Our Greenwood Team
At Greenwood, our tutors are at the heart of everything we do. Each brings professional expertise, real-world experience, and a genuine passion for helping others. All of our tutors are fully qualified counsellors who continue to practise privately, ensuring that the skills and knowledge they teach are lived, not just learned.
Our tutor team also work in complementary helping professions, showing that counselling skills are valuable beyond the therapy room. Guided by integrity and respect for confidentiality, we share honest, real-life insights in our courses. Put simply, we practise what we teach.
The who's who...
Meet Sarah
Name: Sarah Henry
Role at Greenwood: Director and tutor
Courses: CSKL2, CSTL3 and TCL4
Counselling interest: Race and racial identity
Sarah Henry is the founder and director of Greenwood Counselling Academy. Since beginning her journey as a counselling tutor in 2019, Sarah has dedicated herself to creating a training experience that is rigorous, inspiring, and rooted in integrity. She founded Greenwood to bring her wealth of experience to a space where future counsellors can grow personally and professionally, developing the skills, confidence, and ethical grounding needed to make a meaningful difference.
Alongside leading Greenwood’s day-to-day operations, Sarah works as an External Verifier for CPCAB, ensuring that Greenwood’s training is up-to-date, industry-recognised, and of the highest professional standard. She is also a published author, contributing to People Not Pathology (2023) and a forthcoming book for counselling tutors, due September 2025.
Sarah maintains a private counselling practice, believing that living the practice herself allows her to bring authenticity, insight, and practical experience to her teaching. She also works as a consultant on race and racial identity, helping organisations develop awareness, DEI strategies, and stronger relationships across diverse teams. These are skills she brings into her teaching of relationship-focused work.
Sarah has delivered workshops and spoken at conferences for BACP, CPCAB, Counselling Tutor, OnlinEvents, BAATN, Roehampton University, Loughborough University, and numerous private counselling organisations. Her vision for Greenwood is clear: to raise the standards of counselling training and support students to build meaningful, successful careers.
Outside of working, I love...being out in my garden. growing dahlias and peonies with a cup of tea very close by.
Meet Sam
Name: Sam Brien
Role at Greenwood: Tutor
Courses: CSKL2 and CSTL3
Counselling interest: Criminal justice rehabilitation
About my work:
Sam is a Greenwood tutor and a practising Person-Centred counsellor. With a natural talent for listening and empathy, counselling felt like a calling, and she brings her whole self to every client and student interaction. She is passionate about building relationships that are safe, growthful, and grounded in respect and unconditional positive regard.
Beyond counselling, Sam works as a Personal Wellbeing Advisor, supporting men in the probation system and those recently released from prison. In this role, she provides emotional support and psycho-education to help people navigate significant challenges, applying the same empathy, insight, and professional skills developed through her counselling practice.
Her approach reflects Greenwood’s ethos: seeing people for who they are, nurturing potential, and fostering environments in which individuals can grow with confidence.
Outside of working, I love... hiking, climbing, reading fiction and of course hanging out with my 3 kids and encouraging the adventurous spirits in them.
Meet Stacey
Name: Stacey Holt
Role at Greenwood: Tutor
Courses: CSKL2, CSTL3 and TCL4
Counselling interest: Politics and social justice
About my work:
Stacey is a Greenwood tutor and Person-Centred counsellor with a passion for teaching, learning, and community engagement. She believes that counselling is a lifelong journey of growth, and she brings her experience and curiosity to every classroom, inspiring students to develop the skills and confidence to thrive.
Committed to social justice, ethics, and the power of connection, Stacey has applied her counselling expertise in diverse community projects. She helped establish a counselling agency serving a deprived local area and sixth-form college students, volunteers for a bereavement charity, and serves as a school governor advocating for children’s mental wellbeing.
Stacey also has a keen interest in politics, particularly in areas that intersect with mental health, equality, and community wellbeing. Her understanding of societal structures and advocacy informs her teaching and ensures that Greenwood students are encouraged to think broadly about the role of counselling in creating positive social change.
Her work reflects Greenwood’s ethos of combining professional excellence with meaningful impact, fostering an environment where students are supported to grow as both practitioners and individuals.
Outside of working, I love... stories! Whether it be in the form of a good book or film or listening to someone’s adventures. I also love cups of tea and exploring new places.