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Qualifications and Experience

Beverley Williams

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Experience

  • Local Authorities: Children’s & Adult’s Services: Senior Occupational Therapist.

  • NHS: Team Lead OT-Ysgol-y-Deri Special School.

  • Private Practice, Independent OT: Specialising in trauma/attachment and sensory processing difficulties.

  • Case Manager: Working with families who have a child with a brain injury.

  • Holistic Therapist: Working with adults who have suffered trauma, mental health difficulties or chronic conditions.

  • Research Therapist: Treating therapist on the SENITA project (Randomised Controlled Trial).  Normative data collector for the EASI (Evaluation of Ayres Sensory Integration) assessment, and Deputy and Lead for Wales.

Qualifications

Academic

  • MSc Sensory Integration 2023

  • CASI-CLASI registered in Sensory Integration 2020

  • BSc (hons) Occupational Therapy 1998

Professional

  • Sensory Attachment Intervention Foundation Pt 1 & 2

  • Attachment: Parent Child Relationships

  • Child Attachment and Play Assessment (CAPA)

  • The Just Right State Children’s and Parent’s Programmes

  • The Just Right State for Adults 7 Adolescents

  • Use of Sensory Attachment Assessment and clinical Formulation Tools for Therapists.

  • A Trauma Informed Approach to Postural Control and Praxis

  • A Trauma Informed Approach to Touch- Certified

  • The Sensory Attachment Intervention fidelity Measure

  • Beacon House: Developmental Trauma for Professionals

  • Beacon House: Building emotional Regulation Skills in Children and Young People

  • Future Childcare Training: Understanding and working with Attachment Problems Level 1

  • Megan Foure: Baby Sense (PT 1,2 & 3)

  • ASI WISE: Sensory Integration and Mental Health

  • ASI WISE: Sensory Ladders

  • Is it Sensory or is it Behaviour

  • SIE: Sensory Feeding

  • The Alert Programme

  • Zones of Regulation

  • Animas: Transformational Life Coaching (ongoing)

Alternative & Complementary Approaches

  • Reiki Master/Teacher: Usui

  • Reiki Master/Teacher: Angelic

  • Advanced Crystal Therapist

  • Access Bars

  • Introduction to Energy Medicine

  • Emmett: Part 1

  • Vagus Nerve acupressure

  • Herbalist Certificate

  • Meditation/Mindfulness

  • Shinrin Yoku (ongoing)

Member of regulated bodies/Essential Requirements

  • Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT).

  • The Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC)

  • BABICM (British Association of Brain Injury & Complex Case Management).

  • Advanced Safeguarding: Children:  Updated Biannually

  • Advanced Safeguarding: Vulnerable adults; updated Biannually

  • Enhanced DBS: update service

Qualifications

Academic

  • BSc (Hons) Psychology

Professional

  • Motivational Interviewing Practitioner

  • Connect 5

  • Principles of CBT

  • Therapeutic approaches to challenging behaviour

  • Attachment Theory

  • Loss and Bereavement

  • Dementia Champion

  • DIR Model

  • Is it sensory or is it behaviour?

  • Mental Health Awareness

  • Substance Misuse

  • Perinatal Mental Health

  • Self-Harm and Suicide Awareness

  • ACE Training

  • Circle of Security

  • Healthy Eating and Nutrition

  • A Therapeutic Approach to Domestic Violence

  • A Therapeutic Approach to Hoarding

  • Engaging and motivating teenagers

  • Responding to victims and safeguarding

  • Understanding Perpetrators

  • Protective behaviours

  • Sexually harmful behaviour

  • Association of Psychological Therapies: Acceptance & commitment

Essential Requirements

  • Advanced Safeguarding: Children

  • Enhanced DBS

Kelly Lewis

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Experience & Achievements

  • Support in Torfaen Challenging Behaviour Unit, Lead for Advice and Behaviour Support for a mainstream school in Torfaen.

  • Childcare support worker Children’s Services: Children with Disabilities Team.

  • Child and Families practitioner for POBL Housing.  Wellbeing facilitator for POBL Housing.

  • Child Recovery Officer for Phoenix Domestic Abuse Service.

  • Facilitator of project CARA in collaboration with Gwent Police and Safer Merthyr Tydfil.

  • Project lead for 'The Book of Strength' a therapeutic resource for children and families.

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