Allegra Madgwick
London,London
Summary
I am a qualified psychoanalytic psychotherapist registered with the BPC and have years of post and pre qualification experience. I feel passionate about the NHS and the provision of psychoanalytically informed talking therapies to patients who could not afford to take up private therapy.
I know I would learn a lot and continue my development as a therapist through a placement at SLAM which is a centre of excellence for the sort of work I am committed to.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
13
13
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Young Persons Counsellor
Brook Advisory Service
London
04.2002 - Current
- Assessed clients to identify needs, strengths and challenges, creating tailored treatment plans for positive change and to refer on where necessary.
- Taking on a diverse patient load of up to ten clients a week for once a week work which included patients presenting with self harming issues - cutting, suicidal thoughts and actions, eating disorders and substance misuse.
- Provided a generalist psychodynamic counselling service offering a 12 week short intervention model but also with some longer term work of up to a year depending on severity of issues for the under 25 patient group at Brook.
- Implemented the Safeguarding policies of the organisation including attention to risk assessment, the limits of confidentiality, multiple agency working and the essential use of ongoing individual and group supervision.
- Engaging in ongoing CPD including in house Safeguarding updates and ongoing peer supervision with a group of Tavistock alumni. Have regularly taken up training opportunities provided by the IOPA most recently including Marcus Evans online seminars Thinking Under Pressure concerning the management of violent acting out in in patient psychiatric settings and a series of seminars led by Megan Virtue on working psychoanalytically withPsychosomatic Symptoms.
- Experienced in working in a multi disciplinary team including nurses, doctors and health advisors.
- Maintained good written and online records of the clinical work undertaken.
- Worked for years with a very diverse patient group including lGBTQ and black and ethnic minority patients and my work aims to be aware of the environmental factors that contribute to mental health issues and how inequality can affect access to care and the choices available to people.
Bookseller
Gays The Word
, London
02.1999 - 04.2022
- Retail work in a community bookshop serving the lesbian and gay community in London - all aspects of bookshop work including customer service, knowing and promoting the stock, engaging with authors to promote their work and developing a warm engaging community hub.
Education
D59i Intercultural Training in Adult Psychotherapy - Psychoanalytic Theory/Clinical Practise
The Tavistock Institute
London 10.2017 - 12.2023
MSc Psychodynamic Counselling - Psychodynamic Therapy
Birkbeck College University of London
London 10.1999 - 04.2002
MA English Studies - Modernity and Literature
Queen Mary and Westfield College
London 10.1994 - 04.1995
Bachelor of Arts - American Literature
Sussex University
Brighton 10.1980 - 07.1984
Skills
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy and counselling I am committed to a psychoanalytic approach to working with patients and I would describe such an approach as involving the centrality of the frame in maintaining boundaries and safety for the patient and as a means of understanding unconscious communication between patient and therapist in the crucible of the transference and the countertransference Psychoanalytic thought has so many layers including an awareness of the development of the mind over time and the elements that can stall or de rail that development including trauma, and the ongoing conflict between destructive and creative parts of the personality
- I have worked with self harm and am aware of how anxiety provoking such presentations are Good supervision and the containment it provides for the therapist is essential to maintain an open reflective attitude rather then a rush to action, whilst being mindful of the risks a patient might present - to themselves and to the work 'Thinking under fire,' is of course Bion's resonant phrase and the ongoing development of such a possibility is important to me
Timeline
D59i Intercultural Training in Adult Psychotherapy - Psychoanalytic Theory/Clinical Practise
The Tavistock Institute
10.2017 - 12.2023
Young Persons Counsellor
Brook Advisory Service
04.2002 - Current
MSc Psychodynamic Counselling - Psychodynamic Therapy
Birkbeck College University of London
10.1999 - 04.2002
Bookseller
Gays The Word
02.1999 - 04.2022
MA English Studies - Modernity and Literature
Queen Mary and Westfield College
10.1994 - 04.1995
Bachelor of Arts - American Literature
Sussex University
10.1980 - 07.1984
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