My therapeutic career started at Relate in the early 1980s. After 10 years as a couples counsellor, I decided I wanted to work at greater depth with individuals. So I undertook a Masters degree in psychodynamic counselling at The University of Birmingham.

My degree not only enabled me to work as a student counsellor at Warwick and Coventry Universities, but also to return to The University of Birmingham as a clinical tutor and lecturer on the same course where I had been a student.

In the late 1990s I set up in private practice and worked with numerous clients with problems related to childhood trauma and abuse. Then in 2012 one of my clients showed obvious signs of dissociative identity disorder (DID), a condition I knew little about. I felt ill-equipped to help her because trauma-related dissociation had not been covered in my core training.

However, I soon started to learn much from seminars led by experts in the field of DID. I also trained in an energy psychotherapy called advanced integrative therapy (AIT) - which led to me becoming an accredited AIT practitioner. Later, my internal family systems (IFS) training proved invaluable.

As soon as I began to integrate energy treatments with my talking therapy I started to see some extremely positive therapeutic outcomes. I witnessed this in many dozens of clients over the years; however, none were more life changing than those described in my book, The Girls Within.

Contact me: gillfrostTGW@gmail.com