This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
So…….you’ve been thinking that it’s time to make a change; time to sort things out; time to ask for help.
Now it’s time to take that first step.
Seeking help is a brave move and can feel quite daunting. I have established my practice to support you in this and can offer a safe and supportive listening space for you to work with the issues you bring. Based in Edinburgh, I can offer face-to-face, online or telephone counselling sessions.
I have experience of and enjoy working with, a broad range of issues.
My work is based in the person-centred approach and I work primarily with the topics that are ‘bubbling’ for my clients when they enter our therapeutic space. However, I am also strongly influenced by the psychodynamic ideas that I explored extensively during my training.
I look forward to hearing from you and to supporting those first steps and hopefully those beyond.
Training, qualifications & experience
Having graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling, I am a fully qualified practitioner and a registered member of BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy).
I became interested in this work during a 6 year association with Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland as a volunteer counsellor. I have practised in The Health Agency in Wester Hailes and am currently a practitioner with VOCAL (Voice of Carers Across Lothian).
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
From £55.00
Additional information
For an initial session, the charge is £35 for 50 minutes. If we decide to continue working together, the fee would be £55 for 50 minutes, with the expectation of weekly or fortnightly sessions.
