The Emotional First Aid Authors…
Dave Smith:
Dave originally qualified as an RMN (Registered Mental Health Nurse). Since then Dave has trained in Family Therapy, Systemic Practice and Group Therapy.
With a long background of working within CAMHS, Dave is an experienced Practitioner who has worked with both children and young people and brings a wealth of knowledge in both training and creative techniques.
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Presently Dave is engaged with both Rape Crisis and Brookvale (Tier 3 Youth and Adolescent Mental Health Service for 14-18 year olds) within the Southampton area.
Dave is one of the authors of the Emotional First Aid course, and was instrumental in developing the Primary Emotional First Aid. Dave has taught both EFA and Primary EFA in Windsor, Portsmouth, Southampton, Gosport and Fareham.
Jacquie Kelly:
Jacquie is a Humanistic Integrative counsellor, accredited with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and a qualified supervisor. She has worked as a therapist with adolescents for over 20 years, in a range of different settings, including voluntary agencies, further and higher education, youth services and the NHS.
For the last 8 years, she has worked at Brookvale Youth Mental Health Service, a Tier 3 psychiatric clinic for young people aged 14-18 in Southampton.
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She also provides clinical supervision to counsellors from No Limits, Youth Information, Advice and Counselling Service, as part of her role. Having completed a foundation course in Systemic Therapy, she has a particular interest in systemic ways of working, with individuals and in supervision, as well as with families, and in the effect of organisational context and systems on our work.
Jacquie has developed an interest in teaching over the last 5 years. She is one of the authors of the EFA course, and teaches courses in the Southampton area. She has taught on the Southampton CAMHS Mental Health Awareness course for a range of professionals working with children and young people, is part of the CAMHS Medical Student Teaching Team and teaches on diploma and degree courses in Counselling at Eastleigh College.
Stuart Gemmell:
Stuart began his career in Social Work in the 1970’s switching later to Nursing and qualified as an RMN (Registered Mental Health Nurse) in 1985. He later gained a BSc (Hons) in Nursing Studies. Stuart carried on studying and has a part MSc, a Cert Ed and is a qualified Group Therapist.
Stuart has an extensive background of working with young people and has worked almost exclusively within the youth mental health service since 1986.Currently Stuart is the Strategic Lead for Primary Mental Health Services for Southampton CAMHS which involves engaging with tier one workers, especially in the Education sector.
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As part of his role he developed, taught and facilitated the 14 Week Mental Health Awareness course, was one of the original CAMHS medical student teaching team, has taught on foundation and diploma Counselling courses and degree courses in Child, Youth & Community. He received an honorarium from Winchester University for contributing to the development of the BSc in Child, Youth & Community degree.
Stuart is one of the authors of the of the Emotional First Aid course, helped contextualise EFA within the Primary School age setting. He has taught both EFA and Primary EFA in Windsor; Portsmouth; Southampton; Gosport; Fareham; Thurrock; Lambeth; Southend; Wokingham; Bracknell Forrest; Slough and Kent.
The Emotional First Aid team…
Paul Jetten:
Paul started his career in youth work as a volunteer mentor for care leavers before starting at Fairbridge Solent in 2006 as a 1:1 support worker. During his time there he developed an interest in drug work, mental health and counselling.
Paul had attended courses in Reality Therapy and Tier 1 & 2 substance misuse and the 14 week Mental Health Awareness course before attending the pilot cohort of EFA. Paul went on to become an EFA Trainer after the initial run of four pilot cohorts and was successful in applying for a secondment to Southampton PCT to assist with the rollout of EFA in June 2009.
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In 2010 Paul was given a year contract to stay with Solent Healthcare as the Emotional First Aid Coordinator, and has worked alongside Stuart Gemmell revising the course handbook and delivering training to the various development sites outside of Southampton.
He has since completed his PTLLS level 4 and is currently finishing a DipHE in Gestalt Counselling with an honorary counsellor position at Brookvale Child & Adolescent Mental Health unit in Southampton. Paul has facilitated and taught on the Southampton CAMHS Mental Health Awareness course and delivered both Primary EFA & Y/P EFA, and the Trainers EFA course in Southampton, Hampshire, Lambeth, Thurrock, Southend, Wokingham, Slough, Bracknell Forrest, Portsmouth and Kent.
Ally Krause:
Ally started her administration career in 2000 as a Travel Agent. In 2001, Ally took the role of Customer Services Administrator for Aviva Healthcare, becoming a Team Coach in 2004.
Shortly after this time Ally was promoted to Supplier Relationship Manager within the Outsourcing team at Aviva. After leaving Aviva in 2008, Ally came to work at the NHS as Secretary to Stuart Gemmell and EFA Administrator.
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In her spare time Ally has studied for an A-Level in Human Biology at Totton College. After completing her A-Level, Ally was successful in securing a place on the Health and Social Care BSc Honours degree at Southampton University and will graduate this year! Ally has also completed the Young Person’s EFA course as well as the 14 week mental health course and has a passion for early intervention in mental health.
