Profile

Antonia Behan 
 Personal and Professional Development Psychologist
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BSc (Hons) Psychology MBPsS 
MSc Child and Adolescent Mental health and Psychological Practice
Professional Qualified Coach MICF PCC
Certified CBT Practitioner
​Certified Individual Trauma Specialist
Facilitator in Leading from Your Heart
Empowering Catalyst in co-creating your peace,
freedom, happiness and success.

Hello,

My name is Antonia Behan. My credentials are: MSc Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Psychological Practice , BSc Psychology (Hons) MBPsS. I am a qualified Professional Coach MICF PCC, certified CBT practitioner and certified individual clinical trauma therapist, with graduate membership of the British Psychological Society, Member of the BPS group in coaching psychology, and with professional membership of International Coaching Federation.
 
My Vision: I partner with you to empower the development of your greatest possibility and potential. I support a diverse range of adults and teenagers from multi-cultural backgrounds to facilitate  healing, growth and transformation.
I am passionate about prevention, and love to facilitate the growth of awareness and knowledge  through psycho-educational seminars and workshops in schools and community spaces. In addition, I love to work with families and organisations to facilitate change, healing and growth; enhancing communication, integrating important values, supporting psychological well-being, and enabling greater success. 
 
 It is my greatest and most passionate intention to empower living from the heart and moving into harmony with self and others, through individual coaching, books, seminars, workshops and courses. 

My Values: Love, Family, Friends, Creativity. Support, Natural Beauty, Freedom, Meaningful Purpose, Peace, Health, Happiness, Fulfilment and Making a Difference. 

My Mission:  

• To provide empowering psychological coaching for adults and teenagers
• To support family systems and organisations to develop a culture of leading from the heart, and to foster success and wellbeing. 
• To present psycho-educational seminars and workshops to schools, colleges, corporations and communities,  providing awareness on coping skills to support the prevention of mental health related issues and the development of psychological well-being.
• To give people the knowledge and skills to heal and grow from trauma
• To enable people to realise their possiblity for a happy and successful life and empower them to make significant progress towards realising their dreams and goals. 
• ​To be an empowering voice for living in harmony

Beliefs:

• The ability to choose your response is your freedom
• Your truth is not the truth, it is a perception, and perceptions can be changed
• Love is a choice
• The power of love can dissolve fear
• Anything is possible
• You can turn a tragedy into a love story. 

Methodology: I provide a person-centered coaching approach, through which i integrate cognitive behavioral coaching, the art of acceptance, creative play, mindful awareness, solutions-focused coaching, systemic coaching, trauma therapy, transaction analysis, motivational interviewing, and holistic therapies (relaxation practices, colour healing, and meditations). 


Qualifications:

2020: Professional Qualified Coach (PCC)   -The International Coach Federation.
2018: MSc Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Psychological Practice - Edinburgh University. 
2017: Associate Qualifed Coach (ACC) - The international Coaching Federation
2017:  Professional Diploma Transformational Coaching - The Performance Solution (ICF accredited In-person training). 
2013 - 2016: BSc Psychology (Honors) The Open University BPS accredited (MBPsS)
2003-2004: Certificate Life Coaching  - The European Coaching Foundation, UK. (ICF accredited programme). 
2002: Certificate Healing.The Healing Foundation, UK.

Experience and Professional Development. 

2019  - Opened a private practice in Sotogrande providing coaching and therapy to adults and adolescents. Continue with corporate leadership coaching, and psycho-educational workshops for schools. 

2017  -  Private personal and professional development coaching for adults and teenagers at Atlantic Clinic (Nueva Andalucia) and Ocean Clinic (Gibraltar). Executive Coaching contracts in Gibraltar.  Psychological well-being workshops and counselling support for Schools.

2016/2017:  School personal development coach and intervention specialist at Laude College, Marbella. Providing individual performance development, behavior and motivational coaching, and stress and anxiety management skills for teenagers, with class interventions and group workshops for teenagers. 

2016:  Creative Therapy workshop facilitator at a Cortijo Care (Drug and alcohol rehabilitation and psychological wellness clinic, Marbella, Spain). Facilitation of creative therapy workshops and psycho-educational lectures for adult inpatients.

2014-2015: School personal development coach at Sotogrande International School. Providing psychological, emotional and social well-being support for teenagers, psycho-educational talks for parents and group workshops for teenagers and teaching staff. 

2013-2014: Assistant Clinical Psychology Internship (Marbella, Spain). Observation, psychological evaluation, assisting with the in-patient clinic, and applying psychological coaching and counselling for individuals with anxiety-related disorders.

2004-current: Private practice personal and professional development coach with individual private clients, group workshops, educational and corporate teams. 

Continuing Professional Development Studies and 2020: 
2022 -  Body-based self-regulation for trauma healing - Camea Peca (Arizona Trauma institute)
2020 - Clinical Trauma Specialist CCTS-I  Robert Rhoton (Udemy)
2020 - Certified CBT Practitoner. Kain Ramsey (Udemy)
2016 -  Cert. Extended DISC psychometric testing (The Performance Solution)
2016 - Mindfulness Training
2014 - Cert online: Keeping Children safe online. NSPCC
2013 - Cert online: Addiction: dealing with addictive behavior. Harvard Medical School 
2013 - Cert. online: Lifestyle medicine for stress management. Harvard Medical School
2013 - Cert online: Treatment of depression;emerging issues. Harvard Medical School
2013 - Cert online: Assessment and treatment of anxiety in a primary care setting. Harvard Medical School. 


Other training and experiential Courses:
2004 - 'The Journey' (Brandon Bays) Practitioner training - UK. 
2002 -  Cert. Healing Therapy (touch therapy) -The Healing Foundation UK
2000 - Colour Healing, The Temple of Colour UK. 

Research:
Since 2004, I have been on a personal quest  to explore: how the mind works, our role in affecting change in the world; the potential of the human mind for self healing; the mind-body-environment connection;  why we suffer and how we can overcome individual and collective suffering, heart-centered living, and towards creating harmony in our world. 

Personal Development
 I try my best to walk my talk and continue to develop and upgrade my professional training and personal development.  I am interested in learning more about a holistic approach to preventing and treating dis-ease,  disharmony and mental health 'disorders' and how working with the mind, body and environment, together, and with children,  parents and teachers, together, we can create  positive and powerful transformations, and happier, healthier families. I continue with my own therapy, coaching, supervision and professional development training.

Professional Association:
The British Psychological Society.
The International Coaching Federation

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