About me
I am an empathetic, compassionate therapist eager to help you flourish - whether by overcoming anxiety, coping with depression, recovering from trauma, living with grief, building self-esteem, moving through life transitions, or improving relationships. You come to therapy with your own story, values, experiences, relationships, and personality. I will honour that by offering an environment of acceptance, respect, non-judgement, and curiosity. I believe you are the expert of your own life, and my goal is to help you see yourself and your relationships more clearly so that you can author your own life story with confidence.
I take an evidence-based, practical approach to therapy, using a variety of tools to help you experience and practice in session how you want to live in the real world. This involves exploring what your mind, body and emotions are telling you, and how your earliest relationships affect the way you relate to the world in the present. This will enable you to better regulate your emotions, establish healthy relationships and make meaning of your life.
I offer sessions in a variety of contexts to best suit your needs; including online, face-to-face sitting indoors, and outdoors for walk-and-talk sessions incorporating nature in the therapeutic process.
I believe we all need to be seen and accepted as we truly are in order to become the people we want to be: making choices based not on shame or fear but on our values and principles.
It would be an honour to work with you.
Training, qualifications & experience
Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling - Currently in the process of completing Counselling Tutor’s 80 hour online course. Learning outcomes are mapped to the BACP competences for telephone and e-counselling
Outdoor Therapy Training - Venture Trust two day course in developing theoretical and practical approaches and skills in working therapeutically outdoors.
Perinatal Counselling and Practitioner Training - 8 hour course developing understanding of Perinatal Mood Disorder and practice of counselling skills particular to supporting people with ante and post natal depression.
Internal Family Systems Therapy Training - Two-day training on theory and application of Internal Family Systems counselling theory. Training included interactive role plays and client consultation with counselling students, graduate student interns, and LMHCs.
Advanced Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) PESI - Completed over 12 hours of training in DBT theory, skill development, and role play led by specialist Stephanie Vaughn, Psy.D.
Victim Services Practitioner Training - Received designation from The Office of the Attorney General, Florida Crime Prevention Training Institute. Training included victimology, victims’ rights, the impact of crime, intervention strategies, cultural/ethnic issues, and presentations on child abuse, homicide, domestic violence, sexual assault, identity theft, victims with disabilities and the elderly populations, and cybercrime.
First Aid Arts Facilitator Certification - 3 day training for official certification and facilitated 5 Healing Arts Toolkit programs in jail, prison, and with human trafficking survivors. The Healing Arts Toolkit is a research-based arts program to care for emotional and psychological stress.
Outdoor First Aid - 16 hour training in first aid in various outdoor settings. Certificate from Co-operative.
Member organisations
COSCA is the professional body for counselling and psychotherapy in Scotland, and seeks to advance all forms of counselling and psychotherapy and the use of counselling skills by promoting best practice and through the delivery of a range of sustainable services. COSCA Counsellor Accreditation is a pathway to entry onto the UKRC. It is a requirement of all individual and organisational members of COSCA to abide by its Statement of Ethics and Code of Practice and be accountable to the Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
Life transitions
Loss
Expatriates
Therapies offered
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Fees
£60.00 per session
Additional information
Fees paid by bank transfer at least 48 hours prior to session.
Further information
Outdoor therapy sessions are available at Pollok Country Park, Queen's Park, or Rouken Glen Park based on suitability.
