ABOUT CARA
Cara Counselling Training Ltd (CCT) was formed in 2015 by Deborah Flynn-Harland and Ray Burns. Now considered one of the most successful counselling training providers in the area, the success is down to a dynamic and robust approach to training and a commitment to delivering a comprehensive range of CPCAB accredited counselling training and CPD workshops; classroom based, online and blended. Cara is fully committed to ‘changing lives through learning’.
Most counselling training, particularly diploma levels, seem to focus on counselling theory and not on how to be a counsellor. We train our students holistically, ensuring that all aspects of becoming a counsellor are addressed including: self-awareness, working ethically and with integrity, developing professional understanding of the issues counsellors face as well as integrating theory into practice. Our students are excited when they begin their placements as they have had lived experience of working with real clients and supervision before they start work.
CCT offers professional and affordable counselling training from entry level up to qualifying practicing counsellor status. All our courses are nationally accredited and delivered by qualified counsellors and trainers. Cara’s founders and trainers have a wealth of differing counselling experience between them and feel passionate about what they do. We support our trainees to ensure that they have a solid and enjoyable learning experience.
Come and join us to experience first-hand how life changing our courses are!
THE CARA TEAM
Tansley Grace
Advanced Diploma Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy. MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Diploma in Supervision. CPCAB Accredited Tutor and Approved BACP Member No: 113767
Tansley is an accredited counsellor and supervisor, working in Littlehampton.
Growing up in West Sussex, Tansley moved away to study a degree in history before working in a variety of jobs including Administration, bookkeeping and care work.
Finding herself placed in the role of carer as well as mother to her own children led her through her own counselling and then on to take an interest in counselling as a career. After qualifying she worked in different counselling settings before setting up her own private practice in counselling and supervision as well as writing and presenting her own workshops.
Tansley is now one of the tutors with Cara Counselling Training, delivering training at Worthing College.
Tansley has three adult children. She enjoys walking and cycling with her main hobby being campanology.
Nathalie Clark
NCFE CASHE Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Autism (2022). NCS Diploma in Supervision (2021). CPCAB Level 5 Diploma on Psychotherapeutic Counselling (2016). City and Guilds Level 3 Award in Education & Training (2016). ABC Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (2015). CPCAB Accredited Tutor and Approved BACP Member No: 258277
Nathalie is an integrative counsellor / psychotherapist in private practice (www.tranquilitycounselling.org) and has worked with clients in school, LGBT and addiction charity settings.
Her approach is person centred and she integrates Gestalt, CBT and transpersonal into her practice to help clients holistically. Nathalie is an inclusive practitioner and is neuro divergent informed and welcomes all communities to her practice. She is also trauma informed and likes to keep up to date with the latest information and research in this area. Nathalie is also a CPCAB External Assessor for Level 2, 3 and 4. She enjoys the variety of her work and takes pride in helping students on their journey to becoming counsellors.
Nathalie has recently moved to Worthing from Devon, where she developed a passion for nature, foraging and wild swimming. She is looking forward to enjoying a continued sense of connection to the sea and to nature in Worthing.
Ray Burns
Advanced Diploma Integrative Counselling Psychology and Practice. CPCAB Accredited Tutor and Approved BACP Member No: 541877
Ray is an accredited counsellor and supervisor based in Littlehampton. He has his own private counselling practice, has co-ordinated and directed drug and alcohol charities and developed Relapse Prevention Training courses. Ray was also employed by the Ministry of Justice working with the re-integration of offenders for over twelve years using CBT.
Using his preferred person-centred model, Ray has been helping and counselling people for over thirty years and works with a diverse range of individuals, couples and counsellor supervision.
He is married, has two adult children and enjoys fly fishing and walking.
Emma Macdonald
Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (Cara Counselling Training, Worthing College) Level 5 Certificate Counselling Children and Young People. CPCAB Accredited Tutor and Approved BACP Member No: 00965938
Emma trained with Cara Counselling Training and works as an integrative counsellor working with adults, children and young people. Emma has a passion about working alongside people dealing with loss and has experience in working with pre and post bereavement. She is also passionate about working with children and young people and recently completed her Level 5 Certificate Counselling Children and Young People. Continuing to work as part of a team around the child, Emma works in a variety of schools across West Sussex offering long and short term therapeutic support.
Emma grew up in the Midlands and to the Southeast in 2011. Prior to qualifying as a counsellor Emma worked in aviation and has a passion for travel. She enjoys running, socialising and the great outdoors and can be often found watching her daughter horse riding.
