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Francesca Lo Verso Counselling and Psychotherapy

francesca lo verso counselling and psychotherapy

My name is Francesca. The following bio may offer some more background on why I work the way I do. I grew up in Italy, but I spent half of my life outside my country of origin. This brought me face to face with the challenges of finding a sense of belonging and home elsewhere. This makes me particularly attuned to cross-cultural dynamics, multi-lingual living and the struggles of understanding who we are in this new reality. My early studies (a degree in International Relationships and Peace Studies) helped me understand human distress from the perspective of power dynamics and systemic oppression, hence why my framework of reference is systemic. A decade later, when I retrained as a counsellor, I combined my earlier studies and previous work experience in the third sector (ranging from supporting victims of human trafficking and refugees to the homeless) to find voluntary and subsequently paid work within a counselling service for people who use substances and are involved with the criminal justice system. Through my time at this counselling service, I understood trauma from a systemic point of view and learned to convey safety and support clients to find it in their life and within themselves. I am now a senior counsellor for a local charity for alcohol use. Since 2017, I’ve volunteered as a counsellor for the therapeutic community Time and Space, supporting people who hear voices, dissociate, and self-harm. My experience here has taught me how to look beyond the labels, centre the person in the work we do together and trust, no matter what, that the person knows best what works for them in their healing journey. Alongside this, over the years, I have nurtured a deep connection with nature, which kinship brought me a sense of connection, dignity and respect that I now extend to the other-than-human beings and world, too (hence why I have embraced a vegan lifestyle).

Procare Team

procare team

London

We are regulated by the Care Quality Commission and we aim to exceed the essential standards which are the standard set by the Care Quality Commission. We specialise in personal care delivery for adults in the age ranges from 18 to 65+, ensuring they are always treated with respect and their dignity is protected at all times. Among our most sought of services includes; Home care and Help Domiciliary care Palliative and end of life care Dementia care Respite care Personal Elderly care Companionship Why you should choose us Staffing Solutions, Recruitment and training are among the key reasons for our progress within the care industry. We provide staff to various settings including NHS, Health and Social Care Agencies and Nursing/Residential Care Homes, individual homes. Our teams have vast industry knowledge of the Health and Social Care sector offering you expertise, quality services and excellent cost saving benefits. Our Aim Procare Team is centred on quality, efficiency and service delivery; so you can be rest assured that you get the best service at a good value. Our aim is to provide a personalised care paln for all of our clients by providing a person-centred care and promote health, wellbeing and independence of individuals. We are here to listen to you and to work through to provide you and your family members the peace and the comfort of being cared for, this will always make us strive for better achievements. Our Values Our Values guide our daily operations, decisions, and interactions with clients, employees, and other stakeholders. We place a high priority on establishing long-lasting relationships between clients and their caregivers, which we accomplish through the quality of our recruitment process, the training we provide to staff, and the high levels of staff retention we achieve. This leaves our clients and ourselves with the following: Integrity Excellence Commitment Accountability Respect Tolerance

William De Ferrers School

william de ferrers school

Chelmsford

We will strive to provide all pupils with the means to achieve their maximum potential and to develop individual responsibility and respect for the rights of others by: · Pursuing the highest standards in teaching. · Providing an excellent learning environment. · Giving equal access to a broad well-resourced curriculum · Achieving a partnership between pupils, parents and school. We believe that: Children and young people come first in everything that we do. We are committed to ensuring that all our teaching is always at least good and regularly outstanding. We believe that all young people are capable of accessing an academic curriculum and with appropriate support and interventions can achieve highly. We expect the highest standards of behaviour and conduct, ensuring that dignity and respect are shown to all members of our school community. School is about more than just academic success—it is also about wider achievement in sport, the arts, applied learning, trips and excursions, clubs and activities. We care for our students as individuals—looking after their personal, academic, social and emotional wellbeing and development. Parents/carers are key partners in ensuring that our students are happy at school and are achieving what is expected of them. We see education and learning as being life-long, building on the foundations laid in primary and junior schools and preparing our students for their continuation of learning through employment, college and university. Our students take great pride in wearing our school uniform, ensuring that they identify clearly with the school and come here ready to work and achieve highly. We are committed to ensuring the continuing professional development of all our staff. We believe that our school is key to ensuring that the community of South Woodham Ferrers is strong, vibrant and cohesive. We are at the heart of our community—quite literally and philosophically. We really are an academy for the community.

Mid-View Healthcare Ltd

mid-view healthcare ltd

England

At Mid-View Healthcare we treat our clients and their service users like our family, because they are!. We are a nursing agency that provide temporary staffing to care homes and private hospitals across England. Aside from our commitment to providing professional care, our unique modern approach to care delivery leads to a relationship-oriented care experience for both our clients and their service users. At Mid-View Healthcare, we are always on the lookout for passionate and committed individuals to join our team. We are a highly efficient care agency, who prides themselves on offering an excellent service to our clients. We aim to deliver an outstanding and evolving recruitment process that is relevant and suitable to the interest of the industry. We understand that not one care plan fits all. Our daily services can include anything from meal preparation, hygiene, cleaning, and supervision or specific tasks discussed with our clients. We offer skilled care support for Residential and Nursing homes that may need additional support. In other that, their service users achieve their optimum state of health and well-being. We treat all people supported by us and all people who work here with respect at all times. We uphold the human and citizenship rights of all who work for us. We support individual choice and personal decision-making as the right of all Service Users. We respect and encourage the right of independence of all Service Users. We recognise the individual uniqueness of Service Users, staff and visitors, and treat them with dignity and respect at all times. We respect individual requirements for privacy at all times and treat all information relating to individuals in a confidential manner. We will listen to your concerns and work with you to find a resolution on any complaints in a timely manner. We recognise the individual need for personal fulfilment and offer individualised programmes of meaningful activity to satisfy the need of our clients and staff.

Lexington Learning

lexington learning

Vauxhall

About Us Lexington Learning was founded in 2018 by Maxine French, a qualified Law, Business and Politics Lecturer and experienced continuing professional development trainer and Education Technologist. Lexington Learning's aim is to enhance the teaching and learning experience by embedding EdTech, Maths, English Literacy, employability skills and social and environmental awareness. We offer a number of services including: private tutoring, CPD for schools and colleges, short courses for adult learners and specialised workshops for educational institutions that can complement and reinforce curriculum learning. At Lexington Learning, we are passionate about teaching, and as each person has a different learning style, we tailor our services to suit the needs of the client. Delivering a truly bespoke learning experience, where the needs of the client come first. Our Values We create life enhancing learning experiences that help students and teaching professionals achieve their learning goals and develop personally and professionally. Our aim is to provide a positive and inspiring experience through education, training and skills development. Our core values are at the centre of our business. They define who we are, how we work and how we collaborate with our stakeholders. INTEGRITY - We are open and honest in all the work that we do. We value our relationship with our students and stakeholders and maintain our relationships through mutual trust and respect. CREATIVITY & INNOVATION - We are continuously innovating and researching to remain at the forefront of the latest developments in education, technology and training. We are a progressive organisation and embrace change and encourage creativity in all we do. EQUALITY & DIVERSITY - Inclusion, equality and diversity are at the core of how we engage with our colleagues, students and stakeholders. We are fully committed to creating a supportive working and learning environment where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. SOCIALLY & ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE - Our aim is to enhance the teaching and learning experience by embedding technology, employability skills and social and environmental awareness in all that we do.

Spirit of the Inca

spirit of the inca

Radstock

Lying flat on my back for 16 days back in 1980 something, I was in so much physical pain that I could not move. It was then that I began to realise that I needed to change my life! I had been literally 'floored'! Stopped in my tracks. I had nowhere to run, or hide. "It wasn't by chance that during that time I came across a reflexologist who helped me to see that this was a turning point in my life. As a result of that meeting, and the healing that followed, I trained to become a reflexologist. My healers journey had begun and everything changed. "Over the course of the next few years, I noticed that some clients healed and others did not. My curiosity and desire to be of service led me to explore all kinds of therapeutic processes... counselling, gestalt, person centred therapy, psychosythesis. It was a great help in understanding how the mind affected the body. And I noticed that now I was able to help more people to heal.. and yet I noticed that still some clients did not. "My wondering about this led me fully into the healing arts and I began to understand that we each have a soul's journey. I had to ask myself: 'Why am I here?' 'What am I meant to be doing with my life?' "At the level of the soul I needed to know that my life has meaning and purpose beyond the everyday, and I learned that creative expression is vital to my wellbeing, as is finding a meaning and purpose that fits who I am. During this time I had many teachers. I trained to be a yoga teacher, I discovered 5 Rythms dance, and explored ways to use my voice... each time reaching out beyond my comfort zone, beyond who I thought I was.. to discover aspects of me that had been hidden or surpressed in the simple act of living this everyday reality. "My wondering led me to run a women's group for ten years. I wanted to explore what it means to be a woman in today's world. Together, we explored the sacred feminine, the goddess, the myths that we live by, we explored sacred landscapes, ceremony and ritual and found ways to connect with Mother Earth, a connection lost in working world today. During those years I took groups on Outward Bound courses in the landscape of Dartmoor. It was as much my journey as it was for those who shared it with me. We all learned a lot about ourselves, about what we were truly capable of. Incredible transformations took place in us all. Above all I learned the resilience of the human spirit, how stepping beyond fear creates inner trust and confidence... and that when we truly face our fears and embrace them we liberate ourselves then our presence liberates others. "Finally my journey led me to Shamanic Training. I have worked with a number of shaman in my life, and now, Incorporating the processes and techniques that I have learned both from the Inca tradition and many other great teachers along the way, I have developed a training which is powerful, beautiful and for me is the final piece in the puzzle. "Working at the level of energy affects all of the bodies: the soul's journey, the mental body, the emotional body and the physical body. I have also learned on this journey that it is a sacred journey, a journey towards wholeness... and the more I heal of myself, the more I affect those around me in a positive, life enriching way. "This is the work that I do in the world, it's the gift that I bring. "My medicine stones form a powerful healing tool called a Mesa. "My Mesa contains the wisdom that comes from my personal healing, the transformation of old worn-out stories of powerlessness, turned into power; of pain and suffering turned into compassion; and ancient wisdom handed down through the ages, through a lineage of medicine men and women whose grace, dignity and childlike innocence reminds me of what we have lost in the Western world. "And now I teach others how to build theirs."

Trust House Lancashire

trust house lancashire

Trust House Lancashire is a Specialist Rape and Sexual Assault Support Centre based in Preston and working across the county to deliver a range of services to support survivors of any kind of sexual violence to recover from their experience of abuse. Trust House was established in 2013 with funding awarded to The Survivors Trust who project managed the setup of Trust House. This was in recognition of the gap in specialist provision across the county, and to offer a range of services to survivors in Lancashire. Service delivery commenced in April 2014 and this last year has seen us complete our fifth year of service delivery. Trust House delivers a range of services to men, women, children from aged 4 years and their families; • Counselling • Play Therapy • Art Therapy • Pre-trial Therapy • Family Support • Parent Peer Support Group • Creative Wellbeing Group • Training • Volunteer Placement Opportunities Trust House is committed to empowering survivors and their supporters to work through and beyond their experience of abuse. We recognize the uniqueness of individual experience, and appreciate that each experience demands an individual and creative response. We support working in ways that; • Recognize human dignity • Appreciate the variety of human experience • Demonstrate a commitment to showing justice in dealing with others • Encourage continual development and improvement of professional knowledge. Until 2014 there was limited specialist support available to survivors of sexual violence and abuse in Lancashire. Trust House was established by a Ministry of Justice grant in recognition of this gap in specialist provision. Since April 2014 Trust House has seen an increasing number of survivors of rape and sexual assault seek their support. Many of those coming to Trust House are seeking support for the first time and have never disclosed or reported previously. We are able to understand the therapeutic needs of individuals that have experienced a high level of trauma as a result of sexual violence whilst also able to successfully navigate complex criminal justice processes in a way that holds clients and ensures their resilience at a time of immense distress. Our successful establishment over our first few years has led to our independent registration with the charity commission in October 2017, and a transition to an independent CIO over the last 18 months.

Worthwhile Communications

worthwhile communications

London

I first heard of human trafficking in 2010 when a young couple visited our church. They shared about the work they were doing overseas to help young women that were caught in human trafficking. What they shared that morning took me by surprise, as I couldn't believe that slavery still existed. In my mind, slavery was a thing of the past, but as they shared about their work and the stories of the women they were helping, I felt the need to do something. At that time, I was working in a sales and marketing role at a local engineering and manufacturing company. It was a position that afforded my young family comfort, stability, and even a few luxuries. Over the course of two years, I deliberated what my role should be to help those enslaved. I knew I needed to be a part of the solution and not sit idly by. Growing up in Ukraine as a missionary kid, I learned from my parents what it meant to set personal comforts aside to better serve others. With God's guidance, I made the very difficult decision to leave the comfort of my sales and marketing position in an effort to fully commit myself to this cause. Worthwhile Wear launched in India in 2012 and then launched a variety of programs in the US in 2014. Today Worthwhile Wear has grown to offer the most comprehensive services to survivors of trafficking in the state of PA. I haven't once regretted the decision our family made to step away from a career job in order to better serve these brave survivors. Knowing that my days are spent helping women experience freedom and realize their true worth, has made each day a rewarding one. I have the support and help of my wife and two children, and we’ve committed ourselves to provide for and support these women. At my core I believe every person on this planet is of equal value and deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. It is our desire that through our actions, each woman in our programs would know that they truly are worthwhile.

Autism Voice

autism voice

London

Autism Voice is a parent-driven not for profit organization set up in 2013, by parents of an autistic child who struggled to get acceptance and recognition from members of their community in South London. Autism Voice aims to end stigma and discrimination attached to Autism. Our VISION Autism Voice envisions a society in which people with autism and co-occurring conditions and their families are supported by a society that works to ensure they can live with dignity, participate in a quality of life, and strive for a brighter future. Our MISSION Autism is still poorly understood by many people in different communities in the UK. Our mission is to educate the public about the condition, give and advocate for support and protection of people within the spectrum and help in enhancing autistic people and their families to live a happy and fulfilling lives. Our Values Reliable (always doing what we say we will) Excellence (striving for excellence and quality) Honesty (in all our dealings and maintaining the highest integrity) Equality (all stakeholders are respected) Culture of learning (we value learning and feedback for service improvement) Forward thinking (endurance and innovation in our practice) From these core values, we ensure: Integrity and respect in reputation Innovation and excellence in practice A positive and passionate organization Inspiring leadership Consistency and endurance in adversity Goals Be the association and voice for Autism in the Black Asian and Minority Ethnic community in the UK. Forge a better cultural understanding between the autistic community in BAME and professionals. Work in partnership with a range of voluntary, private, and statutory agencies to improve access to services for autistic people and their families. Encourage research into Autism in the BAME community. A better understanding of ASC particularly among members of the BAME community in the UK. People with ASC from mainly the BAME community having access to relevant services. Autistic children having access to appropriate intervention, services and resources immediately following diagnosis. People with ASC and their families have transition plans that result in more independent adult life that is meaningful to the individual. Individuals with ASC will have effective interventions, services and supports throughout their lifetime.