Experience

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  Ogilvy & mather

  Nov 2012 - Nov 2015

  Global strategist
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  St christopher's

  Nov 2015 - Apr 2017

  Palliative care worker
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  Royal trinity hospice

  Jan 2017 - Apr 2018

  Healthcare assistant
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  West london nhs trust

  Sept 2017 - May 2018

  Honorary art psychotherapist

  Co-facilitating inpatient art psychotherapy groups within an acute assessment unit, and sole-facilitating an art psychotherapy group in a community-based short stay house, offering people experiencing a mental health crisis an alternative to a hospital stay.

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  Single homeless project (shp)

  Oct 2018 - May 2019

  Honorary art psychotherapist

  Working across two hostels managed by SHP. One hostel for young people aged 17-21 who were experiencing homelessness, and another hostel for adults who had been homeless and who had also received a diagnosis of a mental health problem. I set up and facilitated the art therapy service in both hostels, facilitating open art therapy groups and individual art therapy sessions.

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  Providence row

  Jul 2019 - Sept 2019

  Honorary art psychotherapist

  Co-facilitating a closed, time-limited art therapy group in a Day Centre for people who have been homeless.

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  St christopher's

  Aug 2019 - Aug 2021

  Community artist

  Working three days a week facilitating art groups (in person pre-pandemic, online post-pandemic) for patients and community members at St Christopher's Hospice. I co-ordinated art projects and other creative initiatives, working as part of a multidisciplinary team to best support people accessing the services of St Christopher's.

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  Harris garrard academy

  Sept 2019 - Feb 2022

  Art psychotherapist

  Working two days a week in a linked Primary and Secondary school, providing individual art therapy sessions, and group intervention for bereavement, to children aged between 5 and 18.

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  Blossom house school limited

  Sept 2021 - now

  Art psychotherapist

  Working three days a week in a specialist independent day school for children with speech, language and communication difficulties. Working across linked Primary and Secondary schools, at the school's Euston site. Providing individual art therapy sessions to children and young people aged between 5 and 18.

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  South london and maudsley nhs foundation trust

  Feb 2022 - Feb 2023

  Specialist art psychotherapist

  Working as part of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) and Psychology in Hostels Service, as part of a service that delivers creative ways of working with multiply disadvantaged and excluded homeless populations. The Psychology in Hostels (PiH) service is provided by SLaM in close partnership with a selection of third sector charity accommodation providers.This was a two days a week maternity cover post, based in two Westminster homeless hostels, involving facilitating both Art Psychotherapy groups and individual Art Psychotherapy sessions. Show less

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  Mind

  Sept 2023 - Jul 2024

  School counsellor

  Working one day a week in a secondary academy. Providing 1:1 counselling to academy students.