion resulted in emotional and psychological trauma, for many, in ways that can be hard to articulate.
Reflecting back, it was this experience and studying Sociology that started a keen interest in why people do what they do and what makes them who they are. However, due to limited counselling training opportunities in Zimbabwe, I entered the corporate world and it was only after relocating to the UK over twenty five years ago that I decided to follow my passion and retrain as a Counsellor/Psychotherapist.
Whilst completing my Counselling Degree and Masters I worked in private practice as well as an Associate volunteer for a well-established local counselling charity. Once the Masters was complete I concentrated on private practice and broadened my skills to include working as an Associate Tutor for Waverley Abbey College on their BA programme, Group Supervisor and lectured when possible, whilst expanding my work with trauma and spiritual abuse/cult survivors. Currently, whilst running Compassion Restoration, I have the pleasure of facilitating cult survivor support groups, trauma training and Therapist training on spiritual/religious abuse, cult dynamics and survivor recovery.
