Trisha Waters

Director & Lead Trainer

Trisha Waters is the author of Therapeutic Storywriting (publ. David Fulton 2004) and an experienced educational trainer.

Her paper on Therapeutic Storywriting was published in the international journal 'Psychodynamic Practice' (Vol. 8 Aug 2003, BrunnerRoutledge). Trisha has also published articles in a range of UK journals including Counselling in Education, Psychosynthesis & Education, SENCO Update, Educational Therapy & Therapeutic Teaching and Young Minds.

Biography
Trisha currently divides her time between her job as senior lecturer in SEN & Inclusion at the University of Chichester where she oversees the MA modules in SEN & Inclusion and working as an independent consultant in the field of behaviour management, emotional literacy, SEN and inclusion. She is also engaged in doctoral research at Southampton University where she is researching the relationship between emotional and cognitive learning.

After graduating from Sussex University with a degree in Logic and Modern Physics, Trisha completed her PGCE and began her teaching career in a residential therapeutic community school for boys with severe emotional and behavioural diificulties. She later worked as a classteacher and senior manager in an inner London primary school before moving to Brighton where she worked as a SENCO in a large junior school. While in London she trained as a counsellor and therapist at the Psychosynthesis and Education Trust where her training placement was with the school based counselling organisation The Place To Be. She later gained an MA in Therapeutic Interventions in Primary Schools from Sussex University and completed her training in supervision at the British Association of Psychotherapists.

With the support of a Best Practice Research Scholarship dissemination grant Trisha wrote and taught the course on Educational Counselling and Therapeutic Teaching at Crawley College. In 2004 she led the Therapeutic Storywriting Project for the South-east Region SEN Partnership (SERSEN). She was a member of the SEN Committee responsible for writing the SEN policy for Brighton & Hove and co-wrote the Brighton & Hove policy for Counselling in Primary Schools. She has delivered training and consultancy to schools and LAs around the UK.