Alexandra Groves
B.A.Hon. criminal justice and psychology in Birmingham
Qualifications:
- 2.1.Criminal Justice with Psychology, Birmingham City University, 2009 Awaiting Verification
- Diploma level 3, ABC Contsortium, 2004 Awaiting Verification
- Comunity Paovanel Matters, Youth Offending Team, 2003 Awaiting Verification
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- Whatmore
Personal Profile
My journey has an trained professional counsellor started in 1996, when i went on a six week training counselling course. That when i decided to go to college to train.I look at society and i think it could work two ways postively or negatively! And i was able to look at my own life, where i lost my mother at a young age, my father married again and emigrated. I was an single parent with four children to bring up on my own. The vision was time to move forward and identify who i really am! Do i want to fail my children and myself any further.
In 1998 i decided to have counselling and over a period of time i started to see who i really am. I knew my purpose was to do with people, it was more easy to sort other people issues than my own. To be able to talk to someone to mirrow and reflect for me to look at my own issues was painful but also awsome i was now moving forward.
I decided to train has an counsellor the first year was vital to me because if i did not fufil the first year being an counsellor was not for me. I did fufil the first year and trained for six years further.
Because of my training and experiences i have work in a number of different organzation this experience was to give me the better understanding how society really works and that it not about going home and shutting the door not caring for others.
I have worked in Mental Health, probation, childrens insitutions, bail hostels, prisons just a few to mention. This experience gave me the tools to what direction and career directions i would take.
I went to university and fufil a degree in criminal justice and psycholgy and my aims in to become an criminal psychologist.My first career dedication is to be that counsellor i was called has my vision and purpose.
Over the years i felt my self-esteem and confidence improving and during all i could be able to help other people move forwrad in they lives.
To know that you can be somebody! and you are somebody is a very important growth especially in my life today and being an postive role model for my family,neighbourhood and society on an whole. Putting something back in to the community is very important aspect of my life.
Work Approach
When i first come in contact with clients i make it dutie not to think what appraoch i will be using with them. I will have meetings with clients.
I do regard myself has an psychadynamic counsellor but it think that every indivivdual has diffrent issues sometime diffrent approach may be used.
I do beleive that an lot of our issues are supressed in our childhood which sometimes can have an negative impact on our adulthood.
To be an counsellor and actually overcome loss and trumas in my own life,it is important for me as a counsellor to have achieved enough self-awarness and capacity to tolerate anxiety to be able to be fully present in relation to other clients.
I think to rather than regarding those areas of counsellor competence as fixed and statics. I personally think it is more useful to view them as part of developemental process. For me being an a counsellor is like being on a journey, which beings in childhood and also builds on early experiences and then on training to reach a stage of professional maturity.
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