Catherine Orr Deas

Catherine has provided domestic abuse training for Shelter for over 15 years. She has spent ten years working within Women’s Aid refuges with women and children made homeless by domestic abuse as well as working as a counsellor and trainer for Childline. Catherine is a person-centred counsellor with experience in domestic abuse counselling and spent 15 years training counsellors. Catherine also worked as a counselling coordinator for this project for several years. She was Vice Chair of the AVA project and worked as an external domestic abuse trainer for the Metropolitan Police Service.