About Mary
My training
I trained as a Sesame Drama and Movement Therapy in 1990 and for ten years used movement, story, and imagination to help people become more themselves. Examples where I worked as a Dramatherapist include:
- Children survivors of abuse (St Christopher’s Fellowship)
- Adults with Learning Difficulties (NHS)
- Adults in mental health care (Chapel Orchard Centre)
- Elders in residential and daycare (Roundabout)
- One to one Dramatherapy with adults (Private Practice)
In 2006, after completing a counselling course at the Westminster Pastoral Foundation, I trained with Re-Vision www.re-vision.org.uk/ and graduated as a psychotherapist.
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I am registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). You can check my registration at http://www.hpc-uk.org/ and at http://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/
I am a professional member of :
British Association of Dramatherapists
Re-Vision Counselling and Psychotherapy with a Soulful Perspective
Confederation of Analytical Psychology
I am supervised regularly. This means I discuss my client work with another professional but do not disclose any information such as names or places so it is confidential and supports good practice.
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A session runs for fifty minutes normally once a week at an agreed regular time. I work from an upstairs room in my home in Tulse Hill. The nearest tube is Brixton and then there is a five-minute bus ride with many choices of regular buses to take. My normal fee rate is £65 but I negotiate some concessionary rates to people in exceptional financial situations.
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I was a dramatherapy visiting lecturer at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Director of the Sesame Institute for Drama and Movement Therapy. My area of expertise is in the use of myths and fairy tales in therapy practice. I co-authored a book on this subject published in 2013.
I supervise both experienced and in-training therapists.
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When I am not working with people in a one-to-one setting, I am on the Re-Vision psychotherapy training team www.re-vision.org.uk and I also run a course called Psyche and Soma for qualified therapists wishing to train in the place of unknowing and soul-making through the Sesame Approach. There is more information about this on the - see the separate page, and on facebook www.facebook.com/psycheandsomacourse/
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Other bits about me
I am a Scot with strong ties to Ireland and all things Celtic. The way that people come to life, even in the direst of situations continues to inspire me, along with a deep belief that however hard a situation appears, something new will eventually emerge.
I am a singer, songwriter, storyteller and have a lifelong experience of using the folk arts within spiritual contexts.
My present special area of interest is to explore areas of creativity with people in the last stages of life, with Alzheimer's, or in a bereavement process. In addition, I have two black cats and a sunken garden, full of flowers.