This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I have been in this field for 30 years. I trained in Core Process Psychotherapy at the Karuna Institute, and followed this by 3 years of Group Analysis, to what was then pre-diploma level. I would describe the work I do as mindfulness-based psychodynamic psychotherapy.
The important question that people who come to us need to ask and we need to answer is:
WHAT IS THERAPY FOR?
’Each of us is engaged (in the struggle) to more fully come into being as a person whose experience feels alive to himself or herself.’ Thomas Ogden
We may view psychotherapy as a way of helping you with symptoms which are distressing you, however, this is only the beginning of an answer. What are these symptoms expressing, indeed why these particular ones, rather than another set of equally distressing ones? What we come to very quickly is the person who is experiencing these symptoms, a person in a world of others. What does it mean to be the person you are, and to be suffering in the way in which you are? From the very beginning, together we are thinking, and feeling, about the relationships in your life, and the meaning you have made of what has happened to you. The therapeutic relationship is there to help us recognise the parts of ourselves we have had to put away. We can then creatively discover, and make sense of ourselves, becoming more fully alive and become more the selves that we really are, in the process.
I also offer clinical supervision for groups, and for individuals. I am a UKCP registered Psychotherapist and work in the centre of Edinburgh and also in the West End of Glasgow
I am seeing people in person, and also working online.
Training, qualifications & experience
Core Process Psychotherapist, registered with UKCP since 2000
Supervision training with the Karuna Institute 2006
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. 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
£55.00 per session
Additional information
£55
When I work
I am potentially available for counselling and counselling supervision for those who are unable to attend in person.
Further information
I have experience of working with people who are non-binary and trans-gender.
