A bit about me

Hello! I’m Belinda and I’m a creative and embodied therapist, clinical supervisor and facilitator.

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Training & Skills

I am a qualified Dramatherapist (Roehampton, 2014), Integrative Embodied Psychotherapist (Institute of Embodied Psychotherapy, 2022) and Clinical Supervisor (London Centre for Psychodrama, 2021). I have additional training in:

  • Compassion Meditation

  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

  • Group Reflective Practice

  • Mentalization-Based Therapy

  • Safeguarding (Level 3)

  • Playback Theatre (Advanced Practitioner)

  • Sandplay Therapy

  • Tai Chi and Qi Gong

  • Theatre of the Oppressed

  • Therapeutic Clowning

Experience

I have been facilitating groups for the last 22 years, working with a wide range of organisations across public, private and third sectors to deliver creative programmes with a diverse range of groups and individuals wanting to nurture their creativity, recover from trauma, and develop acceptance and compassion for themselves and others.

I have 9 years’ experience as a therapist and supervisor in the NHS (forensic mental health), and have delivered therapy to individuals and groups in schools, PRUs, refuges and community centres, alongside my private practice. I am also currently doing doctoral research into creative practice in prisons.

As a workshop facilitator, trainer, therapist and performer, I have partnered with:

Belgrade Theatre - British Association of Dramatherapists - Chance for Children - Chroma Therapies - City Gateway - Counselling in Prisons Network - Crick Crack Club - East London Foundation NHS Trust - Goodenough College - Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - InvestIn - Keystone Tutors - Khulisa - L&Q Housing - Regional Young Theatre Directors Scheme - Tailspin - University of Greenwich - University of Roehampton - West London NHS Trust

Publications

Sherlock, B. (2020). Book Review of Dramatherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Empowering and Nurturing People through Creativity, by Nicky Morris (2018). Drama Therapy Review, 6 (2) Volume 6, pp. 254-256.

Sherlock, B. (2020). ‘A Therapeutic Lens on Compassionate Care: Encountering the Inner Child in a Forensic Mental Health Setting’. In: Rowles, L. & Haji, I, ed., Humane Justice: What Role do Kindness, Hope & Compassion Play in the Criminal Justice System? London: The Monument Fellowship

Sherlock, B. (2021). Book Review of Trauma in the Creative and Embodied Therapies: When Words Are Not Enough, by Anna Chesner & sissy lykou (2020). Dramatherapy (online first), Available at:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02630672211056103.