About me
Welcome
Your emotional safety is central to how I work. I understand that healing cannot be rushed, which is why there is no expectation for you to share traumatic experiences before you feel ready. Your sessions will feel thoughtful, conversational and collaborative with space to reflect and explore at a pace that feels comfortable for you. I will meet you with compassion, curiosity, patience, and respect, recognising the courage it has taken for you to reach out.
My approach focuses on what happened to you, and how you learnt to survive it, rather than looking at what is wrong or how to fix it. Many of the ways we learn to cope, perhaps through people pleasing, perfectionism, or emotional disconnection, serve an important purpose at the time. Together, we'll explore how your experiences have shaped these responses and develop a greater understanding of the protective role they've played in keeping you safe and accepted.
As we deepen your understanding of these protective responses, we can begin to create the conditions where new ways of relating to yourself and others feel possible. This isn't about forcing change or getting rid of parts of yourself. It's about gently building a sense of safety, self-awareness, and self-compassion, so that old patterns no longer feel like your only option.
Through empathy, connection, and compassionate exploration, we'll work together to understand your responses and ways of surviving to strengthen your relationship with yourself, and create an environment where growth and change can happen.
We may work well together if you would like to:
- Explore experiences or relationships that continue to affect you
- Make sense of patterns that no longer serve you
- Understand yourself with greater clarity
- Get to know the person you are beneath the ways you learnt to survive
- Reconnect to yourself
- Develop self-compassion
- Create healthier relationships and boundaries
- Learn to tend to your own needs
- Experience meaningful personal growth and change
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold a DipHE in Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy and undertake continual professional development as part of my membership with COSCA (Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland).
Member organisations
COSCA is the professional body for counselling and psychotherapy in Scotland, and seeks to advance all forms of counselling and psychotherapy and the use of counselling skills by promoting best practice and through the delivery of a range of sustainable services. COSCA Counsellor Accreditation is a pathway to entry onto the UKRC. It is a requirement of all individual and organisational members of COSCA to abide by its Statement of Ethics and Code of Practice and be accountable to the Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Additional information
My fees are £50.00 per session with block bookings available on request.
When I work
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My working hours are between 09:30 and 14:30, Monday - Thursday.
