About Me
Therapy helped me enormously when I needed it, and having an overwhelmingly positive experience is what set me on the path to undertaking my own therapy training. I've been working as a therapist since 1998, and in that time I've worked with a very wide range of people across many different backgrounds and difficulties. What I've learned over the past three decades is that no single approach fits everyone, and that the most important thing I can bring to any session is genuine attention to the person I’m working with.
How I Work
My foundation training is psychodynamic, which means I'm interested in the roots of things: how the past shapes the present, how early relationships influence the ones we have now. I work in an integrative way though, drawing on whatever feels most useful for each person. My work is influenced by attachment-based approaches, trauma work (including some EMDR-based interventions), neuroscience around trauma, and body-mind / somatic approaches, also creative methods such as therapeutic writing, journalling, or art. I don't offer these as standalone therapies, but they inform the work in ways that can be very helpful.
I am a Senior Accredited Member (SCoPEd Framework Column C) of both the BACP and the NCPS. I founded and direct Brighton Therapy Partnership (BTP) , a training organisation for counsellors and psychotherapists that now delivers training across the UK and internationally. Running BTP keeps me in close contact with the latest clinical thinking, which benefits the work I do with clients directly.
For counsellors and therapists: I also offer clinical supervision to qualified practitioners. If you’re interested in discussing supervision, please get in touch by email or via the contact form.
Qualifications
• BA (Hons) American Social Studies, University of Sussex
• MA Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex
• Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling, Level 7, University of Sussex
• Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Writing and Personal Development, University of Sussex
• Diploma in Clinical Supervision (including 7-Eyed Model training with Robin Shohet)
• Diploma in Management, Institute of Leadership and Management
• EMDR Qualifying Training Parts 1, 2 and 3 (EMDR Association UK and EMDR Europe approved)
• Certificate in Attachment Theory, The Bowlby Centre
• Certificate in CBT, Westminster Pastoral Foundation
• Certificate in Person-Centred Art Therapy
• Certificate in BodyListening: An Introduction to Deep Bodywork and Body Psychotherapy
• Certificate in Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector, City and Guilds
To get in touch, you can complete the contact form under the ‘Contact’ page or email me on shelleyholland@hotmail.com .
