Alessia Newman

Biography

Alessia is an MBACP Psychodynamic Counsellor and Psychotherapist, who trained with the Birkbeck, University of London. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Essex in the Department of Psychoanalytic and Psychosocial Studies. Alessia has experience of working in NHS Primary and Secondary care services. She currently works in an acute hospital, providing Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy to oncology patients who may also be receiving end of life care. In this role, she is also responsible for delivering crisis interventions and assessment training to staff within the oncology department and wider Trust, as well as delivers "Psychological Skills Level 2 Training" in line with NICE Guidelines. Beyond her clinical work, Alessia is an Associate Lecturer for the University of Hertfordshire DClinPsych program, where she provides reflective spaces for disabled trainees, and also delivers seminars on psychodynamic perspectives in relation to physical disability. Before working as a counsellor and psychotherapist, Alessia began her work in the Health and Social Care sector by providing interventions and assessments for people who were suicidal or in a mental health crisis, either over the telephone, in person or via the NHS Mental Health Helpline. This led her to work as a Senior Operational Manager within the third sector, where she was responsible for developing and delivering countywide, crisis alternative services in line with the national suicide prevention strategy and crisis care concordat, in partnership with the NHS, Police Crime and Commissioners, Local Authority and Ambulance Service.