Elizabeth Riddell
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About me
I have over a decade of experience and a love for this work. I hold sessions in Glasgow city centre and in the heart of Pollok Park.
About Me
I am queer, and I care a lot about working affirmatively with gender, sexual and relational diversities. For five years, I managed a counselling and support service for LGBT Health and Wellbeing in Glasgow, and for a further three years I held a supervision group for counsellors in the Edinburgh service.
I am also a trained birth attendant/doula (training with Amma 2023 and Red Tent Doulas 2024), and I volunteer as a pregnancy, birth & postpartum companion with Amma Birth Companions.
Further back experience includes counselling within a university research clinic and a charity for people affected by cancer in Glasgow, and with workers of a women's centre for minoritised ethnic women in London.
What I offer
My core training is in person-centred therapy. I offer a warm, open and interested space for all parts of you and the messiness of life to be met with sensitive understanding and straightforwardness. I believe in the potential - and, at some level - the knowing in each of us to move towards what we need in life - but difficult conditions may mean we push down on this knowing in order to survive this world, and this can cause further suffering.
Whatever is going on for you, whatever it is that you would like to be different – I offer a supportive relationship to meet you in this and help you find a deeper understanding and acceptance about yourself and what you are experiencing. From there, choices and possibilities for change open up to find our way back/forward to ourselves.
I work with the here-and-now in you and in our relationship, alongside nervous system wisdom, to find ways that are most supportive to you to do the work you have come for.
More information about me and my practice can be found on my website: https://www.elizabethcounselling.org/
Training, qualifications & experience
- Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (2016)
- Diploma in Counselling Supervision, Physis Scotland, Edinburgh (2022)
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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£65.00 per session
Additional information
My standard rate is £65 for a 55-minute session.
I reserve some spaces at a reduced rate for those where this is not accessible. Please be in touch, and we can discuss what is possible. In general, I can offer up to a limited number of 10 sessions at any reduced rate that is affordable to you.
If you are in a position to comfortably afford a higher rate, even an extra £5 per session, I heartily invite this as part of a pay-it-forward system. This helps sustain reduced-rate options.
I offer a free online call - up to 20 mins - to help us see if we are a good fit.
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