Dr Robert Dow
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About me
I am a professional counsellor, offering confidential counselling to individual adults. I work with clients from many diverse walks of life, cultures, genders and sexual orientations from a sex-positive and gender-affirming standpoint. I am committed to working in an inclusive way that both accounts for and values diversity.
Before training in counselling, I was a Lecturer in Music for many years (University of Edinburgh) and have found my experience in Music to have a great deal of relevance to counselling, as much of music making is about listening and about finding resonance with other people, becoming attuned to them.
I have often found therapy to be genuinely transformative. My aim is to create a safe, accepting, non-judgemental and confidential space for you. Here, we can work co-operatively to explore and create meaning from what it is you wish to bring to therapy. Through this dialogue, we can begin to recognise new, emerging possibilities and the potential for genuine change.
Therapy, for me, is something we do together in the present—a partnership—something for which we have a shared responsibility.
I work relationally, with an emphasis on attunement, acceptance and empathy. I am sex-positive and gender-affirming.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have a Diploma in Counselling in Transactional Analysis awarded by Physis Scotland, a COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skills and a Hypnotherapy Practitioners Diploma (HPD).
Personal development is very important to me and is something I prioritise. I have a very wide range of academic qualifications in a disparate range of disciplines (Music, Film, Law, Science, Informatics, Biotechnology, Botany, Horticulture), and regularly undertake CPD.
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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Academic/Student issues
- Creativity issues
- Performance issues
- LBGTQIA+
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
Additional information
15-30 minute introductory session (zoom/phone): free
50 minute initial assessment session (in-person/zoom): £35
Regular 50 minute session: £60
Block of 6 sessions paid in advance: £340 (save £20)
When I work
At present, I work daytimes (9-5) and weekdays only.
