Our Tutors

Debbie Owen - Co-Founder and Tutor

Debbie is a qualified BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists) Accredited Counsellor with thousands of hours of one-to-one counselling experience. She is also a qualified Supervisor.  Debbie has been a qualified counsellor for over 20 years, working in private practice, Further Education, supporting both students and staff. She has also worked as a mediator and developed courses for teenagers. Debbie has worked in delivering accreditted counselling courses since November 2011.

Debbie finds training counsellors of the future an extremely rewarding and humbling experience.

Sharon Hills - Co-Founder and Tutor

Sharon is a qualified BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists)  Accredited Counsellor and accredited member of NCPS (National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society). She has a Masters in Lifelong Education and Professional Practice and a Degree (Hons) in Social Sciences.  She has worked in both agencies and privately. Sharon has extensive tutoring experience having worked in Adult Education for over 20 years, teaching Psychology, Sociology, as well as Counselling. 

Sharon takes particular pleasure in facilitating self-development in others, and has worked extensively in this area with students who are embarking on a career in counselling.

Marisa Coulson - Tutor

Marisa is a qualified BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists)  Accredited Counsellor and Supervisor.

Since qualifying she has worked in IAPT agencies, with EAP clients and has her own private practice. This has given her extensive experience, covering a varied number of Mental Health issues. She has a background of working in prisons, initially in drug and alcohol services, facilitating and managing therapeutic programmes and family services. She later went on to write and develop her own resettlement project, working with long term prisoners.

Since joining DS Counselling Training Marisa says she has been proud of supporting and seeing the growth of their students.

Rebecca Newsom - Tutor

Rebecca is a qualified and accredited counsellor with the BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists) specialising in working with children and young people (CYP).

Rebecca has a background in secondary school teaching and first decided to undertake counselling training to help her support the students. She is a lead counsellor in two primary schools, works with clients ranging from 4 to 18 years in private practice and holds a L6 CYP qualification. She is also a qualified supervisor working with supervisees employed across the education and medical sectors as well as in private practice. Rebecca is experienced in teaching  L2, L3 and L4 Counselling courses.

Rebecca says she draws on her passion for creativity in learning to challenge her students and ignite their curiosity and finds the experience of teaching trainee counsellors exciting and inspiring.