about me   I am Heather Burkinshaw and I work in the East of England, mainly in the Cambridge, Ely, and Newmarket areas. I am a British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) registered counsellor having completed 450 hours of a BACP accredited integrative counselling diploma. BACP is the self regulating body of Counselling and Psychotherapy. I am also a member of Play Therapy UK (PTUK) a self regulating body for playtherapists.   I like to work with the creative arts and use paints, clay, sandtray and other art media, as well as conventional listening skills.   I work with adults, young people, children and young people with learning difficulties. I have undertaken play therapy and counselling to young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder including Aspergers in residential and school settings, and I understand the constraints that those conditions may impose. I have worked with children in a school setting and young people, including survivors of sexual abuse, sexual offenders, and young offenders.