Angela West

Angela West

Room 3.77, Henry Cotton Building.

Senior Lecturer in Counselling.

Professional Lead for Counselling.
Programme Leader P.G Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy.

I started counselling in 1993. My counselling background has a focus in the field of trauma and traumatic bereavement, and includes specialised areas such as working with Asylum Seekers and Refugees, clients affected by the death of a child and survivors of child sexual abuse and rape, as well as experience with more general counselling issues. My practice also includes providing supervision to therapists.

Prior to my current post, my interest in training led to my involvement in the development of training courses for loss and bereavement, interpreting in therapeutic settings and working with interpreters, among others.

Effective therapeutic intervention.
Trauma and traumatic bereavement.
Therapeutic work with sexual violence.
The therapeutic relationship and its affect on therapy/treatment.

Supervision issues when upervising therapists working with trauma.

West, A. (2011). Formative evaluation of the transition to post graduate study for counselling and psychotherapy training: students’ perceptions of assignments and academic writing. Counselling & Psychotherapy Research. Published online at ifirst http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733145.2011.604425

West, A. (2011). Using the Delphi technique: experience from the world of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research.11(3), 237-242.

West, A. (2010). Supervising Counsellors and Psychotherapists who work with trauma: a Delphi study. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 38(4), 409-430.

July 2006 ‘To do or not to do. Is that the question?’  Therapy Today, Vol. 17, No. 06.

March 2004 ‘A Hope in Hell. CPJ, Vol 15, No. 02.

Psychological Trauma

Supervision

Post Graduate Certificate

Post Graduate Diploma