About me
Are you looking for some support but not sure where to begin?
Anxiety, stress and low mood can leave us feeling overwhelmed and difficult to know how to manage this both in our personal and professional lives. Talking to a therapist can be quite daunting. However, I truly believe talking through a problem can really help.
I can help you to identify and understand issues you are struggling with and together we can come up with a plan on how to help you overcome these.
I am passionate about empowering you to become your own therapist by helping you find coping strategies using CBT and DBT that are uniquely tailored to work for you. These coping strategies can help you in any situation life brings.
I offer one-to-one CBT sessions both face-to-face in Midlothian and also online sessions via Zoom. During these sessions, we will work together to address any issues you are facing and help by introducing some coping strategies to help you manage them.
I have vast experience in mental health and some of my most recent work has been working through work related dress, neurodiversity, social anxiety and gender dysphoria.
I also specialise in supporting people with liver disease and liver transplant having worked in that area for 11 years.
I am kind, patient and am invested in you. I can help you learn useful skills that can help you to cope better no matter what life throws at you. Over the last decade, I have worked with the NHS, charity sector and private practice both creating and managed self-management programs to help people to better look after their mental health.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Diploma - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy & Group work - Centre of Therapy 2019
- Master's Degree (MSC) in Health Psychology - University of Stirling 2014
- BA (Hons) Applied Psychology - University College Cork 2012
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£30.00 - £50.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer a concession rate for students and people on income support.
