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Welcome Everybody

EK Therapy aims to reduce barriers of access for individuals and communities that have experienced institutional and systemic issues within care systems, leading to the needs of people not fully being met within many mainstream services.

With an ethos embedded in Sikh Values of Oneness, honesty, non-judgement and universal truth, I strive to create a service that honours the perspectives and individualistic nature of those I work with.

EK Therapy has no criteria but you may find my experience useful if you're from the Global Majority, practice faith, religion or spirituality, you've found services hard to reach or you're a trauma survivor. You may simply be curious as to what my approach to healing can offer you.​
Clinical Experience

I work integrative in practice and pull upon theories from:
 
Creative Arts Psychotherapy and Drama Therapy
Somatic and embodied healing
Psychodynamic and Attachment-Based Models
CBT and DBT
Dyadic therapies including DDP
Trauma-informed practice
The Polyvagal Theory
Intersectionality, cross-cultural and Ethnocentric healing
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My previous therapeutic roles include:
 

  • Tier's 2-4 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services offering Individual, Group and Dyadic Drama Therapy and also CBT and DBT-informed models. This includes a secure hospital, Core CAMHS and substantial experience in specialist Looked After Children's Team (care-experienced children and young people).
     

  • A wide spectrum of issues including self-harm and suicidal ideation, disordered eating, sexualised behaviours, learning needs, Neurodiversity (ADHD and ASC), trauma and PTSD, and Emerging Personality Disorders. Additional to CAMHS, I've worked in a Youth Offending Service and a therapeutic school.
     

  • Adult Inpatient Services offering individual and group Drama Therapy for adults with a co-morbidity of Mental Health needs (e.g. Psychosis and Schizophrenia), Learning Disabilities and Neurodiversity.

My current therapeutic roles include:

 

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  • As a Regional Clinician for a nationwide care provider for care-experienced individuals, offering supervisory support and consultation to manage the complex needs of developmentally traumatised young people.
     

  • As a Practitioner for The Artist Wellbeing Company offering wellbeing spaces to cast and creatives in production for TV, film and theatre. My credits include wellbeing support on Antigone (Regents Park Theatre), Arabian Nights (The Bristol Old Vic), Liberation Squares (Fifth Word Theatre) and Vitamin D (Soho Theatre). I am currently supporting the creatives of King Troll (The Fawn).

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  • With private fostering agencies providing therapeutic support to care-experienced young people and their families.

 

Qualifications and Registrations

  • BA Acting (Hons), Academy of Live and Recorded Arts
     

  • MA Dramatherapy, University of Derby
     

  • Covid-19: Psychological First Aid, Public Health England
     

  • Registered Creative Arts Psychotherapist - Dramatherapist,
    The Health and Care Professions Council (AS 17080)
     

  • Professional Liability and Indemnity Insurance, Holistic Insurance
     

  • GDPR, Information Commissioner’s Office (ZB247404)
     

  • DBT-A Level 1, The Association for Psychological Therapies (APT)
     

  • CBT Essentials, APT
     

  • Dyadic Arts Psychotherapy Level One,
    British Association of Arts Therapists
     

  • Children's Accelerated Trauma Training (CATT),
    Trauma Psychology
     

  • Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Level 1 & 2, DDP Institute
     

  • Trauma-focused CBT, APT
     

  • Safeguarding Children Level 2, CPD Certified
     

  • Dance of Soma & Psyche Level 1, Embodied Psychotherapy Institute

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