About me
Hello :)
Whatever is going on for you, I am interested and care to know. I am here to accompany you on the unique journey of being you. My therapy room is in Kirkcudbright ,where we can meet face to face. If this is too far to travel, I am also available to meet online.
I am a warm, insightful and grounded Psychotherapist. I place psychological safety ( in a nutshell , for you to be completely you) and empowerment, at the heart of my practice. I offer a calm, attentive presence where you can feel met as you are, with care, respect and definitely no judgement.
My professional background includes being appointed as a Non-Executive Director within Scottish Government, where I trained in Values Based Reflective Practice. This experience deepened my commitment to ethical, assertive and reflective leadership. It strengthened my ability to hold layers of complexity, whilst remaining grounded in values-led decision making and compassionate leadership.
I have undertaken training in trauma healing and emotional intelligence. This has enhanced my capacity to work with emotional nuance, attunement, and relational awareness.
I am clinically trained in functioning and attachment-focused approaches. What this lends me is a thoughtful, and psychologically attuned lens to how early relationships shape our present experience. I can support you in developing deeper insight, greater emotional stability, and more secure ways of relating to self and others.
Across all aspects of my work, I bring depth, warmth, and a strong belief in our capacity to grow, heal, and lead our lives with greater clarity, compassion, and authenticity.
I provide you with a confidential and safe space. I will be alongside you, your co-pilot, where we will navigate the mountain peaks together.
Good therapy comes from within a safe, trusting, empathic and truthful relationship. This is what I bring to you as well as a high level of psychotherapeutic training and experience with a great sense of humour, warmth and playfulness. You may even leave sessions smiling sometimes :).
In exchange for your courage, I offer you an authentic invitation to explore unfamiliar and unchartered emotional territory, in the hope that useful new solutions for safety and action will emerge. Always remember, you are the expert on your life. You are the boss of you, and I am the boss of me. Us two bosses can come together and the posibilitiies are endless :)
Psychotherapy can help when life feels hard. We will work as a team, so you feel supported, encouraged and empowered to bring about meaningful changes to increase your wellbeing and enjoyment of life.
Text or Email me for an appointment. All that you bring is very welcome. I look forward to hearing from you.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold six years of core integrative Psychotherapy training and also hold the following qualifications:
Trauma- Focused CBT
Certificated Diploma Trauma and Dissociation - European Society for Trauma and Dissociation.
Acceptance and Committment Therapy
Somatic Trauma Therapy - certificated training with Babette Rotshchild
Diploma in Traumatology
(STAIR) Skills Training in Affect and Interpersonal Regulation - * Evidence based treatment for PTSD
Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM)
Cognitive Processing Therapy
Functional Analytical Psychotherapy - Levels 1 and 2
Attachment studies and Mentalising.
My main training and focus s is on complex trauma and attachment. Relationships can often go very wrong yet they don't start this wsy. I have training and experience in Narciissitic Abuse recovery and have trained witrh Dr Peter Salerno in Traumatic Cognitive Dissonance. (Effects of narcissitic abuse)
I have completed training with Professor Jane Monkton Smith and Laura Richards on coercive control. I also am trained to administer the DASH ( Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Honour Based Violence) risk assessment to evaluate danger of victims of domestic violence.
I hold a specialist interest in recovery from controlling and abusive dynamics. We can heal and recover and thrive and live our lives with power, clarity,meaning, value and purpose.
I am a member of the Internatioal Society for Trauma and Disscoiation and the Instute of Leadershop and Managment.
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Coercive control and stalking
Assertiveness
Pet bereavement
Estrangement from family
Boundaries
People pleasing
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Hello 😊
To book a session with me ,the first step is for us to arrange a consultation call. This lasts for 30 minutes and costs £15. The call exists for me to understand more about what you are seeking ,and for you to see if I am the best person to help you. To arrange this please either text me on :
074644 33054
or email me at
gfynn-ember1@outlook.com
For the first session, which is 1.5 hours the fee is £65 ., I request that payment is made before our session commences. This can be done via bank transfer.We can arrange all of this arranging to work together. 🌸
When I work
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I have flexibility around when I can work. I offer a Sunday as sometimes it is difficult to find space if you are working full time.
Further information
Therapy can aid a process where life can start to feel good and friendly.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Gill 🌻
