This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Life in general and relationships in particular can be a struggle. Whether it is the shock of an unexpected life event or simply a build-up of stress from difficulties and disappointments throughout your life, you can be left feeling lost, unfulfilled, and overwhelmed by thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that you can't control or make sense of. This can leave you overwhelmed, exhausted, and unable to manage your daily life.
As your counsellor, I can offer a peaceful and non-judgemental space where I hope you will feel safe enough to open up about what may be happening in your life, mind, and body and ultimately feel less alone with your worries and stress. I am especially interested in helping you identify unhelpful patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that may keep you stuck in the past or overwhelmed in the present. Identifying the origins of these patterns can lead to increased self-awareness and a reconnection to your most authentic self. This kind of personal growth can naturally facilitate change as you experience an improved sense of well-being that improves the quality of your relationships and, therefore, your life.
I have a particular interest in supporting people through bereavement and loss of all kinds, such as job loss, relationship difficulties, family issues and marriage/relationship breakdown. However, I will work with whatever you bring to counselling with great care, empathy, and compassion. Whatever you are going through, I don't want you to face it alone.
Taking the initial steps to reach out for help can be difficult. I can assure you of a gentle and kind response, with a half-hour phone introduction to ensure you feel completely comfortable before deciding to work together.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Human Relations and counselling from Robert Gordons University and Human Development Scotland. I have experience supporting individuals working through grief and loss of all kinds, periods of transition, and feelings of abandonment, isolation, and rejection.
Alongside my small private counselling practice, I am a Community Worker for two 3rd sector charites, one that offers compassionate support after baby loss, and the other that supports victims and survivors of domestic abuse. I am also part of the bereavement counselling team at Strathcarron Hospice, supporting individuals to work through complex and unresolved grief.
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
£50.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
When I work
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Further information
I like to work flexibly, giving clients the choice of working weekly or fortnightly, either online or in person and this can change over time, as you need.
Although I do offer outdoor therapy (walk and talk), for safeguarding reasons, I only offer this after 3-4 sessions indoors.
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