Marie Angela

A Family Intervention Practitioner and Psychotherapist with twelve years' experience supporting families presenting with multiple and complex needs. A passionate and enthusiastic practitioner with a proven track record of delivering support packages to vulnerable individuals and families from a range of backgrounds, with a variety of complaints. Therapeutically trained; qualified in BABCP, CBT, REBT, IAPT, NLP and EMDR.

Skilled in carrying out assessments, formulations, interventions and their evaluation. Provides intervention at times of crisis, offering support as well as mediation between families and professional. Uses therapeutic methodology focusing on evidence-based practice, using a holistic approach and the family wellbeing model.

CBT Psychotherapist - Ascenti

(2023-09)

Working as a part time employer for Ascenti has provided security within employment. Having transferable skills with the ability of promoting CBT, IAPT, REBT and EMDR to members who were involved in Road traffic accident has helped deliver quality of therapeutic intervention. Found promoting CBT, IAPT REBT and EMDR extremely rewarding especially supporting clients who suffer with post traumatic disorder and require trauma focused therapy, CBT, EMDR or REBT therapy which help individuals process and heal from traumatic experiences.

Clients gain acceptance and are able to move on and overcome their fears and confront their problems within the therapeutic treatment plan. Clients are provided with didactic explanation and Socratic questioning in order to assess their thinking styles to identify whether their thoughts appear irrational or rational. Clients are provided with a structured agenda setting.

• Assessment, Risk assessment Elicit goals, psychoeducation, managing worries, review thoughts, identify whether thoughts appear negative or positive, rate core belief, challenge core belief and implement new healthy rational principles
• Build hierarchy to identify things clients can do to address most challenging issues they may experience along with carrying live exposures task of driving and gaining confidence
• Enable clients to gain back their control adopting useful distraction strategies to help reduce their level of feelings and revert to gaining intellectual insight and emotional gains

CBT Psychotherapist - Vita Health - Remote working

(2023-04 - 2024-02)

Working remotely as a qualified psychotherapist for Vita Health mental health service, has been found to be rewarding. The work involves providing Cognitive Behaviour therapy and Rational Emotive therapy to children and adults treating all ranges of symptoms. Clients are taken through the assessment procedure assessing the presenting issue and identifying their triggers whilst eliciting the clients' thinking styles, feelings and behaviours.

Members are provided with a treatment plan during therapy. All treatment are in line with BABCP, DSMIV & NICE guidelines. Clients are able to obtain emotional and intellectual gains. Complete the initial assessments which allows to determine what feelings the clients are experiencing and to identify whether their thoughts are rational or irrational.

All skills and experiences are transferable helping clients to regain back their control and management.

• Attend fortnightly clinical supervision
• Record all clinical reports such as progress reports, Interim and discharge reports, risk assessments, safety plan reports and experience service questionnaire using Psychometric measures
• Promote Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and Rational emotive therapy (REBT) to all children and adults
• Work with clients who experience Low mood, Depression, ADHD, Anxiety, social anxiety, Generalised anxiety, panic, OCD, Drug misuse, Phobias, Sleep, and Health anxiety, Suicidal ideation
• Provide Psychoeducation to understand the unhealthy themes that trigger their feelings, i.e. over worrying, thinking the worst
• Provide a range of strategies to help gain control and management consisting of relaxation techniques, managing worries, challenging core beliefs and implementing new healthy rational principles and completing homework tasks

Psychotherapist (Sessionary remote working) - Priory - Remote

(2022-06)

Working as a Psychotherapist within the Priory has been a great pleasure. The work involves providing Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Rational Emotive Therapy to adult patients that require mental health support to all ranges of symptoms. Members are provided with a treatment plan, whereby the process of promoting CBT and REBT are delivered in a therapeutic process in order for clients to gain back their control and manage efficiently.

All treatments are in line with BABCP, NICE & DSMIV guideline. The models that are delivered are, IAPT - CBT & REB models. Members have resulted to obtaining the knowledge and understanding of applying the techniques when their faced in a situation and found helpful to be able to gain control and manage sufficiently.

Currently work with the Priory on a sessional basis providing therapy to adult clients who have moderate to severe mental health issues.

• Work remotely providing cognitive behavioural therapy CBT to adult patients and promote Rational emotive behavioural therapy (REBT)
• Complete the initial assessments which allows to determine if CBT is suitable and proceed to treat the patient
• Attend fortnightly clinical supervision
• Record all clinical reports such as progress reports, Interim and discharge reports, risk assessments, safety plan reports and experience service questionnaire using Psychometric measures
• Promote Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and Rational emotive therapy (REBT) to all adults
• Work with clients who experience Low mood, Depression, ADHD, Anxiety, social anxiety, Generalised anxiety, panic, OCD, Drug misuse, Phobias, Sleep, and Health anxiety, Suicidal ideation
• Provide Psychoeducation to understand the unhealthy themes that trigger their feelings
• Provide a range of strategies to help gain control and management consisting of relaxation techniques, managing worries, challenging core beliefs and implementing new healthy rational principles and completing homework tasks
• Work on exposure tasks whereby clients are exposed to their triggers and guided with applying their strategies to help overcome their fear
• Conduct Psychometric scores to track how the client is feeling consisting of RCADS, GAD7, PHQ9, Honosca self-assessment and many more
• Complete all risk assessments, Datix and safety plans when risk are reported and hold discussions with the safeguarding leads

Sessional Psychotherapist - One Bright Mental Health

(2020-12 - 2025)

Working as a sessional psychotherapist within One Bright Mental Health has provided a wider expansion of skills and experience to assess members who have been involved with collisions, road traffic accidents, or problematic issues that have had an impact upon members mental health and their daily functioning. Hold a full BABCP accreditation and work in line with BABCP guidelines. Work also in line with NICE & DSM1V guidelines and principles when promoting and delivering CBT.

• Promote Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and Rational emotive therapy (REBT) to all adults
• Work with adult clients who have experienced a wide range of mental health issues, including treating clients who have been involved in collisions and road traffic accidents
• Assess how collisions and road traffic accidents have impacted mental health and daily functioning and provide treatment
• Work with clients who experience Low mood, Depression, ADHD, Anxiety, social anxiety, Generalised anxiety, panic, OCD, Drug misuse, Phobias, Sleep, and Health anxiety

New start housing LTD & MYnd Matters

(2022-08 - 2024-09)

CBT Therapist - Havering CAMHS (on behalf of Blackford agencies)

(2019-04 - 2022-04)

Liaison Diversion Mental Health Officer - Waltham Forest Council

(2018-12 - 2019-04)

Family Intervention Practitioner - Tower Hamlets Family Intervention Service

(2007-08 - 2018-07)