About me
An established, confidential and nurturing counselling space to allow you protected time for self awareness, understanding, discovery and self compassion.
Breaking down together what can seem overwhelming and finding new ways to manage can bring a change in our behaviours and mood. Allowing for change in how we live, manage and visualise our future.
I have been in Private Practice for over 7 years. I am qualified to use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and am person centred in my approach.
I am a registered & listed member of the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP).
Private therapy is offered both in person within Largs counselling rooms, walk & talk appointments and online via google meet.
I have worked as a CBT Therapist within an NHS Community Mental Health Team and now solely in Private Practice. I continue to lecture on the HNC Counselling Skills course at Ayrshire college.
Integrating and considering many therapeutic perspectives allows therapy to be unique to what we may discover about what's causing you to be distressed, unhappy and or confused.
Many approaches can assist in helping you to begin to offer yourself a different perspective and motivation to enhance your life and your responses to inevitable life events and challenges.
Understanding ourselves and our life situations can begin to shift the discomfort of emotionally distressing times. Insight and behaviour change can provide healthy new ways to care for ourselves and build our confidence.
Supported in taking one small step at a time to change our current situations. The relationship or alliance we can build will enable you to begin to explore what's keeping you stuck, what's driving it and ways that you can unlock yourself from past thinking and behaviours that you no longer feel useful or comfortable.
We all at times in our lives need a safe space to truly listen to ourselves and be listened to. A confidential , non-judgemental connection assisting you explore what you need to hold on to and what you may need to let go of.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Registered member of BACP
- Post Graduate Diploma Cognitive Behavioural Therapy accredited by Napier University
- COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skllls GCTC
- Scottish Mental Health First Aid / Scottish Mental Health First Aid - Young People
- Suicide TALK
- ASIST - Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
- Seasons for Growth / Young People Bereavement Training Certificate
- Post Graduate Diploma HRM, Napier University
- NC Training Practice, Edinburgh College
- BA Community Education. Strathclyde University
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Certificate
- Walk & Talk Certification
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.
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
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