Organisational Consultancy | The Awareness Centre

Consultants

Anne Alaoui	Keith Mainland	Michaela McCarthy
Christian Murphy	Tamarisk Saunders - Davies	Gilead Yeffet

Anne Alaoui

Anne is a qualified professional coach, who provides career and leadership coaching.

Specialist areas
Anne is particularly interested in supporting clients in career transitions, e.g.:

changing jobs and/or organisations
transitioning from managing self to managing a team
moving from an operational to a more strategic role
coping with redundancy
returning from a career break

Anne’s clients are often looking for fulfillment and self-expression in their careers. Through the coaching conversations, they gain a renewed sense of direction, get clarity about their values and utilize their strengths under changing circumstances.

Approach
Anne believes that coaching is a powerful means for change for individuals and organisations. She provides her clients with space to think and explore. Her style is gentle but probing; it works well for those who are willing to experiment and to explore different perspectives.

Career highlights
Anne has over ten years of experience as a financial services professional advising corporate clients, including three years at Deutsche Bank and five years at KPMG, where she had trained as a Chartered Accountant.

Anne’s educational background includes Middle Eastern studies at Manchester University and the MBA programme at UCLA. She is currently completing the MA in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy at Regent’s College. Anne also works as a counsellor at The Awareness Centre and at the West London Centre for Counselling.

Relevant qualifications and memberships

Member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC)
Member of the Coaching Division of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
Trainee therapist, UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
Certificate in Coaching Practice, EMCC senior practitioner level, i-coach academy/ Middlesex University
Core curriculum, The Coaches’ Training Institute

Testimonial
“I immediately trusted Anne and felt completely supported and non judged by her. I found our conversations very rewarding and powerful and an opportunity to quieten the conversation going round in my head on a loop, allowing space for things to show up more naturally for me…I would highly recommend Anne to anyone who is in a stage of transition or considering where to take their future career.” T. W., HR consultant

Keith Mainland

Keith is an experienced change management consultant, accredited psychotherapist and management coach.

In addition, he has considerable experience in team leadership, business development and business management.

Specialist areas
Keith works with individuals and teams to:

Clarify goals and objectives
Explore personal motivation and style and its impact on group dynamics and/or business relationships
Work on areas where current activity and behaviours are not supporting desired outcomes
Establish how progress will be monitored
Transfer the necessary skills and processes for the work to continue with minimal external input

Approach
Keith’s experience has led him to believe that his work has two distinct components that it is useful to be aware of: the processes that we use to get what we want and the specialist knowledge and/or experience that we require to be credible in a given situation. He encourages clients to examine issues and situations in this way to identify the areas they want to work on.

All of Keith’s work draws on sound change management and psychological methodologies that can become a part of the work or not, whichever client’s prefer.

Career Highlights
Keith trained as a psychotherapist between 2001 and 2007. He began working as change management consultant with Towers Perrin in 1995, going self-employed in 2000 and has continued his change management consulting work alongside his psychotherapy practice as well as running a web-based, retail business with his wife since 2010.

Keith has worked for and consulted in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors for organisations such as:

Shell
HSBC
HMRC
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The Orchard Trust
Towers Watson (formerly Watson Wyatt and Towers Perrin)

Relevant Qualifications and Memberships

UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist
Diploma in Psychotherapy from the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapeutic Education
Accredited user of Human Synergistics Lifestyle Inventory
Qualified WorkOutTM Workshop Leader
Accredited user of Behavioural Science Systems Continuous Performance Improvement questionnaire and methodology
Accredited user of Argonaut Intercultural Assessment Tool

Testimonial

“Keith is intuitive, perceptive and incisive – I looked forward to our sessions.”

Michaela McCarthy
Michaela is the Managing Director of The Awareness Centre and is a qualified counsellor, psychotherapist, psychosexual and relationship therapist, clinical supervisor and organisational consultant. Michaela currently works in private practice with individuals, couples and groups. She also clinically supervisees therapists and supports individuals and teams within organisations.

Specialist areas
Michaela is particularly interested in supporting clients within the public and private sector.

Team leadership skills for Managers and Directors
Team building including clear communicational skills
Dealing with interpersonal relationships and conflict within the workplace
Supporting small independent companies and departments within large corporate organisations or the public sector. For example, supporting the structure and the deliverance of a Business and Service Development Plan.
Supporting Human Resources on clinical issues

Michaela’s clients often struggle with leadership skills and peer relationships within the workplace, conflict with authority figures and also striking a balance between personal and professional life.
Michaela also specialises in all addiction issues and works with individuals who need to be clinical assessed. Sometimes the outcome varies, that is, clients may see Michaela in her private practice or they may need to be referred to a residential treatment centre. Michaela works on relapse prevention when individuals go back to work.

Approach
Michaela is an integrative practitioner which means that she integrates many different theoretical approaches in to her practice. Her style is direct, authentic and supportive. However, Michaela believes that the most important part of the interaction between her and clients is the relationship that they both develop.

Career highlights
Michaela has over ten years of experience working both clinically and managerially in the private and public sector. She enjoys the challenge of running groups and supporting teams. Michaela has developed each department with a robust team of colleagues at The Awareness Centre and continues to develop this organisation with a strength of enthusiasm. The Awareness Centre also manages clinical contracts within the NHS.

Relevant qualifications and memberships
Michaela trained as a Counsellor and Psychotherapist at The School of Counselling and Psychotherapy at The Whittington Hospital, as a Clinical Supervisor at CPPD School of Counselling and as a Psychosexual and Relationship Therapist at Regents College.

During her extensive clinical training she completed many courses on working with addiction, couples, sexual abuse and CBT. She is MBACP Snr. Accred. (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists), FDAP Accredited (Federation of Drug and Alcohol Professionals) and UKRCP Registered (United Kingdom Register of Counsellors & Psychotherapists).

Michaela is a Member of COSRT (College of Sex and Relationship Therapy), an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Medicine, a Member of the British Associate of Sexual Educators and a Member of AHPP Association for Humanistic Psychology Practitioners.

Testimonial
'Michaela's ambition, enthusiasm and expertise in the area makes counsellors think about how to promote and develop a business that is well known for being hard to start. More counsellors/therapists and counselling psychologists should attend this workshop for networking and inspiration.' F. B. February 2010

Christian Murphy

Christian has been working as a psychotherapist since 1999, and now runs a private practice, seeing clients in Clapham, SW4. Throughout his practice, he has specialised in workplace and employment issues. He enjoys helping people to address the many pressures they face in the modern workplace This has included supporting clients through processes of organisational change, the taking up of new management roles and dealing with workplace conflict.

Specialist areas
Christian’s main interest is in using a psychoanalytic approach to explore with clients what is going on underneath the surface of their workplaces and their experience of their jobs. This includes looking at how each of us can interpret and experience our current working life in terms of earlier family roles and relationships, as well as our underlying blocks and drivers.

This psychoanalytic approach is augmented by the use of techniques from both Transactional Analysis and EMDR. EMDR is a very effective form of short-term therapy, which can be used to identify and address self-limiting negative beliefs which can prevent people from expressing their full potential. Experience has shown Christian that people can step aside from or move past difficult workplace issues by developing an understanding of the personal underlying issues the current challenge touches upon.

Approach and methodology
Sessions involve an ongoing description and examination of the current issues. A specific approach can then be taken to the most important issues. Many issues can be explored in terms of the internal and external obstacles an individual faces in

Managing the boundaries within their organisation
Understanding and taking up their role within the organisation
Understanding and taking up the key tasks of their role
Dealing with issues of authority, including their willingness to take up their own formal and informal authority

Career highlights (including clinical experience)
Christian’s workplace issues expertise is informed by his legal experience in the commercial sector, which has included work in a city law firm and a large plc. He has also worked as a manger in a large employee assistance programme, providing support and various workplace interventions to employees, their manager and their HR departments. Also, he has managed large teams of practitioners providing counselling within the NHS.

Relevant qualifications and memberships
Christian has completed a four year training in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy at The Metanoia Institute, and is accredited as a counsellor and psychotherapist with The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He has completed the Post-Graduate Diploma in the Psychodynamics of Human Development offered by The British Association of Psychotherapists, as well as the one-year Introduction to Group Analysis course at The Institute of Group Analysis.

He is a qualified supervisor of counsellors and psychotherapists, having completed The Minster Centre Diploma in Supervision. His development as a practitioner continues through his attendance at group relations conferences, including those organised by the A.K. Rice Institute, and through advanced training at The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

Tamarisk Saunders-Davies

Tamarisk has been working as a psychotherapist and coach since 2007 and now runs a private practice working with clients locally in London, nationally in the UK and internationally with a spread of clients from Mexico City to Brisbane, Australia. Throughout her practice, Tamarisk has focused on the importance of inter-personal relationships to create powerful change.

Specialist areas
Tamarisk is particularly interested in supporting clients to develop both a successful career and a meaningful personal life. Typically, her clients are looking to address issues such as:

changing jobs or careers
learning effective communication skills
fear of make a career mistake
lack of self-confidence
limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging behaviours

Tamarisk's clients are often looking for more fulfillment and a sense purposefulness in their lives. Through the coaching conversations, clients are supported to uncover their values and goals and are powerfully held accountable in creating positive, intentional change in their lives.

Tamarisk builds open, understanding and collaborative relationships with her clients. Her strengths stem from her ability to quickly establish trusting relationships that bring clarity to the issues at hand and supporting her clients to design appropriate and concrete next steps. Tamarisk is committed to results, constantly encouraging her clients to take action to move them towards their desired outcomes.

Approach
Trained as both a psychotherapist and a coach, Tamarisk blends both approaches in order to invite her clients to design and implement action steps that create change in their lives from the secure and supportive base of the relationship she forms with her clients. A firm believer in the maxim that it's action that creates clarity, Tamarisk continually encourages and supports her clients to challenge limiting beliefs and behaviours which prevent clients from achieving their stated goals.

Career highlights
Tamarisk's focus and expertise in creating and maintaining supportive relationships within the workplace are informed by her commercial experience in the public relations sector where she developed and implemented strategic multi-million pound campaigns, managed teams and developed and led training programs for recent graduates. Her sales and marketing background have resulted in the successful launch of her own private practice.

Tamarisk writes a popular blog and is regularly invited to comment in the media on a broad range of coaching and psychotherapeutic topics and is developing a reputation as a sought after conference speaker.

Relevant qualifications and memberships
Tamarisk achieved her first degree in Psychology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and went to train as a Counsellor and Psychotherapist at the University of East London, as a coach at the Relationship Coaching Institute and as a strategic intervention coach at the Robbins-Madanes Centre for Strategic Intervention.

She is a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies. Her development as a practitioner continues through her commitment to her continued professional development via ongoing training, attendance at conferences and self-directed learning.

Gilead Yeffett

Gilead is trained in psychology and is a Gestalt practitioner and coach.

Specialist areas
Gilead is particularly interested in workplace communication issues such as

Assertive communication
Dealing with anger issues
improving team communication skills
Team cohesion and productivity

Gilead’s clients often struggle to deal with anger issues either being on the receiving end or expressing themselves constructively. Gilead facilitates workshops for teams and groups as well as individual work. Through the workshops and coaching, Gilead’s clients learn to express their needs and wants clearly and assertively.

Approach
Gilead uses mainly the Gestalt approach which focuses on how people relate to themselves and others in the present. His work is experiential, that is, bringing about change by looking into how people do things and how they can do them differently.

Career highlights
Before training as a psychologist and therapist, Gilead had a long career in marketing for international organisations and is experienced in corporate environments. Gilead currently works with clients in the leisure and retail industries.

Gilead’s educational background includes Bsc in psychology and is currently completing his MA in Gestalt Psychotherapy. Gilead also works as a therapist at The Awareness Centre, the Gestalt Centre London and at the West London Centre for Counselling.

Relevant qualifications and memberships
Trainee therapist, UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)

Testimonial
On demand due to the nature of the work.

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