Kirsty Laing
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About me
I am an Edinburgh based counsellor, currently working online only, available for clients across the UK. I work with couples and individuals. I welcome diversity including all body sizes, abilities, races, sexualities, genders, working inclusively with GSDR (gender, sexual and relationship diversity), religions and political values. I have personal experience with Neuro Diversity; I welcome all clients curious, questioning, and diagnosed neruo diverse.
Training, qualifications & experience
Level 11 Diploma - COSCA / Relationship Scotland Couple Counselling
Diploma in EFT Tapping - Centre Of Excellence
I have experience working with couples and individuals with trauma histories, neuro diversity (adult ND or parents of ND children) LGBTQ+ couples and individuals, recovering from or understanding domestic abuse in childhood or relationships and CPTSD
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).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 - £65.00
Additional information
£50 for Individuals
£65 for Couples
Further information
I’m trained in working with an integrative approach. I explore my client’s history and needs, touching on different approaches, to get a sense of what will work best to connect with and process emotions. I favour working with a trauma informed approach, using felt sense, somatic, EFT tapping and regulation tools to help understand and regulate emotions. With couples I work with Emotion Focused Therapy, understanding attachment and regulation tools for more effective communication, bringing in tools from the Gottman Institute to aid reconnection.
