Gemma Rees

• Lead, supervise, and support a small team of therapists to ensure the delivery of high-quality care and therapeutic services.
• Provide guidance on therapeutic interventions, ensuring they align with evidence-based practices (DBT, MI, CFT, ACT) and the facility’s treatment philosophy (12 step recovery + SMART recovery planning).
• Facilitate group therapy and deliver workshops.
• Work closely with support staff to ensure cohesive working among MDT, where appropriate person-centred care and thorough documentation is integral.
• Complete daily compliance checks to ensure care plans and risk assessments are detailed and inclusive of any safeguarding risks.
• Integrated holistic approaches (meditation, yoga, breath work, sound therapy) into treatment plans promoting overall wellness amongst clients.
• Synthesised health-related information to help patients comprehend diagnoses, symptoms and treatments and feel empowered through understanding.
• Designed therapeutic programmes including recreational activities to help improve and maintain holistic functioning of groups and individuals (eg. reading groups, peer evaluations, walk + talk).

• Offering 12-48 sessions within an NHS-funded addiction rehabilitation service. Integrating person-centred, relational psychodynamic techniques alongside CFT and MI.
• Addressed complex issues related to addiction, trauma, anxiety, depression, disordered eating, attachment issues, psychosexual dysfunction, and bereavement.
• Provided clients with recommendations to community resources, mutual aid, and peer mentor programs.

• Mentorship through weekly person-centred talking support sessions (12-24 weeks) with mothers facing disadvantage or at risk, fostering an environment of empathy, compassion, and understanding.
• Provided a supportive, collaborative, and non-judgmental space for mothers to express their concerns, fears, and aspirations through regular in-person and online meetings.
• Liaised with relevant community organisations and resources to provide additional support and assistance as needed, enhancing the overall support network for mothers.

Facilitated Death Cafe sessions in accordance with the principles outlined by Crettaz (2004), ensuring an open, respectful, and confidential space where participants could freely express their views on life and death without any agenda to lead them to conclusions, products, or courses of action.