Mrs Lesley Dougan

Biography

Lesley is Programme Lead for MA Counselling and Psychotherapy Practise and MA Counselling and Psychotherapeutic Practise. She is a BACP Accredited Counsellor/ Psychotherapist, graduating with a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy from LJMU in 2012 and MA Counselling and Psychotherapeutic Practise in 2015. She is an EMDR UK/Ireland Practitioner. Lesley practices as a specialist bereavement counsellor and staff counsellor in the NHS and runs a small private practice. Her specialist interests are child bereavement, neurodiversity in counselling clients and trauma. Lesley is currently studying towards a Professional Doctorate in Counselling and Psychotherapy Studies at the University of Chester, her research focusing on the role of paediatric bereavement care support and adaptive meaning-making in bereaved parents.