Where are our previous students now?

LC&CTA keeps a close association with and interest in the career development of many of our previous students. We also take an active part in helping our students take their place in our profession.

Here are just a few of our previous students’ professional successes:



Tony Taylor

Qualified at Lewisham College under LC&CTA Tutors and still in contact with us

Tony Taylor now holds his Certificate in Education and works as a Tutor for LC&CTA and is a sessional counselling at a South London School and Counselling Agency.

Bev Rose

Qualified at Lewisham College under LC&CTA Tutors and still in contact with us

Bev Rose works in her own Private Practice and as a sessional counsellor for LC&CTA.

Tony Donohue

Qualified 2009

Tony Donohue is currently taking his Masters Degree in Counselling & Psychotherapy and continues to work as a counsellor for a South London Agency.

Robert Sookham

Qualified at Lewisham College under LC&CTA Tutors and still in contact with us

Robert Sookham is currently studying at LC&CTA for his Counselling Supervisor Qualification and he continues to work in a variety of settings as a counsellor.

Michelle Denny Brown

Qualified 2009

Michelle Denny Brown is now employed by an Agency in London as a Counsellor researching Black African and Black Caribbean Men's access to sexual health advice and services, as a Helpline Counsellor for an Agency who supports those who have been sexually abused and she continues to work as a Counsellor in a South London GP Practice.

Lyla Smith-Abbas

Qualified 2009

Lyla Smith-Abbas qualified in 2009, works as a Drama Therapist and as a Counsellor for LC&CTA as well as currently being engaged in setting up an exciting Diversity Counselling project which is seeking government funding.

Carey Buchannan

Qualified 2010

Carey Buchannan works one evening a week as a counsellor for a community project in Clapham Junction that focuses on issues such as depression, anxiety, relationships and sexuality amongst other things; she will be starting a part time post with this Agency in a few weeks. Carey also works with Place 2Be at a school in Southwark and continues her employment as a social worker for 2 days per week.

Candy Fathers

Qualified 2007

Candy Fathers is in the final year of taking her Certificate in Education and is a Tutor at LC&CTA. She also works as a counsellor for two South London Counselling Agencies.

Serena Mullings

Qualified 2009

Serena Mullings qualified in 2009 and now works as both a sessional counsellor for LC&CTA and is the manager of an extensive multi-discipline project facilitating young offenders to turn their lives around.

Tim Walker

Qualified 2009

Tim Walker qualified in 2009 continues to work for the Cassel Centre as a Counsellor and as a Charity Manager assisting people with Learning Difficulties.

Martin Williams

Qualified 2008

Martin Williams qualified in 2008 now works as a sessional counsellor for the Enrichment Team at Lewisham College and as a Mentor for the Stephen Lawerence Centre in Deptford.

Lynne Stephens

Qualified 2008

Lynne Stephens qualified in 2008 works for Quaggy Community Counselling Service as a counsellor and as a Skills Facilitator and Tutor for LC&CTA. Lynne also has her own Private Practice.

Leon Gayle

Qualified at Lewisham College under LC&CTA Tutors and still in contact with us

Leon Gayle works as a counsellor with male offenders.

Ian Holt

Qualified 2009

Ian Holt is in the process of building his Private Practice.

Paul Moody

Qualified 2008

Paul Moody qualified in 2008 now works as a part-time Mentor at the Stephen Lawerence Centre in Deptford.

Gemma Deran

Qualified 2009

Gemma Deran is continuing to develop her private practice and her project idea working with young people in therapeutic groups. The latter is being set up as a Social Enterprise Company known as 'Chrysalis Creative Communities'.

Mavis Larty

Qualified 2008

Mavis Larty works as a Learning facilitator for both a South London College and LC&CTA as well as continuing to develop her Private Counselling Practice.

Jacqui Neil

Qualified 2009

Jacqui Neil is considering embarking on teacher training in order to become a counsellor/trainer in the fullness of time and is currently working as a counsellor in a South East London agency.

Paul Badham

Qualified 2009

Paul Badham is now employed by a London Borough as a Parent Worker/Counsellor; working with parents of teenagers (aged 11-17) providing early intervention support, 1:1 sessions and group work in order to avoid further social exclusion and family breakdown. Paul is managing and developing this new and rewarding project.

Miguel Wiggan

Qualified 2007

Miguel Wiggan works for an extensive project in Surrey counselling children who have been excluded or who are in danger of being excluded from school.

Manda Glanfield

Qualified 2007

Manda Glanfield works in a number of Agencies as a counsellor and assisted LC&CTA in developing its Public Relations Policies and Profile. She has now developed a ‘gardening therapy provision’ at a Counselling Service based in Chatham, where she works one-to-one with young people. It's another way to invite a relationship-based therapeutic encounter to unfold. Loads of metaphor; clients get to grow their own vegetables etc - life/death, growth/loss, success/failure, the hidden, the unexpected, cycles. However, Manda writes “I am a Chris Brown protégé, person-centred in my heart, so the psychotherapeutic work comes first and the garden second!”

Lisa Bent

Qualified 2009

Lisa Bent works as a counsellor for a South London Counselling Agency and is in the process of completing her Masters Degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Angela Sweeney

Qualified 2008

Angela Sweeney qualified in 2008 set up and works as the Agency Manager of Quaggy Community Counselling Service.

Charlotte Pool

Qualified 2009

Charlotte Pool continues to work in a South London Counselling Agency.

Lisa Bent and Tony Donohue

Qualified 2009

Lisa Bent and Tony Donohue achieve their Masters Degrees in Counselling & Psychotherapy.