Kathleen Whelan
Member Status: Senior Accredited
Member No: NCS20-00884
Location: Wingate
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I am a qualified clinician, a registered BACP therapist, and hold a senior accredited membership with NCPS. I offer an array of knowledge and clinical experience working with themes around trauma (PTSD), CPTSD, bereavement, anxiety, stress and depression, to name a few. I am able to offer telephonic, face-to-face short, focused brief, and midterm or long-term intervention in counselling.
My roots stem from a background in teaching art spanning 20 years, eventually leading to qualifying for a career in counselling in 2016. My initial forays into the world of mental health materialized in my quest and inquiry for counselling training in 2010 and were supported when being employed as a Bereavement Service Lead Manager for a local children's bereavement charity while remaining to teach. This role found me working closely with bereaved children and their families who were ill-equipped to envisage a future without their loved ones, and it was within my role to help them make sense of their present and their future.
Since reaching seven years post qualification, I have enjoyed amassing a wealth of experience from working with young people, adolescents, and adults in private practice since 2017. As of 2019, I began working full-time as a telephonic counsellor and have not looked back since. In addition, in December 2020, I self-published and created using my art skills alongside my clinical knowledge and developed a grief model journal resource for young people aged 12-25, namely 'Grief Episode Guide For Teens’, which is being utilized by a multitude of charities, and mental health professionals, in schools and in private practice including the National Counselling Society.
In 2022, I completed a MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy. I’m enthused by the research element of this process as it focuses on the phenomenological interpretation of the components of psychotherapy.
Continuing my quest for professional development In January 2023, I embarked on supervisory clinical training and am now qualified. I opt for supervision bi-weekly in support of my clinical roles and work with both the BACP and NCPS ethical framework.
