Experience
Before training as a psychotherapist, I worked in a variety of research, policy and practice roles relating to children, family and community wellbeing.
Current roles
- Integrative psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice.
- Supervisor and tutor at Black Psychotherapy.
- Teaching roles with the Feminist Therapy Network the Minster Centre.
- Doctoral researcher at Goldsmiths University (Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies Department).
- Freelance researcher – recent collaborations include with Tapestry, Wellbeing for All, YMCA, She Made it and the Anna Freud Centre.
Therapeutic training and memberships
- Qualifications: MA in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (the Minster Centre in collaboration with Middlesex University); Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (the Minster Centre); Diploma in Integrative Counselling (the Minster Centre). Placement completed with Spiral Holistic Therapy Centre.
- Membership bodies: MBACP (number: 397753 ); UKCP (number: 2011191150); and Black, African and Asian Therapy Network.
- CPCAB Level 6 Certificate in Counselling Supervision (Headstrong Counselling)
A selection of work
- UberTherapy – the narratives and politics of digital therapy. Author, Elizabeth Cotton, in dialogue with Jumanah Younis and Claudia Coussins.
- Conference presentation – Revisiting a mixed-race story of burnout: a Black feminist healing perspective at the Kaleidoscope: Mixed and Multi-Racial Heritage in Therapy conference (November 2025).
- Reflections on Black feminism, womanism and therapy (2025), the Feminist Therapy Network.
- A whole setting approach to wellbeing (2025). Co-written with Kate Moxley, Tapestry Childhood Education Platform.
- Practitioner guidance co-written with Dr Abi Miranda to accompany children’s story Sometimes happy, sometimes sad by Laura Henry-Allain MBA (2024), the Anna Freud Centre.
- Workforce wellbeing in the early years (2024). Webinar with Dr Shaddai Tembo, Dr Valerie Daniels, Dr Wanying Zhou and Laura Crossan, the Anna Freud Centre.