Masha Bennett

Personal Profile

Professional experience

My experience includes work in the criminal justice system (prison and probation service), in the drug & alcohol treatment field (I was a drug treatment manager at HMP Styal, a women's prison), adult education, mental health and wellbeing.
In my work for the Big Life group I developed and managed an innovative Well Being Centre in Stockport between 2006-09.
Currently I combine my private psychotherapy and training practice with work as a therapist with the NHS.

EFT Mentoring

I offer EFT Supervision and Mentoring to groups, individually and by telephone (mentoring is an essential CPD requirement for all AAMET Practitioners). , I am offering half-price sessions to both qualified practitioners and students of EFT until the end of 2010.

Memberships:

UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy) - Registered Member No.09160733        AAMET (Association for Advancement of Meridian Energy Techniques) - Member No. 1004028 NLPtCA (Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy & Counselling Association) - Accredited Member           FDAP (Federation of Drug & Alcohol Professionals) - Member No.1255                                            NWRPA (North West Regional Psychotherapy Association)                                                                 EMDR UK & Ireland Association - Member No. B106                                                                             BABCP (British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies) - Trainee Member No. 100179                                                                                                                                                         Humanitarian Assistance Programme UK & Ireland - Member                                                            Institute for Learning - Affiliate Member No. AD036109

Qualifications

* AAMET Advanced EFT Practitioner
* AAMET EFT Trainer (teaching in 7+ countries)
* Postgraduate Diploma in Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy
* NLPtCA Accredited Neurolinguistic Psychotherapist - UKCP Registered
* Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (to be completed 2010)
* EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing) - Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Certificates, working towards accreditation with the EMDR Association
* NLP Master Practitioner
* The Open University Diploma in Health & Social Care
* Professional Development Award in Creative Therapy
* Certificate in Hypno-Psychotherapy
* TAT (Tapas Acupressure Technique) Practitioner
* EmoTrance Practitioner
* FREEWAY-CER Practitioner
* Certificate in Sexual Minority Therapy (Gay Affirmative Therapy)
* Certificate in Executive Coaching
* Home Office Accredited Drug Treatment Programme Facilitator
* Home Office Accredited Drug Treatment Manager
* Certificate in Teaching Adult Learners
* BSc (Hons) Plant Science
 

Skills

I work with addictions, anxiety, PTSD, phobias, pain management, insomnia and many other issues.

You can download a free EFT chart on one page, as well as a free copy of my "Pocket Guide to EFT for Addiction Treatment, Self-help & Recovery" from my website here: http://www.practicalhappiness.co.uk/pages/documents-downloads.php

I teach AAMET certified EFT courses in English and Russian in several countries in Europe and Asia, and have developed a specialised training programme on EFT applications for addiction treatment the details of which can be found here www.eft4addictions.co.uk.
I regularly give talks and presentations at various conferences and symposia in the UK and abroad - I was one of the speakers at the EFT Gathering in Ilkley at the end of January 2010. I am an executive committee member of the UK EFT Research Group www.eftresearch.co.uk.

In the UK my EFT training workshops take place mainly in Manchester area and in London, and I also deliver in-house training for organisations. Once a year I teach a specialised workshop on EFT for Eating Disorders in collaboration with the National Centre for Eating Disorders www.eating-disorders.org.uk. I also travel regularly to teach EFT in Norway, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Israel, Slovenia, Kazakhstan, and in 2010-2011 will also be teaching in Germany, Finland and Indonesia (Bali).

My websites are:
http://www.practicalhappiness.co.uk
http://www.eft4addictions.co.uk

My blog on Wired In Online Community:
http://wiredin.org.uk/member/profile/661
Background Information

Work Approach

My main therapeutic approach is Neuro Linguistic Psychotherapy & Counselling, which is a specialised form of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), based on the idea that we “construct” our own reality.

NLPt therapist/counsellor works on the basis that each one of us builds our own unique “models” or “maps” of the world around us and, although such maps are genuine and real to us as individuals, no one’s “map” is fully able to represent the “real world”. Most elements of our “maps of the world” are useful and work well for us, but some of our beliefs and behaviour patterns get in the way of our own progress and can make us feel “stuck” or out of control. Neuro Linguistic Psychotherapy & Counselling draws on concepts from many areas of psychology and psychotherapy. It helps us to understand how and why we do what we do, and to change those behaviour and thinking patterns that are unhelpful. It also assists us to develop a greater sense of self-control, recognise our own best qualities, and use them well.

Other therapeutic approaches which I regularly use in my practice are EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing).