About me
I first started seeing clients in 1998, whilst living in London. I opened this practice in 2007 when I came back to Scotland.
I am a specialist in providing Counselling for Men and Counselling for the LGBTQIA community.
Specific Counselling for Men or the LGBTQIA+ community are not areas that are covered in depth on most counselling courses.
I have spent many years attending specialist training courses for both client groups provided by the British Psychology Society, the Mankind Initiative, The Centre for Male Psychology and Pink Theapy.
I work face to face in Edinburgh and online across the UK/Europe and the Far East.
In counselling and psychotherapy you can learn/experience
- Being listened to and their experience accepted.
- Give yourself permission to talk about and experience your feelings.
- Silence the critical script that goes on in your head.
- Manage anxiety and stressful situations more effectively,
- Understand and manage your depression.
- Increase your sense of self-esteem, confidence and assertiveness.
- Explore which parts of your life you don't find fulfilling and satisfying and to
- Explore any changes you could make
- Support you to choose and change the correct and healthier for you
- Improve your relationships with your partner, family, friends and colleagues.
- Become aware of the effect of past events and decrease the impact they have in the present today.
- Acknowledge unhelpful habits and patterns in your life and create healthier ways.
Training, qualifications & experience
Professional Qualifications
Graduate Diploma in Humanistic Psychotherapy from Spectrum Training,(London)
Post Graduate Certificate in Psychotherapy and a further 4 years at an on going Post Graduate Group.2004
Certificate in Counselling (Birkbeck College, London) 1998
Specialist Male Psychology Training
- Men In Mind (University of Melbourne/Movember)
- Mankind Initiative Conferences
- New insights into masculinity; theory and practice.( Centre for Male Psychology)
- Male-friendly therapy: understanding therapy for men, men’s mental health, and help-seeking. ( Centre for Male Psychology)
- Improving boys' mental health, their understanding of masculinity and their experience of school. ( Centre for Male Psychology)
- BPS Male Psychology Network Conference (British Psychology Society)
- Introduction to Male Psychology and Mental Health (British Psychology Society)
- Training to support male victims of domestic abuse (Mankind Initiative
- Working with the Male Psyche (Physis Scotland)
- Men’s Experience of Intimate Partner Abuse’ webinar (Abused Men in Scotland (AMIS)
- Impact of Post Natal depression and death of new born children on men.
Specialist Training for working with gender, sexual and relationship diversity clients. ( All via Pink Therapy)
- Essentials in Gender And Sexual Diversity Therapy (Pink Therapy)
- Working with Chemsex. (Pink Therapy).
- Understanding Kink & BDSM (Pink Therapy)
- Non Monogamy November Series (Pink Therapy
- Working with LGBTQI young People (BACP)
- Working with partners of Trans-Identified People (BACP)
- Kink On Pink - a 4 part series of webinars for therapists. (Pink Therapy)
- Asexualities: intimacy and desire (Pink Therapy)
- I'm too sexy: understanding sexual compulsivity in gay and bisexual men (Pink Therapy).
Other Significant Training
- TA101 (Transactional Analysis)
- Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills (Spectrum)
- Anger Management (Spectrum)
- Assertiveness Training (Spectrum)
- Coaching for Counsellors (Rowan Consultancy, Perth)
- Intimacy, Sex and Affairs (SAPC)
- Group Work (Pink Therapy)
- Emotional impact of Living with epilepsy (Epilepsy Scotland)
- Cruse Bereavement training
- Trinity Hospice bereavement training
Voluntary Work.
Trinity Hospice (London) 2005 - www.trinityhospice.org.uk
Safe Space (Dunfermline) 2007 - 2009 - https://safe-space.co.uk For survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
Abused Men in Scotland Helpline(AMIS) January 2015 to December 2017. www.abusedmeninscotland.org
Abused Men in Scotland 2023 - 2025 Trustee.
Professional Memberships.
I am a Registered Member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. www.bacpregister.org.uk (I am listed in Edinburgh)
I am listed in The Directory of Pink Therapists.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I am also available for men who want to work on Personal Development.
I am a Kink/BDSM aware therapist and have experience of working with clients wanting to talk with an accepting therapist.
I am Chemsex aware and with experience of working with clients with this issue.
I am sex worker friendly with experience of working with both male and female workers.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£80.00 per session
Additional information
Sessions last one hour, 10 minutes longer than the standard session length. Longer sessions up to 2 hours can be arranged and are charged on a pro-rata version
All session are invoiced and payable in advance via PayPal. Only in exceptional circumstances will this not apply. This must be agreed in advance.
When I work
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Monday to Friday 1pm - 9pm in Edinburgh or online
Saturday 11am until 5pm in Edinburgh or online
Further information
Making an initial appointment.
I reply to enquires Monday through to Friday 11am -8pm
To contact me using the link on this page or the contact form on my website. www.amurdoch.com
When I call you and don't get a reply, I will leave a message when possible or send you an email to let you know that I have called. Once I have done that, I will wait for you to contact me again. I will not keep calling or emailing you.
I don't make initial appointments by text, email or any sort of social media.
