About me
Summer 2025: Notice
Are you interested in brief time-limited therapy (6 sessions) to address a particular issue or to get a feel for therapy? I am offering this as a reduced rate package so get in touch to arrange a free introductory conversation — it's a good starting point and will give you a a sense of what working with me would feel like.
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Whether you're dealing with anxiety, relationship issues, trauma or simply feeling stuck, I offer a compassionate and collaborative space where you can make sense of your experiences.
I work psychodynamically, a traditional talk therapy model, where sessions feel like conversations — I encourage you to lead the conversation, bringing whatever is on your mind. In turn, I use clinical experience and theory to offer interpretations, insights and perspectives that hopefully bring clarity and understanding for you.
Why have therapy?
Maybe something doesn't feel right. Perhaps you wonder why you think and behave in certain ways, or reapeat patterns that aren't great for you. Maybe you'd like to understand the relationships in your life.
Whatever the reason, therapy can help you process events, find balance, face challenges, or instigate change. It's somewhere you can explore what's going on for you in a private and tranquil space.
We work together to understand your situation and facilitate positive change by:
- Connecting events from the past to the present
- Looking at things from different perspectives, and
- Addressing the parts of your life where you feel stuck
I have particular experience with:
- Grief and loss
- Identity: including gender and sexuality, neurodiversity, values and beliefs, culture, ability and disability
- Relationships: including relationship to self, family, non-monogamy, polyamory and kink
- Anxiety, stress, depression and depressive episodes
- The decision to have – or not have – a family including infertility, assisted fertility, adoption and surrogacy
- Processing or considering an autism / ADHD diagnosis
- Trauma and adverse early life experiences
I welcome enquiries for these, or any other challenge you might be facing.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Tutor: Human Development Scotland (2025)
- Counsellor: Edinburgh University, Student Counselling Services (since 2023)
- Psychotherapist in private practice (since 2023)
- Counsellor: Bright Light / Relationships Scotland (2022-2024)
- PGDip Human Relations & Counselling (Human Development Scotland)
- BSc Computer Science & Psychology (University of Stirling)
- COSCA Counselling Skills Certificate
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Please get in touch for an initial conversation to discuss what's going on for you.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£35.00 - £65.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My standard fee is £65 per session. I also offer a limited number of concessions -- 6 sessions for £35 per session -- for those with low or no income (students, unemployed and refugees).
When I work
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Don't hesitate to get in touch to ask about availability as my schedule changes fairly frequently.
Further information
Check the FAQs on my website to understand more about counselling and therapy: https://annebrassier.squarespace.com/faqs (copy and paste the URL into a new browser window).
I consider myself an LGBTQ+ ally.
