About me
I am Person Centered Counsellor, combining specialist skills in Therapeutic Counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Bereavement Counselling and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), working together with you to help you gain clarity on life challenges and understand patterns of thoughts, feelings and emotions, and find a way forward together that feels right for you.
Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, low mood and depression, stress, addiction, low self-esteem, grief and bereavement, or simply feeling stuck. I’m here to listen with deep empathy and to support you in making sense of what you are experiencing.
Life can feel overwhelming and challenging at times and it’s not always easy to talk to family or friends and I offer a warm, comfortable space for you to be able to hopefully relax and feel supported.
I work part time for Cruse Bereavement as a Grief Counsellor as well as having a private practice.
We can have a free telephone call to discuss what you’d like or expect from your sessions and hopefully to put you at ease. Then if you like we can begin our sessions either face to face, online or by phone. There is no real amount of sessions and I don’t contract this. We will just take it step by step. Normally, weekly or bi-weekly to start with.
I also offer one off sessions for returning clients or new clients with something challenging to deal with and need some support to talk it through.
No matter what you are going through or hard it seems, you can feel some relief in knowing that there is always a way forward, even though it doesn’t always feel like it now.
I look forward to meeting you.
Training, qualifications & experience
- PCDip Person Centered Counselling, University Aberdeen
- Training in Foundations of Teaching in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. Oxford Mindfulness Centre, University of Oxford.
- Anxiety and Depression Beck Institute Philadelphia
- Level 5 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Counselling and Coaching. Stonebridge College
- Vicarious Trauma Cruse Bereavement
- Polyvagal Therapy Cruse Bereavement
- Supporting people with learning difficulties and grief, Cruse Bereavement
- Baby Loss , Cruse Bereavement
- Disenfranchised Grief, Cruse Bereavement
- Suicide and self harm. Cruse Bereavement
- Early Support, Cruse Bereavement
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
I also offer one off single session support for particular concerns and a concession for returning Cruse Bereavement clients.
