Dr Philip Simon Glen
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About me
I am Simon Glen and I’m a Counselling Psychologist. In my work, I combine the client centred and non-judgemental elements of counselling with the wide evidence base of psychology.
I see my role as being there to work together with you to understand some of the difficulties you are experiencing, to help you draw on the positive resources you already have in life, and to help build some new skills using evidenced psychological approaches like Compassion Focussed Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (two types of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)).
In my career, I have worked with people facing many different types of challenges in their lives including living with long term health conditions (like cancer, epilepsy, and brain injury). I have worked with people experiencing problems with anxiety, depression, grief, loss, post-traumatic stress and people who have concerns over alcohol use.
Whatever we are experiencing in our lives, my belief is that we are not broken, we are trying the best we can to cope with circumstances in life that we have not chosen. Our responsibility for facing this begins at this point. In our work I would aim to have you at the centre and work together with you in the here and now, to help you meet your goals for the future.
As a former Counselling Psychologist in Training I am aware of the expenses involved, and so I can offer a discount for Trainees undertaking mandatory therapy as part of their course. I can offer supervision to trainee counsellors and trainee applied psychologists- particularly in the orientations of Person Centred Therapy, and Compassion Focussed Therapy. Please contact me to discuss your requirements.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications
- Doctorate in Counselling Psychology: Glasgow Caledonian University
- Post-graduate Diploma in Brain Injury Rehabilitation - Queen Margaret University
- B.A. (Hons) Psychology - Glasgow Caledonian University
- Supervision skill training- NHS Education for Scotland
Experience
I have worked at:
- Maggie’s Forth Valley,
- NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Lothian
- Epilepsy Scotland
- Glasgow Council on Alcohol.
Prior to training as a counselling psychologist, I worked for the organisations Headway Glasgow, and Edinburgh Headway Group with people with brain injury, family and carers, for the NHS Forth Valley in advocacy roles with older people, and in charities with people with mental health problems.
I am currently employed part time in NHS Lanarkshire.
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
As I work using Compassion Focused Therapy I very often work with people experiencing Shame, Guilt and Self-critical thoughts. This can lead to various types of withdrawal and avoidance- which are sometimes the behaviours we work on reducing.
I generally take a non-diagnostic approach to the psychological distress we all experience. The format of the directory encourages us as therapists to tick the boxes of the different conditions we work with. Our mental wellbeing doesn't easily "fit in a box" though. I prefer to see us all as individuals trying to cope as best we can with the circumstances of our lives. To paraphrase Gabor Mate and Oprah Winfrey: It is not “what is wrong with you?”, rather it is “what happened to you?”.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£85.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
If you would like a brief phonecall before booking a session this can be arranged. Please contact me by email to organise.
The fees are £85 per 50 minute session.
Counselling Psychology trainees undertaking mandatory therapy can enquire about a discount to this fee. The concessionary rate is £70 per session.
Supervision is offered at £60 per 50 minute session.
When I work
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The evening sessions are generally face to face sessions.
I have some limited availability for face to face sessions in my Falkirk office. Other sessions can be run online.
Further information
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
T.S. Eliot
This quote from encompasses the idea that any change we make involves an ending and maybe loss: like giving up a behaviour we held on to; or a story we had about ourselves; or the passing of an important relationship. I find this useful to keep this in mind when I and the people I work with want to make a change. There might be sadness about that ending too.
Eliot’s message is that this ending is bound together with the possibility and positivity of a new beginning. So we can be ambivalent about change even when we know it’s the right thing for us.
