Elena Bain
Email me104 Hamilton Place
Aberdeen
Aberdeenshire
AB15 5BB
07885555827 / 07885555827
About me
As long as I remember I have held a deep interest in human relationships and their ways of being. Once my youngest child started school I began my formal training in counselling and psychotherapy And have since volunteered at the Terence Higgins Trust, working with gender and sexually diverse clients, and this remains at the core of my work today.
I have been privileged to volunteer as a staff and student and student counsellor at the University of Aberdeen and have also worked with adults and youths at Aberdeen Counselling and Information Service (ACIS) . As a volunteer at Cairns Counselling Service I saw both individuals and couples and have been employed byMental Health Aberdeen (MHA) since 2014 seeing both individuals and couples.
Training, qualifications & experience
Post Graduate Diploma in Person Centred Counselling - University of Aberdeen
Post Graduate Diploma in counselling Gender and Sexual Diversites - Pink Therapy, London
Certificate in Relationship Counselling for Gender and sexual diversities - Pink Therapy London
I am currently employed as a counsellor with MHA (Mental Health Aberdeen) and work with both individuals and couples.
I previously volunteered at THT (Terence Higgins Trust), Cairns Counselling and ACIS (Aberdeen counselling and Information Service & completed there Training course and I was a staff and student counsellor at Aberdeen University.
my gender and sexually diverse clients have included:
- bisexuality
- cross dressers
- gay
- heterosexual
- lesbian
- questioning
- gender fluid
- sexually fluid
- trans F2M
- Transgender
Member organisations
Areas of counselling I deal with
- Abortion
- Abuse
- Addiction(s)
- ADHD
- Affairs and betrayals
- Alcoholism
- Anger management
- Anorexia nervosa
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Anxiety
- Asperger's syndrome
- Attachment disorder
- Autism
- Avoidant personality disorder
- Bereavement
- Binge-eating disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Bulimia nervosa
- Bullying
- Cancer
- Career
- Carer support
- Child related issues
- Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME
- Dementia
- Dependent personality disorder
- Depression
- Disabilities
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug abuse
- Eating disorders
- Emotional abuse
- Family issues
- Feeling sad
- Gambling
- Gender dysphoria
- Generalised anxiety disorder
- Hearing voices
- Histrionic personality disorder
- HIV/AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infertility
- Internet addiction
- Learning difficulties
- Low self-confidence
- Low self-esteem
- Miscarriage
- Narcissistic personality disorder
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- Panic disorder
- Paranoid personality disorder
- Passive aggressive behaviour
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Physical abuse
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Postnatal depression
- Pregnancy and birth
- Psychosis
- Redundancy
- Relationship issues
- Schizoid personality disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Schizotypal personality disorder
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Separation and divorce
- Sex addiction
- Sex problems
- Sexual abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Suicidal thoughts
- Tourette's syndrome
- Trauma
- Work-related stress
- Young carers
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Gender and Sexual Diversity issues - including gender diverse and non binary people and those people who are maybe diagnosed with 'Gender Dysphoria' or 'Gender Incongruence'.
I am BDSM/Kink Knowledgeable
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Fees
£40 per hourly session for individuals
£50 per hourly session for couples or £70 for a 90 minute session.
if it is appropriate I am willing to see you on a flexible basis e.g. fortnightly.
Further information
I am currently attending Strathclyde University for a Certificate in Supervision And have space for one supervisee, free of charge, whilst I am in training. I am available to supervise via Skype.
Maps & Directions
Aberdeen, AB15 5BB
Type of session
| Online counselling: | Yes |
| Telephone counselling: | No |
| Face to face counselling: | Yes |
Practical details
| Sign language: | No |
| Other languages: | None |
Availability
I currently have some sessions available to see both individuals, couples (or more) and supervisees.
Types of client
| Adults |
| Older adults |
| Couples |
