Janine Cousins
Director and Co-founder ACT: BA(Hons), CQSW, DipAc, PGCE (Post Compulsory), Practice Teachers Award. Member of Institute of Further Learning (No. AB066557).Janine qualified as a Registered Acupuncturist and Acupressure Massage therapist eleven years ago and has continued to work in private practice. Janine has fourteen years of experience of providing training and supervision with adult learners in a range of educational and work-based settings. Janine worked as a Probation Officer for over eleven years and before that as a Social Worker and Youth Worker. She has continued to work within the community on a voluntary basis for over twenty years.
Most recently Janine was the Management Committee Chairperson for a Tier Two and Tier Three Drug and Alcohol Agency and Management Committee member for a residential rehabilitation unit.
All her work is founded in her commitment to facilitate those interventions that affirm the assertion that all individuals have the potential to change and that this is enhanced with the appropriate and timely interventions. Consequently Janine has combined her extensive range of academic, professional and personal life experiences to contribute to informing the ethos and professionalism of ACT.
Carole Bishop
Director and Co-founder ACT: BSc(Hons),GDAS, DipAc, ITEC MBAcC,
Carole has a degree in Psychology, qualified as a Registered Acupuncturist eleven years ago and is a member of the British Acupuncture Council. Carole is also trained in Counselling, Swedish and Acupressure Massage, Reiki, Electro-Stimulation Therapy and Bowen Technique. After working in private practice she applied her knowledge to the specialist field of substance misuse in a busy ‘street drugs’ agency where she treated clients on a drop-in basis.
Carole went on to become the manager of Tier 2 and Tier 3 services for problem drug users in York and North Yorkshire. These services included: needle exchange and drop-in; psychosocial interventions; criminal justice and outreach. Carole has worked in the field of substance misuse for ten years and has extensive experience as a caseworker and in supervising those working in this area. She consolidated key elements of this role in her work as a Regional Tutor for the accredited Northern College of Acupuncture in York.
Carole has continued in her acupuncture and drug and alcohol related studies and has recently completed the Graduate Diploma in Addiction Studies at Leeds University.
In order to focus on her work for ACT Carole has reduced her hours and works part time as a Senior Practitioner in a Tier 2 & 3 setting. Carole is still using acupuncture in her work with drug and alcohol users.