Rory Lees-Oakes

I am counselling tutor and practising school counsellor based at the Higher Education Faculty of Warrington Collegiate, a college in the North West of England. I graduated in 2004, and hold post graduate certificates in supervision, education, child and adolescent therapy.

After qualifying, I stayed on at my counselling placement which became Tameside, Oldham and Glossop Mind as a counsellor, eventually becoming (in a voluntary capacity) chair and director of the organisation. My paid work was quite varied, I spent a year as a floating support worker for a mental health charity supporting people in their homes, followed by five years working part time as a support worker for Nacro, an organisation which helps ex-offenders re integrate into society. During this time, I taught Counselling at Tameside College in 2007 and I accepted a part time position at Warrington Collegiate as course leader for the Counselling provision, becoming full time in 2009 (I qualified as a teacher in 2008).