Kedzie Penfield
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About me
My work as an analytic therapist is based on the belief that we need reflection time with another person in a confidential safe space. From this space we can come up with solutions, explanations and understandings about ourselves in our lives.
I have always been interested in how we manage, contain or experience our internal histories and external situation. Our inner worlds play a part in the way we live our lives but our external world may impose unacceptable events on us that take thought as well as action to change.
I believe that our creativity can come into play to help us through particularly difficult times, so sometimes I introduce movement or drawing to take our work forward.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have been working as a therapist for the past 30 years and currently have my own practice based in Canonmills in Edinburgh. I also teach in the Counseling and Psychotherapy Department at Edinburgh University and supervise practitioners and students in counseling and arts therapies.
I originally trained as a dance movement therapist in the USA, where I qualified as a movement analyst in the 1970s. I then moved to Scotland where I worked in the NHS and voluntary sector as a freelance staff trainer and consultant in non-verbal communication skills, team building and workplace relationships and stress.
In the 1990s I trained as a psychoanalytical psychotherapist because I wanted to understand the power of words and how they work with our inner world. I qualified in Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Scottish Institute of Human Relations in 2002.
UKCP registered
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Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Support and life process skills
Therapies offered
Fees
£75.00 per session
Additional information
I offer an initial telephone conversation of up to a half hour free of charge. Once we start working I can negotiate a payment package depending on your circumstances.
When I work
I work Mondays to Fridays with variable availability.
