Maria Dowse
The Untangling Therapist

Some information about me. I am;

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• Neurodivergent- receiving multiple late-life diagnoses'.

• A third-culture kid—born on the Wirral, I grew up in Australia, and I now live in Manchester, UK.

• The mother of 5-  adult children.

• A home educator- for 25 years until my kids

       wanted to access institutional education.

• A cat and dog mum.

• ​Trained- as a primary school teacher, and completed a CYP placement. I have well over the 100 hours clinical experience necessary for supporting CYP clients. I've worked with my supervisor to make sure I meet the
  competencies for working with children and young people.

• A Cruse volunteer- for the past 5 years, I have gleaned rich experience within Cruse 
  bereavement.  Including Zoom and telephone support, group facilitation, assessments and I have been a supervisor for a year. 

 

    I have lived experience of;

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• Living undiagnosed and misdiagnosed and all the implications that brings. 

• Raising undiagnosed children.

• Bereavement, grief and loss. 

• Spiritual and religious abuse. 

• Surviving trauma.

• Home education, alternate education and autonomous education. 

• Life transitions. 

• An emptying nest-children leaving home.

• Contemplating the existential (e.g. mortality)

• Perimenopause.

• Using creative expression as a way of processing my emotions. 

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 Professional Training;

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  Edge Hill University-MSc Counselling and Psychotherapy-           Contemporary and Creative Approaches.​
 

  Keele University-MSc Post Graduate Credits (First year of the      MSc) Counselling and Psychotherapy.
 

​ Keele University-Graduate certificate in Counselling.
 

​ The Manchester College-ABC Counselling Skills Level 3.
 

 The Manchester College-ABC Counselling Concepts Level 2.

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​ Charles Sturt University (Australia)-Diploma of Teaching   (Primary).​

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 Professional membership;

 

• I work ethically and in line with my personal values and those of my membership body.

• I am a accredited registrant member of National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society-NCPS2468

• My insurance is through Holistic.

• I am registered with the Information Commissioner's Office

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Other training and experience-

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• Foundation bereavement training-Cruse

• Bereavement Support Online and Telephone- Cruse

• Bereavement Safeguarding level 3/4- Cruse.

• Bereavement Self-care- Cruse.

• Bereavement Working with trauma- Cruse.

• Bereavement Additional suicide training- Cruse.

• Bereavement & Neurodiversity (ADHD)- Cruse & ADHD Foundation.

• Bereavement group training- Cruse.

• Bereavement supervision training- Cruse.

• Supporting bereaved children & young people-Child

        bereavement UK

• Counselling with Children and Young People Training-Workshop with Claudia Aldersley, Parenting2000.

• Minecraft in therapy- level 1 &2 with Ellie Finch.

• Minecraft in therapy-Using Digital Sandtrays in Online and In-Person Therapy

• Focusing Level One- with Susan Jordan

• The Inside of Autism- Kieran Rose, The Autistic Advocate

        (6-week course).

• Counselling Online (Open University)

• Trauma, Neurodiversity and Children and Young People -

       Workshop with Rachael Klug

• Life After Trauma: Reframing, Rewiring, Renewing Your Nervous System- Workshop with Kate Williams

• Working With Trauma, Somatic-Based Interventions to Move Clients From Surviving to Thriving- Dr Arielle Schwartz, Pesi UK.

• Adult Mental Health Aware Half Day- Cruse and MHFA England

• 7 ways not to exclude LGBTQ+ clients from therapy- Chloe

       Foster

• LGBTQ+ Pronouns, 5 top tips- Chloe Foster.

• Uncertainty: An existential perspective: Ernesto Spinelli.​

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