Lead Tutor, Diploma in Clinical Supervision
Skye attended Glasgow University and studied Psychology and Theology, and then went on to do Theology to Honors level. She predominantly focused on Eastern Traditions and her undergraduate dissertation focused on a cross comparison of different sexual attitudes and practice in Islam and Buddhism.
Skye then moved to London to continue her Higher Education and completed a three-year Masters programme in Integrative Counselling. She completed her placement at One in Four, a specialist charity working with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
For her MSc research, Skye conducted a thematic analysis looking at the modifications psychosexual therapists make to traditional approaches when working with clients who have experienced childhood sexual abuse. Skye became a fully registered member of the BACP upon graduating in 2016.
Skye then went on to do her two year specialist diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy.
Within this time Skye worked for just over a year as an Employee Assisted Programme therapist and trained in Solution Focused Brief Therapy within the company. She worked with a number of organisations, including the Teacher Support Helpline. As part of this work, she wrote two articles that were published in The Times Educational Supplement relating to teacher wellbeing.
From this role, Skye took on a management and lead psychosexual therapist position as part of a partnership project in central London focused on sexual health. Skye built the counselling and psychosexual service at the start of the project and then ran the service, managed the counselling team and held a caseload of counselling and psychosexual therapy clients. In addition to these responsibilities, she was the lead for the LGBTQ+ and Chemsex working groups within the service.
In 2019 Skye became a lecturer and module leader at The University of Greenwich, primarily teaching on the undergraduate degree of Psychology with Counselling. She also assisted on the teaching of the MSc in Therapeutic Counselling.
That year she completed her PGCert in Higher Education, and qualified in 2020, becoming a Fellow of the HEA (Higher Education Authority).
Skye moved to The University of East London in 2022 and became a co-programme leader of an MSc in Integrative Counselling. She gained Senior Lecturer status during this time and was the module leader for the first year of the programme.
In addition to teaching at UEL, Skye has been a visiting lecturer at Roehampton for their MSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Skye trained as a clinical supervisor with CICS with the first cohort on the Diploma in Clinical Supervision. She qualified in summer 2023, and then became a support tutor on the programme for the following cohort 23-24. She became lead tutor for the programme in September 2024.
In May 2024 Skye left Higher Education, to become a founder of The Contained Clinician, a supervision and CPD membership for qualified and trainee counsellors, psychotherapists and psychosexual therapists.
Skye has also worked as a Mentor under the BACP mentorship scheme and has been a board member for Family Matters, a charity supporting survivors of childhood sexual abuse, for five years until the end of her tenure this year.
Alongside her work with CICS and TCC, Skye runs a busy private practice with clients and supervisees. She is an accredited member of COSRT, a full clinical member of UKCP, a registered member of the BACP and a Fellow of the HEA. Skye is dedicated to supporting the development of robust, ethical and high-quality therapists, and this echoes throughout her supervision and teaching practices.
