Credentials & Continued Professional Development

Holding professional qualifications, licenses and memberships are essential to ethical and professional practice in the field of counselling and psychotherapy. A reflective and effective practitioner also has a consistent approach to Continued Professional Development. At Sage Counselling & Wellbeing, we believe that it is important to regularly add to our effective counselling skills and knowledge through attending additional courses, workshops and seminars, through the reading of articles, journals and books. Some of the other ways that we enhance our professional competencies are through; the listening of relevant and topical podcasts, watching programmes and instructional videos, undertaking additional qualifications and licenses. Here at Sage Counselling & Wellbeing, CPD is a big part of what makes us successful, below you will find just some of the professional credentials held by Nicola.

Training to become a qualified counsellor began for Nicola in 2014, she continues to demonstrate a consistent approach to developing and enhancing her professional profile as a clinician in the field of counselling, psychology and mental health.

Professional Member of The British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy 

Enhanced DBS Checked

Fully Insured with Professional Liability & Indemnity Insurance 

Monthly Professional Supervision

Member of Counsellors UK

Qualified Member of Counselling Tutor Online CPD

Member of Better Help Therapists UK and International Division

2023 - 2025 Currently studying for an additional Diploma in Couples Counselling

2019 - 2020 Certificate in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

2016 - 2019 Level 4 Diploma in Integrative Therapeutic Counselling 

2015 - 2016 Level 3 Diploma in Counselling

2014 - 2015 Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills

2016 - 2026 Professional Liability & Indemnity Insurance 

2014 - 2026 Enhanced DBS Certificate

2014 - 2026 Registered with the Information Commissioners Office

2016 - 2026 BACP Membership held continuously.

2020 - 2026 BACP Registered Status following successful completion of the Certificate of Proficiency.  

2019 - 2020 Progressed to BACP Qualified Counsellor Membership

2016 - 2019 BACP Student Membership

Nicola frequently attends many Continued Professional Development training workshops, lectures and seminars, she has read countless books, academic journals and articles and regularly listens to psychology and mental health podcasts, all of which enhance her work as a competent and knowledgeable clinician. 

May 2024 May 2024 Cognitive Dissonance youtube.com

Apr 2024 Working with client burnout 2hr CPD Workshop 

Apr 2024 Recognising & working with Narcissistic Personality Disorder - 1.5hr CT CPD Lecture

Sep 2023 Understanding & Managing Stress for Therapists - 1.5hr CT CPD Lecture

Sep 2023 Understanding & Using Motivational Interviewing - 1.5hr CT CPD Lecture

Sep 2023 Exploring and Addressing Perfectionism - 1hr CT CPD Lecture

Sep 2023 Understanding Dissociative Disorders - 1hr CPD MMHA Seminar

Sep 2023 Working with Survivors of Narcissistic Abuse - 1.5hr CT CPD Lecture

Sep 2023 Overcoming Imposter Syndrome - 1.5hr CT CPD Lecture

Sep 2023 Working with Rejection - 2hr OE CPD Seminar

Jul 2023 Attachment - Development of Identity in Childhood - 0.5hr BACP Seminar

Jul 2022 Trauma and Brain Plasticity - 1.5hr CT CPD Lecture

Jul 2022 Introducing Creative Arts in Counselling - 1.5hr CT CPD Lecture

Jul 2022 Understanding Anxiety Disorders and Supportive Strategies - 1.5hr CT CPD Lecture

Jun 2022 Providing Time-Limited Counselling - 1hr CT CPD Lecture

Jun 2022 Working with Millennial Clients - 1.5hr CT CPD Lecture

Jun 2022 Working with Shame - 0.5hr CT CPD Lecture

Jun 2022 Understanding and Managing Loneliness - 1.5hr CT CPD Lecture

Jun 2022 Bereavement Awareness - 1.5hr CT CPD Lecture

Jun 2022 Working with Moral Injury - 1hr CT CPD Lecture

Jun 2023 Self-concept in Person-centred Therapy - 1.5hr CT CPD Lecture

Nov 2021 Understanding PTSD - 1hr CPD MMHA Seminar

Jan 2025 The Very Well Mind Podcast

Sep 2024 My Therapist Ghosted Me

Sep 2023 Therapy Natters - Understanding Autism

Jul 2023 The Richard Nicholls Podcast - Episode 202: Emotional Intelligence

May 2025  How does ADHD affect relationships and marriage? - adhdaware.org.uk/

Apr 2025 What is psychological injustice? - psychologytoday.com/

Feb 2025 Understanding Your Emotions Magazine 2nd Edition.

Jun 2024 ADHD - Hyperfocus - verywellhealth.com

Jun 2024 Overcoming decision fatigue in ADHD - psychologytoday.com

Sep 2023 What is anger? - Mind UK  - mind.org.uk/

Jul 2023 What Does it Mean to Be Neurodivergent? - verywellmind.com/ 

May 2023 Signs of Dismissive Avoidant Attachment - verywellmind.com/ 

Apr 2023 Why ADHD Awareness is Key to Action, Change & Progress - ADDitudemag.com/

Jan 2023 Dyspraxia (Developmental Co-ordination Disorder) in Adults - nhs.uk/

Jul 2021 Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - nhs.uk/

May 2025 - A History of Women in 101 Objects by Annabelle Hirsch

May 2025 - Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho

Apr 2025 - Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Mar 2025 - Narcissistic Personality Disorder by C. Lechan Goodman & B. Leff

Feb 2025 - Again Rachel by Marian Keyes 

Jan 2025 - Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Sep 2024 - Rachel's Holiday

Jul 2024 - Calm the F*&# Down by Sarah Knight

Mar 2024 - Understanding Obsessions & Compulsions by Dr Frank Tallis

Jan 2024 - Health Anxiety by Bob Wilson & David Veale

Oct 2023 - An Introduction to Coping with Depression by Lee Brosan & Brenda Hogan

Sep 2023 - An Introduction to Coping with Anxiety by Lee Brosan & Brenda Hogan

Jul 2023 - Scattered Minds by Dr Gabor Mate

Aug 2022 - Personal therapy: researching a knotty problem by A Grimmer

May 2022 - Achieving emotional literacy by Claude Steiner 

Dec 2021 - What do you say after you say hello by Eric Berne

Mar 2021 - Self-awareness & personal development: resources for psychotherapists.. by C. Rose

Feb 2020 - Reflective Practice in Counselling & Psychotherapy by B. Charleson

Jun 2019 - The therapeutic environment: core conditions for facilitating therapy by R.J. Hazler

Oct 2018 - Writing cures: Handbook of Writing in Counselling and Psychotherapy by S Bolton 

Apr 2024 Journal of Counseling Psychology. How does personal therapy affect therapists' practice?

Sep 2023 Healthcare Counselling & Psych. BACP Journal -NHS Workers: how therapy can help