Roddy Macdonald

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I am a warm, caring, understanding and empathic person who is hugely passionate about psychotherapy and about helping others come into a place of freedom.

I totally believe in the transforming power of the therapeutic relationship. I have seen it transform my own life and the lives of countless others that I have counselled. I am now in the privileged position of using this passion to help enable and empower others to turn their own lives around as well.

I grew up in a fairly dysfunctional home, I can remember as a young child having feelings of depression, fear, anxiety and stress. These stresses had an impact on my physical and mental health and the feelings and fears never really left me and they would rear their unhelpful ugly head at various moments and inopportune times throughout my adult life.

​This then led to severe depression, marriage break up, and all sorts of other emotional and physical problems in my life.

When I embarked on my counselling career it had such a massive impact on my own life that it quite literally turned my life around.

​Suddenly, I was seeing the reasons for all my behaviours and understanding my thoughts and my feelings. It was totally overwhelming, but it was also absolutely transformational for me.

​I was hooked!

I was so impacted by the things that I was learning and the counselling I myself received, that I went on to become a qualified Psychotherapist.

I have become so passionate in the study and process of psychotherapy that I am always undertaking Training courses and CPD (Continuous Professional Development) courses to further improve and build on my training so that I can be the very best counsellor and the very best me that I can be and this, in turn, helps with whatever a client may bring to the counselling room.

I believe in the power of change, I believe that one of the powerful things that can help bring about that change is connection! Brené Brown states that "Rarely can a response make something better, what makes something better, is connection". This is an are that I excel at, I connect very deeply with people and this facilitates trust and this, in turn, allows for deeper work to take place very quickly.

I use an Integrative approach to counselling including Creative Therapy, TA, (Transactional Analysis) REBT (Reactive Emotive Behavioural Therapy) and I can offer Christian Counselling.

So go ahead and contact me and let's see if we can work together. I offer a free 30-minute telephone or video initial consultation. This allows us both to see if we would be a good fit and also gives you the opportunity to ask any questions you may have.