GEM ALEXANDRA

WELCOME

I’m Gem, I offer therapy and academic supervision online and in Nottingham NG7

integrative therapy // I work with a range of experiences including anxiety, depression, and trauma // a space for you to speak freely about what you’re going through

therapy + creative process // I also offer integrative therapy with a focus on creative process

academic supervision // for students of counselling and psychotherapy who want to integrate material from other disciplines into their studies, to address the social context in which they and their clients are situated

ABOUT

TRAINING

Integrative Psychotherapy - MSc Distinction

A 4-year program of academic study, supervised clinical work, group process, and personal psychotherapy

EXPERIENCE

I see a range of clients in private practice and have worked as a volunteer in the free and low-cost counselling services at Nottingham Women’s Centre, and Rutland House Counselling & Psychotherapy

BACKGROUND

Varied roles in social care and health care since 2007, including working with mental health and illness, dementia, end-of-life and palliative care, brain injury, and drugs and alcohol

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

I am in clinical supervision with an experienced Integrative Psychotherapist

I continue to develop my knowledge and skills, through regular training, workshops, and seminars. Examples of events attended include: Freud, Fanon, and the Language of Power || Safety & Stabilisation in Trauma Work || Parapraxis Seminar: The Family Problem || Questioning "Diversity" in Psychoanalysis || BDSM & Trauma || Psychoanalytic Innocence: The Ideological Underpinnings of Theory & Praxis || The “return to Fanon” and the foundations of Decolonial Psychoanalysis

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Our internal landscape, and the questions and difficulties we bring into therapy, are shaped by the world we live in; things beyond our direct control have a powerful influence over our circumstances, our day-to-day experiences and how we feel about life. I am committed to reading widely around themes of power, health, race, class, culture, gender and more, to keep thinking through these connections. Beyond that, a great novel, album, or comedy, can say at least as much about how it feels to be alive and to struggle as any book of theory