Watershed
&
Therapy Law
Watershed Counselling Service and
Therapy Law
are both trading names of of Dr Barbara Mitchels.
COUNSELLING
Watershed
provides counselling, psychotherapy, mentoring and
professional practice supervision, working
within the Ethical Framework of the BACP.
CONSULTANCY
Therapy Law is a consultancy servic to help practitioners experiencing ethical and legal
dilemmas in the counselling and other helping professions.
CPD WORKSHOPS
See the
Workshops page for face to face and online CPD workshops at affordable prices for practitioners.
Personal qualifications and experience:
Barbara holds dual qualifications in therapy and law.
Now retired from legal practice, her consultancy work draws on the knowldege and skills
gained in her law degree, and in many years as a solicitor advocate and in family and community mediation.
Barbara also holds qualifications in counselling, psychotherapy and counselling supervision, and is
a BACP Registered Practitioner (Snr Accred). Her subsequent PhD. research explored the relationship of
trauma, conflict and therapy, focussing on practice experience of post war trauma therapy in the Balkans.
Barbara was awarded a Fellowship of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) in
2006.
PUBLICATIONS
Barbara has written widely - her books, online resources for practitioners and journal paper topics include
ethical and legal practice, post-traumatic stress, supporting vulnerable witnesses, and more - see the
Publications page
for her more recent publications.
Counselling and psychotherapy experience includes:
* NHS GP surgery, University counselling service, Emergency services staff support, EAPs and Private practice.
* International work for the Red Cross, the Red Crescent, Save the Children, UNICEF and other agencies.
* Research includes the relationship of traumatic stress and conflict in the context of post-war peace-building.
Legal experience includes private practice, and work for local authorities and government
* Advocacy
* Crime and Civil rights
* Family law, child protection and safeguarding vulnerable children and adults
* All Issues Mediation and Community Mediation