Deborah Ging

• Manage a healing and recovery hub to foster strong connections among clients, and deliver healing and recovery programmes, workshops, and activities to groups, including Shark Cage and self-developed programmes.
• Attend fortnightly leadership meetings.
• Assist clients with one-to-one emotional support, advocacy, and psychological education using an integrated counselling skill set.
• Establish and maintain strong professional relationships with external organisations, stakeholders, and other relevant parties.
• Event planning and developing client healing workshops.
• Oversee and manage the counselling programme while overseeing qualified counsellors and trainees to enhance therapeutic guidance and training.
• Developed therapeutic frameworks and counselling procedures.
• Compile data to support comprehensive reports for funding applications.
• Provide individual tailored support to ensure clients experience stability in a set of nine confidential transitional housing units, while fostering independence.
• Produce and maintain confidential client information and client case notes, service delivery proceedures and organisational information documents using Share Point, Excel and Canva.
• Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.

Managed my own home-based counselling practice in a purpose-built log cabin in a secure, confidential area of my garden.

• Encouraged clients to become open and talk about their feelings using motivation, empathy, and support, utilising counselling skills, crystals, worksheets, and visual techniques.
• Created counselling and recovery plans for clients based on their individual needs and personal goals.
• I engaged with individuals, as well as family mediation and counselling.
• Confidentially recorded and stored client progress, changing treatment plans to provide high-quality client care.
• Participated in continuous professional development, keeping abreast of the latest counselling theories and practices.
• Worked within a person-centred approach, utilising psychological education to enhance my clients' recovery and progress.
• Attended regular supervision as required by my Governing Body.

• Delivered counselling services to clients who have experienced trauma as my chosen specialist area of professional development within various charitable organisations, as a qualified counsellor, and during my training and volunteering. I drew from various modalities to adapt to my clients' needs, working in an integrated way.
• Rasa Merseyside: Rape and Sexual Abuse Counsellor, Bootle. UK
• Fortalice: Domestic Violence Counsellor in a Refuge and Recovery Centre, Bolton, UK.
• Cruse Bereavement Care: Bereavement, Suicide, and Traumatic Deaths Counsellor. UK
• Trust House (Lancashire), Survivors' Trust, UK. Rape and sexual abuse. Preston. UK - Placement / Counsellor
• Sure Start Children's Centres, Preston, UK - Placement.
• Drugline, Preston. UK - Placement