ABOUT CARA
CARA COUNSELLING TRAINING LTD offer professional and affordable counselling training, from entry level up to qualifying practicing counsellor status. All courses are nationally accredited and delivered by qualified counsellors and trainers. Cara support trainees to ensure they have a solid and enjoyable learning experience.
Formed in 2015 by Deborah Flynn-Harland and Ray Burns, Cara is considered one of the most successful counselling training providers in the area. Just 31 students completed courses in 2015, increasing to 170 students in 2021! Cara continues to grow and develop and now offers a range of in person and online courses.
In May 2020 Ray retired and Deborah continues to move forward surrounded by a fantastic and ever increasing team of tutors. Deborah believes the success of Cara will continue to be found in its dynamic and robust approach to training and through its offer of CPCAB accredited counselling training and CPD workshops. The Cara team are 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.
THE CARA TEAM
Deborah Flynn-Harland
Postgraduate Diploma Psychological Counselling. Postgraduate Certificate in Education (FAHE). BTEC Certificate in Counselling. 3 years training in Transactional Analysis. BA Applied Social Sciences. CPCAB Accredited Tutor and Approved BACP Member No: 524273
Deborah is an integrative counsellor and counselling trainer based in Worthing. Deborah first became interested in counselling whilst studying a counselling module which formed part of her degree in Applied Social Sciences. Deborah left her native Canada and travelled in Europe for a period of time before settling in London where she worked for a few years in the art field. She resumed her counselling training in the West Midlands and was influenced by both the Psychodynamic and Transactional Analysis Approaches. Deborah spent a few years studying at post graduate level for both her counselling and teaching qualifications.
Deborah has a wide range of experience working as a counsellor; she has worked in colleges, universities, women’s shelters, employee assistance programmes, the NHS and private practice.
Deborah has been a counselling lecturer and trainer since 1995. Deborah was course team leader at Sandwell College in the West Midlands before moving back to London in 2000. Deborah became the counselling course manager at Harrow College where she developed the first Foundation Degree in Counselling in conjunction with Middlesex University. Deborah moved to West Sussex in 2007 and has taught at Northbrook College, Portslade Adult Learning, and private counselling training providers.
Deborah the Director of Cara Counselling Training and delivers training at Worthing College.
Deborah is married with two adolescent children. She enjoys spending her leisure time working out, spending time with her family and socializing with friends. Deborah is very keen on creative arts and theatre – basically she enjoys all that life has to offer!
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.
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 bell ringing.
Lynn Kiely
MA in Integrative Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy, University of East London. Post Graduate Diploma, Therapeutic use of the Arts, IATE. BA Honours, European Law & History, University of Lancaster.
Lynn is a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist. She is an integrative therapist, leaning in particular on the theories of attachment, TA and neuroscience. She also uses the Arts and play as a way to access suppressed and unprocessed emotion, which may not yet have words. Lynn has always worked in roles in which helping people to realise their potential is at their core. Lynn decided to follow her belief in life long learning and retrained as a psychotherapist after 15 years in senior HR roles in large Corporate organisations.
Lynn is passionate about working systemically with families and teams around the child in order to repair attachment ruptures and empower people to have more fulfilling relationships with each other. She has extensive experience of working within schools with children, staff and the parent/carer communities. She enjoys supporting schools in creating a therapeutic approach to their learning and environment.
Lynn is one of the tutors for the Level 5 Diploma in Working with Children & Young People at Cara.
Lynn lives by the sea with her husband, son and dog and enjoys being with her family and friends, sea swimming, walking and squeezing joy out of the little and big things in life.
Jon Carter
Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (Cara Counselling Training, Worthing College). CPCAB Accredited Tutor and Accredited member of The National Counselling Society No: NCS21-02204
After completing his diploma and qualifying with Cara counselling training, Jon went on to start his own private practice as well as continuing to volunteer as a counsellor at a local college where he worked for a number of years. Jon is an integrative counsellor, his core approach is person centred but he takes elements from a number of other theoretical approaches to inform his practice.
As well as a busy private practice, Jon also tutors on the Cara CPCAB Level 2 Counselling Skills course and is soon to start tutoring on the Cara CPCAB Level 3 Counselling Studies course.
Jon grew up in London and moved to Sussex in 2012 when he met his wife, they have 2 young children and they love living by the sea. Jon is passionate about music, he enjoys listening to it and playing it, he finds it to be a very good way to unwind.
Debbie Harwood
CPCAB Accredited Tutor and Approved BACP Member No: 00685186
Debbie is an experienced and accredited counsellor, who works as a counsellor in Durrington and Steyning. The majority of her working week is as the Lead School Counsellor at a secondary school in Worthing. Debbie has a wide experience of working with both children, adolescents and adults alike. When not working at school Debbie enjoys running a small private practice principally with adults working with a range of presenting issues.
Debbie focus at Cara Counselling Training is principally delivering the introductory course in working with children, young people and families whereby her 12 years of experience and knowledge in working within this genre can be shared.
Debbie has three adult children. She enjoys adventurous travel, walking her dogs, socialising and the arts.
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.
Emma Macdonald
Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (Cara Counselling Training, Worthing College) Level 5 Certificate Counselling Children & 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.
Jessica Milberg
Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (Cara Counselling Training, Worthing College), Diploma Level 5 in Counselling Children & Young People (Cara Counselling Training, Worthing College), Certificate in Fundamentals of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Sussex University). CPCAB Accredited Tutor and Approved BACP Member No: 00980933
After qualifying as a humanistic integrative counsellor with Cara Counselling Training, Jessica began her own private practice whilst completing her Level 5 Diploma in Counselling Children & Young People with Cara. Jessica currently works in private practice, secondary and college education, and the charity sector as a counsellor. Jessica is passionate about working with both adults, children and young people, with an interest supporting them through the challenges of transitional moments in life. Her parallel career as an artist and university tutor in the arts deeply influences her creative approach to client work.
Jessica is American born and raised and has been living on the South coast of England for the past twelve years and calls it home. She has embraced coastal living and enjoys walking her dog on the seafront and discovering scenic areas with her husband and daughter.
