Caitlin Buon
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About me
I provide therapy to adults of any age for up to 20 sessions. I work with individuals, couples, and relationships. Sessions are offered in person, online or by phone.
I value and respect difference and diversity and work with all people, beliefs, and ways of being - including gender, sexuality, and relationship diversity.
I offer a caring and confidential space to explore what is happening in any area of your life, how to bring meaning to a situation or find ways to go onward.
My approach is to work with each person’s unique experience and way of making meaning about their life. I work in a collaborative, co-creative and compassionate way that respects each person’s autonomy and wisdom to know or discover what they need. It is not my role to diagnose or pathologize a person’s experience. Rather it is to accompany the people I work alongside, with a focus on how the person experiences themselves, others and their lifeworld.
I am committed to what Johnella Bird (2003) has described as the 'development of processes where discovery is privileged' over and above a strict adherence to the 'structural boundaries produced by models'. I have evolved an approach that draws on ideas and practices that support this process and especially from narrative, psychodramatic and attachment-based therapies.
My approach is best described as phenomenological and dialogical, meaning that I stay as close as possible to what is happening for the person who is trying to give meaning to their experience and giving regard to the dialogue emerging within that person's struggle and between us in our conversations.
The other critical aspect of my way of being as a therapist is in giving space to knowing and naming how the use of power in a person's life has created or contributed to their happiness, situation or suffering. For me, a great deal of a person's suffering, my own included, is entirely understandable where power has been used to marginalize a person and 'other' them. Issues around social justice are therefore central to my understanding of the ongoing process in becoming a person and a therapist.
I am open to working with any aspect of a person’s life unless I have a reason to recommend that you work with another more suited therapist/facilitator which we will explore together. Please get in touch with any questions and to discuss availability.
Training, qualifications & experience
My practice as a therapist began in Australia some 35 years ago having come from a background in social justice and community development working within a wide range of contexts with individuals, families, groups, and organizations. This breadth of experience in social justice was profoundly important in shaping my approach to psychotherapy.
Some of my roles in Australia included:
- Executive Director of a network of alcohol and other drug counselling and rehabilitation services in the community sector
- Director of a charity organization advocating for people with an acquired brain injury and their families
- Family Mediator
- Workplace Mediator specializing in discrimination and harassment
- Investigator with a state Government Ombudsman
- Psychotherapist, trainer and facilitator in private practice
After arriving in Scotland in 2001 I co-established a specialist consultancy in conflict resolution, training, and conducting external workplace investigations of discrimination and harassment in large organizations and government departments.
I returned to full-time practice as a Therapist in 2010 and completed further training as a Psychodrama Psychotherapist.
During this period I also worked as a sessional group therapist with the Priory Hospital in North London and completed extensive ongoing training in developing my specialist practice in complex trauma and dissociation.
EDUCATION and SPECIALIST TRAINING
UK 2001-Present
- 2024 Certificate in The Listening Hour, Jonathan Fox
- 2015 Advanced Diploma in Psychodrama Psychotherapy (Psychodynamic and Attachment-Based), Birmingham Institute for Psychodrama
- 2014 Higher Certificate in Creative Action Methods in Individual and Group Psychotherapy (person-Centred), Northern School of Psychodrama, Scotland
- 2014 International Certification as Team Leader in Trauma Therapy using the Therapeutic Spiral Model (Psychodrama), Dr Kate Hudgins TSI International, Virginia USA
Highlights of Specialist Training in Complex Trauma, Bodywork, and Dissociation including:
- Assessment of Complex Developmental Trauma and Dissociation, Dr Kathy Steele
- Somatic Trauma Therapy, Dr Babette Rothschild
- Enactive Trauma Therapy, Trinity of Trauma and Structural Dissociation, Dr Ellert Nijenhuis
- Authentic Movement, Therapeutic Presence, Infant Movement Development and Somatic Psychology, Institute for Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy, Linda Hartley (UKCP)
AUSTRALIA 1980 to 2000
- Bachelor of Science (Physiology) Macquarie University
- Certification in Narrative Therapy I, II, III, Dulwich Centre
- Diploma in Community Counselling (Addictions), Riverina College of Advanced Education
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
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UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
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This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£60.00 - £80.00
Free initial in-person, telephone or online session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Individual- £60 60 mins
Relationship- £80 75 mins
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Further information
I also offer groups and facilitation services. See my website for details of the Women's Group I am offering in the Scottish Borders in April-May this year.
"Nurturing your Lifeworld"
