Sass Boucher

Biography

Sass completed her professional counselling training in 2015, and MSc at Keele University in 2016.
She is a very content and enthusiastic Counsellor, and has been working in her own private practice for 7 years. Private client work is varied, and includes referrals through an EAP from emergency services, health and social care and education settings.

In a previous life Sass worked for many years in third sector domestic abuse services, carrying out a variety of roles including front line support, trainer, project service manager, Local Authority Domestic Abuse Partnership Coordinator, and a trained Social Work practice educator.

Sass’s MSc research, 'Looking through a Lens of Terribleness', explored and aimed to understand professionals needs when they are working with and listening to those in trauma. Sass was asked to present her research at the BACP research conference, which led to an article published in the BACP Workplace journal and has also contributed chapters to two books around professional self-care, staying well in roles when we are supporting those in distress trauma or crisis. ‘Share a new social work model’ by Siobhan Maclean and ‘Conversations that Make a Difference,’ by Lisa Cherry.

Sass is also Co-Founder of SelfCare Psychology a non-profit training organisation, which was formed in 2017 due to the interest in training which arose from her MSc research at Keele.