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Qualifications
and training

MA PGCE PgDip

MNCPS (Acc.)

Stand Tall Therapy Online and Outdoors with Stephen Hall

Qualifications & training

I try to ensure that I build on my qualifications to place me in the best position to support my clients.

core Qualifications

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Education (English)

  • Master of Arts Degree (Development Economics)

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy.

specialist therapy training

  • ACTO Certificate in Online & Telephone Counselling

    • ​ACTO training supports secure, ethical online therapy

  • Diploma in Counselling Children & Young People

    • The Diploma builds on my existing work in schools and supports my ethical approach to working with young people.​

  • Extended Certificate in Pre-Therapy

    • Also known as Contact Work, this specialist training supports my work when people become dissociated.​

  • Contact-Oriented Psychotherapy in a Nature Setting

    • Supporting my work outdoors in Nature.​

  • Certificate in Private Practice

    • Helped me ensure I had everything in place to practice ethically under the Stand Tall banner.​

  • Certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies

    • Essential training for working with clients with a history of trauma.​

  • Certificate in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

    • ACT is a third wave CBT training which is more solution focused.​

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Professional Development

& TRAINING

I have to admit that I love doing courses. I am passionate about learning. It was an ongoing joke amongst my peers whilst I was training that I was never satisfied with doing just one course at a time. Below is a list of some of the more recent ones!

• Working with Men Programme with Connor Beaton, Duey Freeman & Michael Gay • NICABM Treating Trauma Master & Advanced Series • Using Compassion-Focused Therapy for Trauma • Compassionate Inquiry with Gabor Maté • Breathwork for Trauma • How to work with the Traumatised Brain • Working with Shame • Dealing with Distress - Working with Suicide & Self-Harm • Self Harm as Survival • Child Sexual Abuse - Hope for Healing • Cultural Responsiveness in Counselling & Psychotherapy • Working with Neurodivergent Clients Using the Autism Dialogue Approach • Alice in Wonderland Syndrome & Complex PTSD • Compassionate Inquiry with Gabor Maté • The Body Remembers - the interplay of regulation, self-care & vicarious trauma • Trauma-Informed Practice: Treating Complex PTSD • Exploring Trauma from a Person-Centred Perspective • Working with Relational Trauma: Dealing with Disorganised Attachment • Trauma, Dissociation & the Person-Centred Approach • Working with Dissociative Disorders in Clinical Practice • The Impact of Trauma at Different Developmental Stages • Relational Trauma, PCA & Neurodivergence • Suicide in Historically Marginalised Communities • EMDR & the PCA: Collaboration or Conflict? • Ultimate EMDR Toolkit - Level 1

TRAINING & EXPERIENCE

OUTDOORS

I have many years of working (and playing) outdoors. I have taken students to far flung countries and supported expeditions closer to home.  Ensuring I have the right training to work with clients therapeutically outdoors is important, Joining the 7 month Certificate programme in Contact-Oriented Psychotherapy in a Nature Setting through the Heart Wood charity has given me the space to reflect on my own relationship with Nature and how I can support clients therapeutically in the outdoors.

  • Two-day Outdoor First Aid Certificate

  • Expedition Leader Training - UK: Lake District & Snowdonia

  • Expedition Leader Training - Atlas Mountains, Morocco

  • Certificate in Contact-Oriented Psychotherapy in a Nature Setting - in progress through Heart Wood

  • Eco-Therapy 'Walk & Talk' Training

  • MTA Hill and Moorland Leader Training - in progress

  • Member of the Institute for Outdoor Learning's Association for Outdoor Therapy

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