Relevant qualifications

Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice

Post Graduate Diploma in Systemic Teaching Training and Supervision (DSTTS) (Distinction)

MSc in Systemic Therapy

Advanced Award in Social Work

NVQ level 4 Management

Certificate in Training and Development (ITD)

Diploma in Applied Social Studies and CQSW

Professional registration

AFT Register of Systemic Supervisors

United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy

I hold my own professional indemnity insurance

Dr ElIzabeth Day

Professional experience

I have worked in a range of residential, social work and health settings. Residential settings include: a Home Office approved bail hostel for women, a residential home for looked after children and a psychiatric in-patient unit for adolescents. Social work and health settings include: a children’s social work team, managing a hospital social work team, managing a community care team, and developing HIV services. I worked for eleven years as principal family therapist in a child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS).

Dr ElIzabeth Day

Professional experience

I have worked in a range of residential, social work and health settings. Residential settings include: a Home Office approved bail hostel for women, a residential home for looked after children and a psychiatric in-patient unit for adolescents. Social work and health settings include: a children’s social work team, managing a hospital social work team, managing a community care team, and developing HIV services. I worked for eleven years as principal family therapist in a child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS).

Special interests

I created and co led the first NVR group programme in partnership with colleagues in Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. Elisabeth Heismann and I co-authored the NVR groupwork manual Non-violent Resistance Programme published by Pavilion in 2010. I chose to make the NVR group programme the subject of my doctoral research and was awarded my degree by the University of Bedfordshire in 2015. Along with Dr Julia Jude and Elisabeth Heismann I have edited a new book called Non-violent Resistance Innovations in Practice.

Since I retired from full time employment in the NHS I have developed a portfolio career. I teach and supervise on the Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice, I am a deputy editor of Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice.  I am involved in Public and Patient Involvement initiatives around cancer, and I maintain a small private therapy and supervision practice.

My pronouns are ‘she’, ‘her’, ‘hers’.