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Out Team
Rebecca has worked as a clinician within the addiction/mental health field since 1999, in the UK and Ireland and Internationally, in both managerial and therapy positions. She has worked within a number of Priory Healthcare Organisations and other reputable and leading treatment providers and she is accredited with ACI (Addiction Counsellors Ireland)
As a qualified Addiction Therapist, to post graduate diploma level, she then went onto obtain further post graduate qualifications at Birmingham University in Integrative Counselling and London South Bank University in Addiction Counselling and Psychology.
Rebecca is also a trained cognitive behavioural therapist and is a certified relapse prevention specialist. She has extensive experience of, and training within, working with families and family systems affected by addiction and trauma. She is EAGALA and LEAP trained in Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and has witnessed the benefits of this powerful therapy in releasing unresolved trauma, allowing clients to engage in growth and change. She has a wealth of experience of working with dual diagnosis and all aspects of addictive behaviour including eating disorders, pathological gambling, sex and love addiction, co-dependency, alcohol, drugs and other process addictions.
Rebecca is also a trained EMDR therapist and integrates this into her practice when working with complex trauma.
She is an avid believer in the importance of the therapeutic relationship and how this can positively impact the client engaging in change, and much of her work is focused around this. She is both an empathetic and compassionate therapist however will provide therapeutic boundaries and safety for clients within her work.
Laura joined Banbury Lodge team in November 2018, driven by the desire to help people who have come across addiction in their life, and she believes that substance misuse treatment should not only be replaced by prescribed medication but part of a holistic approach towards recovery, following a plan put together by a multidisciplinary team, covering all the aspects of one’s well being.
She has been using her general medical knowledge to help the clients at Banbury Lodge achieve an acceptable level of physical wellbeing whilst undergoing detox treatment, in order to be able to focus on the personal and psychological aspects of their lives, and ultimately, achieve recovery from substance misuse and addiction.
Her professional experience begins when she qualified as a general adult nurse in 2015 and began her career working as a nurse in elderly, dementia and palliative care field. She acquired a wide range of experience in the medical field while working in a nursing home, dealing with a variety of illnesses commonly occurring in elderly patients.
In 2018 she started working on a surgical ward, where she gathered experience in managing patients post-op. She underwent extensive training in order to fulfill her nursing duties and provide the best of care towards her patients, with a portfolio comprising venepuncture, catheterisation, BLS (basic life support), ILS (immediate life support), AIMS (acute illness management), early warning signs of deteriorating health, use of AED, intravenous drug administration, pain management, extensive wound management and more.
During her time spent as a nurse in the surgical ward, she developed a particular interest in pain management and how it is sometimes associated with substance misuse.
Bernie came to Banbury Lodge with a keen interest in working within the addiction field and in utilising a person-centred approach to help individuals with addiction to become more readily capable of appreciating their lives from a fully functioning perspective.
Bernie has completed a BA Honours degree in Counselling, Bernie’s core model of counselling is person-centred therapy and she is also an NLP Master Practitioner. Bernie enjoys learning and developing new creative ways of working with clients and also the challenges it brings to be able to work them in a person-centred way.
