About me
At times life can be difficult. It can even leave us exhausted and shattered - worse still, it can leave us feeling helplessly lost.
This can be caused by many things such as anxiety, depression, feeling low, angry or lonely, and stresses in our relationships - whether that’s family, friends or work.
As a psychodynamic counsellor, I have worked with many individuals and couples from all walks of life for a number of years - offering both short and long-term support either in person in Edinburgh or online.
I’ve worked extensively in all areas of support, including family therapy, relationship difficulties and breakdowns, childhood traumas and the impact of this on your life.
Our first meeting will look to determine what you want to get from our sessions and, from there, to develop a plan on how we can get there.
I believe that lasting change begins with understanding the deeper layers of our emotional lives. Together, we’ll explore how past experiences and early relationships shape the way you see yourself and relate to others today. My aim is to create a trusting, compassionate space where you can find clarity, freedom, and, put simply, feel stronger.
I can help you make sense of things and understand yourself better - and by bringing my skills and knowledge I can help you to resolve complicated feelings or find ways to live with them. I’ll encourage you to feel safe so you can lay out everything that is troubling you and together we can look to make sense of those things that seem difficult and daunting.
In our sessions we will reflect on different systems you have been involved with, i.e. family, friends, work and relationships. We will begin to see any patterns emerging and the role that you may take within different systems.
Looking through this lens, together we can begin to understand behaviours, both yours and others, that may have been formed consciously or unconsciously.
These patterns will have formed in the past and are often out of your awareness but our work allows them to be understood - and change becomes possible.
If you feel anxious about coming for counselling and you’re wondering if it’s going to be right for you, please feel that you can email me or give me a call if you would like to chat things over before making a decision or even if you would just like to get a sense of who I am and how we may work together.
I work either online or face to face at my practice in Young Street, Edinburgh.
Training, qualifications & experience
I graduated with the University of Edinburgh Pg Dip Counselling and Counselling Approaches
Pg Certificate Systemic Family Counselling with the Scottish Institute of Human Relations
Certificate with Relationship Scotland in Couple Counselling
80 hours training in online and telephone counselling completed
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
£55 per session for individuals
£65 per session for couples
Concessional rate available too
When I work
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Face to face counselling sessions are on Fridays. All other days are online which I can be flexible with.
Further information
I currently offer face to face and online counselling
