About Verity Green
From Lived Experience to Professional Experience:
Dr Verity Green, PhD, is an MBACP-Accredited and HCPC-Registered Integrative Counsellor and Physiotherapist based in Bedale, near Catterick Garrison and Richmond, England, and the founder of Connections Training & Therapy. She focuses on trauma, high-performance and impact, disability, long-term health conditions, and the mind-body connection, with particular interest in persistent pain, concussion and brain injury recovery, sensory impairment, and vestibular disorders. Verity is a fluent British Sign Language (BSL) user and qualified DeafBlind Communicator Guide, making her one of a small number of UK therapists able to offer a range of accessible therapeutic support options.
Quick Facts
Role: Integrative Counsellor & Physiotherapist
Practice: Connections Training & Therapy, Richmond, England (hybrid delivery)
Accreditation & Registration: MBACP (Accredited), British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy; Registered with the HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council)
Clinical background: Integrative Counsellor (Level 6 Diploma, Interpsyche Kent & Medway NHS Trust) and Physiotherapist (BSc, Leeds Metropolitan University)
Doctorate: PhD: Psychological Therapies & Mental Health - Engagement & Co-production, Leeds Beckett University
Accessibility: Fluent British Sign Language (BSL) user; Level 3 DeafBlind Communicator Guide
Languages: English, Sign Languages (native/bilingual proficiency)
Areas of Interest
Trauma-informed and compassion-focused therapy
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) - Approved Provider
Serving and military veterans and their families, blue light personnel and high-performance backgrounds
Adoption and family support
Persistent pain, long-term conditions, and disability
Concussion, brain injury, and post-concussion symptoms
Sensory impairment, sensory integration, and vestibular disorders
Deaf and Deafblind clients: proficient in a range of communication strategies and BSL
My Approach
Verity works from an integrative biopsychosocial model, integrating the theories such as the Compassion Focused Approach and the Power Threat Meaning Framework to understand each client holistically, including the impact of systems rather than through a single diagnosis or symptom. Her practice is built on inclusive, accessible, user-led care, shaped by direct experience working within deaf or disabled communities and by research into self-advocacy, and the challenges and tensions that this can bring.
Qualifications (Selection)
PhD, Psychological Therapies & Mental Health: Leeds Beckett University
Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certificate Programme: Greater Good Science Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2023–2025
Trauma Risk Management (TRiM) Practitioner: Strongmind Resiliency Training, 2021
Level 3, DeafBlind Communicator Guide — Institute of BSL, 2014–2015
Level 6, British Sign Language: Institute of BSL, 2012–2014
Diploma (Level 6), Integrative Counselling: Interpsyche Kent & Medway NHS Trust, 2010–2012
MA, Social Research: University of Leeds, 2010–2011
University Diploma, Psychotherapeutics: University of Derby, 2008
PGCE, Education: University of Huddersfield, 2004–2005
BSc, Physiotherapy: Leeds Metropolitan University, 2000–2003
Certificate, Adoption Support Counselling: The Albany Centre with Barnardo's
Level 3, Mental Health First Aid: Royal Society of Public Health
Train the Trainers, Mental Health First Aid: MHFA England, 2009
Independent Advocacy & Independent Mental Health Advocacy: City & Guilds, 2010
Professional Background (Selection)
Verity has worked across the NHS, military charity, and education sectors for over 20 years, combining clinical counselling with physiotherapy and teaching.
Integrative Counsellor & Physiotherapist, Connections Training & Therapy (2021–present)
Practice Development Practitioner, Op COURAGE Veterans Mental Health High Intensity Service, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (2022–2023)
Advanced Physiotherapist, County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust (2021–2022)
Counsellor (MBACP), Help for Heroes Recovery, Catterick Garrison (2017–2021)
Senior II Physiotherapist, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust (2003–2007)
British Sign Language Teacher, Researcher, Project Development:
Beyond the Therapy Room
Verity is also a record-breaking endurance athlete. Her lived experience of identity, resilience, and pushing through physical and mental limits directly informs her compassion-focused, trauma-informed approach to therapy: the first British Deaf woman to swim the English Channel solo, the first British Deaf Ice Miler, and a three-time Deaflympian and World, European, and British record holder.
Why we should work together:
Co-Creation
You're the expert on you. My expertise is on the journey and change. Let's empower you for your path forward.
Your Story, Not the Diagnosis
A diagnosis can open doors to support, it's just one piece of your story. I believe in working with you as a complete person.
Wealth of Experience
Over 22 years of experience working within the NHS, Social Care and Third Sector Charities, navigating systems is not new.
Connections Training & Therapy
Unit 9, Hunters Hill Farm, Crakehall, Bedale, DL8 1LA
Space available in Catterick Garrison DL9 3AY and DL9 4HP for Armed Forces.
About Verity Green
MBACP (Acc) and HCPC Registered. Covering Catterick Garrison, Richmond, Bedale, RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire and Online. Therapy and training with trauma, long term conditions and disability, adoption, care leavers, managing high conflict environments in the home, recovering from high control, and managing change from intense environments (such as sport, Armed Forces Community).
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