HELP SURVIVORS TO THRIVE

This website is entirely based on my personal experience, on what was available to me at that moment as well as what was not.

As you will read, I found myself in the depths, I had to learn to cope, hold myself together, learn to love myself and rebuild my entire life. I have since started to study as well as working as much as possible in order to rebuild everything as well as myself.

I base all my medical and psychological knowledge on what I have learned from the professionals that have helped and from what I have learned during the years. 

I have studied as much as possible, I still and will carry on studying all that encompass the experiences and traumas I have lived, this to be able to "make sense"of it  in my own mind and to make sure that nobody else will find himself as I did in that moment.

This does not mean that I am "cured" or that I "know it all"; I am still fighting the battle and I am still proudly going through therapy, learning new skills and most of all, learning to accept how my mind and body react to day to day life; it means that I have and still learning to live with the trauma and what the trauma has created.

Most of my education is based in Italy, where I am from.

I have experienced several and diverse formats and styles of education due to my parents wanting to move from city to city every few years. 

I eventually graduated as an Art and Interior Designing Teacher in my late 20's. I then created my own business in furniture restoration and interior designing, this lasted till 2004 when I moved to the UK.

Time goes by and settling in a new country took its toll.

In October 2018 I finally left my last abusive marriage and I found myself learning a new set of skills, I trained to become a Senior Support Worker for EOL (end of life) patients and patients with severe learning disability as well as challenging behaviour. This led me to learn about medication, nutrition, palliative care and more. 

l Eventually I had to stop working in the care field due to medical issues and once again, rediscovered the passion for learning.

My achievements to date are: 

Buddhist meditation teacher, Akshobya Buddhist Centre Nottingham, 2015

Strategic Life coach Practitioner Accredited Certification, 2023

PTSD Counselling and Management Accredited Certification, 2023

CBT Coach Practitioner Accredited Certification, 2023;

Art Therapist Accredited Certification, 2023;

Counselling Advanced Accredited Diploma Level 2024;

Psychology Accredited Diploma, August 2024;

Mindfulness Teacher Accredited Diploma, August 2024.

All of my information are based on researches and studies available from the UK as well as the USA.

Although I make all possible efforts to be as clear as possible and as reliable as possible to the information and knowledge that is available, from time to time I find myself cross-referencing this with my personal knowledge, with my experiences, with what I have seen and learned from professional along the years.

I often find that many professionals have a "set way" of utilizing the knowledge they have; after all we are all human and we all become accustomed to ways of doing things as this did work well i the past.

In my experience I have found that several pieces of information have been missed, that the latest research has not been explored and so on. This is not to "put blame" on anyone; to my understanding, sometimes it just takes longer for the latest knowledge to be explored by some professionals may this be for a sense of comfort in what they know or may this be due to the lack of time.

This are only but a few of the references and books I have used and still using in my studies, I hope you may find some of them useful.