Trainer
Relationship and Psychosexual Psychotherapist & Clinical Supervisor
BA, MBA, PG Dip Psychosexual Therapy, Psychotherapy
Adv Dip Couple’s Therapy, Dip Trauma Therapy
Adv Accred GSRD Therapist
AccEMDR Assoc. Practitioner
AccCOSRT, MBACP, UKCP Registered
AccCOSRT Supervisor
Rima is a COSRT accredited and UKCP registered Relationship and Psychosexual Psychotherapist and a Clinical Supervisor with a history of working in sexual health and HIV since the nineties and continues to work in sexual wellbeing of patients and clients in the NHS and privately. Rima has worked in the cross government policy development for response to sexual violence as the national programme lead for 10 years.
Rima’s primary model of working is Humanistic-Integrative Psychotherapy and she runs her private practice in Fulham, London and on line. Rima is a trained Trauma Therapist and EMDR Europe Accredited Practitioner. She has a particular interest in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and is experienced in working with trans-generational and cultural trauma in relationship diversity.
Trained as a Teacher, Rima promotes education and training of practitioners. She has published papers on IPV, facilitated and spoken at various national and international conferences on sexual health issues, gender based violence & abuse over 20 years.
More recently, Rima qualified as an Advanced Accredited Gender Sexuality & Relationship Diversity (GSRD) Therapist and is a Clinical Associate and a Mentor for Pink Therapy. She’s a faculty tutor at the Contemporary Institute of Clinical Sexology (CICS) and is a Co-director of the CICS Diploma in Supervision. Rima is a freelance trainer and Level 1 Accredited Facilitator (Association of Facilitators).