Ryan Dawes
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About me
I aim to provide or offer • an unconditional acceptance that is safe, warm and respectful of how you are and what you are • a climate conducive to being with your feelings, thoughts or what is important to you through following your lead and being present with you and trying understand from your point of view.
Counselling/psychotherapy can be • a confidential space that can offer safety when things are difficult or impossible to bear • a space to help explore new or unknown aspects of yourself • a transformative experience both personally and for your circumstances.
I have worked, for over 10 years, with young people and adults suffering with anxiety, depression, trauma / complex trauma, dissociation, prolonged and repeated abuse within a relationship(s) / routine abuse, ritual abuse, self-harm, suicidal impulse / thoughts about suicide, relationship difficulties and people searching for greater confidence, self-esteem and deeper meaning in their lives.
If you’re looking for someone happy to
- to accompany you and ‘be there’
- work with you on what is important, problematic or difficult
and - the experience of being listened to at depth and understood
- psychological or spiritual support facilitative of finding your own answers and understandings
- a respectful and safe place to be
I would be happy for you to contact me.
Depending on how you might like to work I offer a way of working either ‘non-directively’ or more intentionally structured (where if you wish you can set out more concretely what is problematic and what you might like to work on).
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I began training in counselling and psychotherapy in 2010 at Jordanhill and with Strathclyde University. Before this I was a philosophy research student (in St Andrews).
Also in 2014 I spent five months in 2014 living and meditating in different Buddhist temples/monasteries in Korea, Myanmar and Thailand. A Buddhist/meditative way of life is personally important to me (and I’ve regularly visited and had short stays at Thai Buddhist monasteries in England).
In different ways I’ve been absorbed with the questions of human happiness, meaning and purpose, meaningful relationships and their role in psychological support, growth and development.
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Training, qualifications & experience
Initial training:
- Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Jordanhill/University of Strathclyde)
- Postgraduate Certificate in Counselling Skills (Jordanhill/University of Strathclyde)
Further learning/study/training in:
- Client Centered personality theory in depth (2012 & 2014-15)
- the ‘Focusing’ method (2014) and Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy (2015-16)
- ‘task analyses’ of Client Centered Therapy and Process-Experiential/Emotion-Focused Therapy (2015-16)
- Child Centered Play Therapy and working with young people (2015-16)
- Therapy for trauma and complex trauma; complex trauma arising out of prolonged and repeated abuse; the ‘adult child’ condition; ritual abuse (2018-19)
Memberships:
- Accredited Member of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS)
- Practitioner Member of Person-Centred Therapy Scotland
- Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)
Member organisations
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Accredited register membership
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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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Complex trauma arising out of prolonged and repeated abuse within relationships
- Ritual abuse
- 'Adult child' condition
Therapies offered
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Fees
£45.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
- Standard fee: £45 per meeting
- Reduced fee: £35 per meeting if on a low income, unemployed or a student
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I am also available to meet in Helensburgh on Sundays at Beech Tree Clinic, 107 East Princes Street, Helensburgh
Further information
Here is a link to an optional questionnaire I offer asking about what you might like to explore in therapy - if this feels supportive for you you are welcome to complete any parts of this you feel comfortable completing:
https://clientcenteredtherapy.net/questionnaire
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I am also available to meet in Helensburgh on Sundays at Beech Tree Clinic, 107 East Princes Street, Helensburgh
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I believe in the client centered approach as, it seems to me, that sustained or meaningful freedom from is in a form of personal empowerment rooted in experience.
Certain therapeutic techniques or ‘interventions’ (such as those I’ve learned and practiced from Process-Experiential/Emotion-Focused Therapy and Focusing-Oriented Therapy) can offer insight and pathways into the therapeutic process but also need, it seems to me, to be or become personally relevant or meaningful.
