Jane Hetherington

Qualifications and Training

I have an MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy from Metanoia Institute and an MSc in Mental Health, I have additional qualifications in working with anxiety and depression. I have trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (see NHS website), Motivational Interviewing, Brief Solution-Focused Therapy, Compassionate Mindfulness techniques and addiction psychology. I provide short term and longer term interventions.

I have trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (E.M.D.R.) www.emdrassociation.org.uk, an approach that is approved by the NICE guidelines for the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (P.T.S.D.), phobias and increasingly a wide range of other presentations.

I provide clinical supervision to both individuals and groups in a variety of settings and possess a diploma in integrative supervision.

I am British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) accredited www.bacp.co.uk, United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) registered www.psychotherapy.org.uk and a member of the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) www.babcp.com. These professional bodies require you to have completed an approved psychotherapy training, maintain professional insurance, adhere to an established code of ethics and abide by a recognised professional complaints procedure. It also means that I have regular clinical supervision, and undertake continuing professional development.

Open Dialogue

Over the course of the last 5 years I have been attending training in an approach to family work that originated in Finland in the 1980's and is called Open Dialogue. This approach has had extremely successful outcomes for a range of presentations and is currently being adopted as a way of working with psychological distress in a number of countries. I have been fortunate enough to attend the International Train the Trainer Course in Finland over 2 years and to be involved in the development of Peer Supported Open Dialogue in the UK.

I currently supervise the University of Kent’s welfare services and the Forward Trust’s Kent substance misuse services.