Empress Simpson

• Deliver high-quality teaching and classroom support across a range of primary and secondary schools, in line with the British curriculum.
• Adapt quickly to diverse school environments, ensuring continuity of learning during staff absence across short- and long-term placements.
• Plan and deliver engaging lessons as a supply teacher, maintaining effective classroom management and achieving learning objectives.
• Support class teachers as a Teaching Assistant, working with individuals and small groups to reinforce learning and improve attainment.
• Build strong professional relationships with staff and students across multiple settings.
• Demonstrate flexibility and reliability by responding effectively to last-minute bookings and varied timetables.

Maintain high standards of safeguarding and compliance with school policies and procedures.

• Deliver high-quality, ethical, and client-centred psychotherapy within a generic service, supporting a diverse caseload of clients aged 4 to 65+ presenting with complex needs.
• Integrate person-centred and solution-focused approaches, promoting client autonomy and facilitating meaningful, outcome-focused change.
• Work with a wide range of presenting issues, including moderate to complex mental health difficulties, emotional distress, behavioural challenges, and psychosocial factors.
• Exercise clinical judgement and autonomy in assessment, formulation, and intervention planning, ensuring evidence-informed and responsive practice.
• Contribute to improving mental health and wellbeing at scale, supporting early intervention and sustained recovery.
• Uphold the BACP Ethical Framework, maintaining high standards of confidentiality, safeguarding, professional boundaries, and duty of care.
• Maintain accurate, comprehensive, and ethically robust clinical records in line with GDPR and organisational standards.
• Apply an integrative therapeutic approach, drawing on models including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
• Engage proactively in clinical supervision and reflective practice, demonstrating accountability and continuous professional development.
• Build and sustain safe, trusting therapeutic relationships, particularly with clients presenting with complex or long-term difficulties.
• Collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams and external agencies to support holistic care.

Recognised in clinical supervision for delivering an empowering, high-quality service with professionalism, insight, and dedication.

• Delivered intensive, CAMHS-informed support within a family assessment unit, working with parents to assess and strengthen their capacity to safely care for children aged birth to 17 years.
• Undertook comprehensive safeguarding and risk assessments, incorporating psychological, developmental, and environmental factors.
• Worked with families presenting with high levels of complexity, including trauma, attachment difficulties, mental health needs, substance misuse, and social adversity.
• Developed and implemented structured intervention and parenting plans, promoting emotional attunement and positive parent–child relationships.
• Produced high-quality, analytical reports for local authorities, contributing to formal assessments and court proceedings where required.
• Maintained clear, accurate, and defensible case records in line with legal, ethical, and organisational standards.
• Collaborated with social workers, CAMHS professionals, and multidisciplinary teams to support coordinated care planning.
• Exercised advanced professional judgement in high-risk situations, balancing safeguarding responsibilities with support and advocacy.
• Built professional, boundaried relationships with families, offering both support and constructive challenge to facilitate change.
• Monitored and evaluated parenting capacity and child outcomes, ensuring the child’s safety remained central.
• Demonstrated strong knowledge of safeguarding legislation, child protection frameworks, and trauma-informed practice.

Engaged in regular supervision and reflective practice, maintaining accountability and high standards of care.

• Completed 100 hours of supervised counselling practice as part of an undergraduate degree within a generic service.
• Managed an independent caseload, including assessment, session planning, and appointment coordination, while maintaining professional boundaries.
• Applied person-centred therapy alongside integrative approaches (including CBT-informed practice) to support a range of presenting issues.
• Worked with a diverse client group, enhancing cultural competence and adaptability in therapeutic delivery.
• Administered and interpreted clinical outcome measures (e.g. PHQ-9, GAD-7) to inform assessment and monitor progress.
• Worked in accordance with ethical frameworks, confidentiality, and safeguarding procedures.
• Engaged in clinical supervision and reflective practice, strengthening self-awareness and therapeutic effectiveness.

Demonstrated a strong commitment to continuous improvement, integrating feedback and theory into practice.