Hello
Drew Sebastian Heath, nice to meet you! In 2017 I was likely the youngest qualified therapist in the United Kingdom, at age 21, and have since gone on to practice and train in psychotherapy for 8 years, analyzing and supporting hundreds of clients, and constantly learning. My heart is locked into helping people date, because when it is bad, it's traumatic - yet when it is good, it's the most beautiful part of living.
My Story
Aphrodite's son
Dating has always meant the world to me. At 10 years old, I remember saying "Dear lord, I don't care about school, or sports, or money, or fame, or looks; if you give me one thing, make me good at dating." You would think I was the son of Aphrodite herself (god of love). True to the chaotic nature of Aphrodite, I fell in love easily, and easily I wore my heart on my sleeve, making offerings to the beautiful - and the heart would be rejected, lead on, or outright abused. Oh, I was anxious and self-loathing, let me tell you. So believe me when I say I know the pain of love.
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journey as a therapist (11 years)
Dating Therapy really began way back in 2013, under the name Kings Of Hearts: a website focused on helping with dating problems. I was 18 years old, with no therapy training, yet I knew in my bones the value this service has - because I needed it too.
Unlike pick-up-artistry of the time, it was never about manipulating people to like you - it was always about overcoming the anxiety that they need to like you - that you may have the esteem to be truly yourself, and the social understanding to stop making things painfully uncomfortable by misunderstandings.
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I loved self-help books and psychology. As a young man, I ran training courses teaching things like mindfulness and social skills. At 19 I started counselling training and loved it. I worked as a therapist for the NHS for five years, a number of other companies, and eventually ran my own practice. My focus was as a general therapist, all issues, but I knew my calling was to be more specific, an area that is criminally overlooked in therapy - dating.
clinical Experience:
Qualifications:
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NHS Counsellor for Young Adults (2017 - 2022)
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Private Practice Therapy (2019 - present)
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Kooth Therapist for Children and Young Adults (2022 - 2023)
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NHS Group Workshops on Anxiety (2021-2022)
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Counsellor at Canterbury College (2016 - 2017)
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Counselling supervision with John Rowan, who is known as founding father humanistic counselling (2016)
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Administration at PSICON Talking Therapies (2016)
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Conversation Coach - ran a weekly program teaching social skills to young people and those with ASD (2015)
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Fundamentals of Neural Linguistic Programing (training) (2015)
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Mindfulness - I ran a weekly course on mindfulness concepts and practices (2015)
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Kings of Hearts Coaching - Dating blog and coaching service (2013 - 2014)
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Teaching Assistant at Primary School (2011)
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​ABC Level 4 Counselling Theory (2015 - 2017)
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ABC Level 3 Counselling Skills (2014 - 2015)
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ABC Level 2 Counselling Concepts (2014)​
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Couples Counselling Masterclass, Human Givens (2020)
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Fundamentals of Couples Counselling, Juliet Grayson (2020)
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TES Honour-Based Abuse and Forced Marriage (2022)
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Educare Safeguarding Adults (2022)
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Kooth Domestic Abuse Intervention (2024)
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Working with Troubled Teenagers, Human Givens (2020)
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NHS Workshops on Play Therapy (2019)
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Mindfulness and Guided Imagery, Canterbury Christ Church (2016)
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Fundamentals of Neural Linguistic Programing (2015)
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Diploma in Creative Media (2011)