Ryan Dawes

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Glasgow, City of Glasgow, G1 3TA
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About me

For over 10 years I've had the honour of being with and in the presence of people, individually, finding their way and, thereby, transforming themselves and their circumstances (and in the process I have changed also).

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
  • a respectful and safe place to be

please consider contacting me.

Maybe there’s a difficult relationship or relationships in your life, a problem at home or another a significant relationship or at work or something else puzzlingly and persistently not feeling quite right.

Or perhaps there is something you wish or need, now, to look at or spend time with that has been there for some time or a long time.

Or perhaps life has changed in significant ways recently and you would like or need some space for this.

I am gentle, warm, friendly and work 'non-directively' and supportively.

About me

I began training in counselling and psychotherapy in 2010. Before this I was a research student in philosophy. I’ve also been a teacher of English abroad (in Korea) and 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 (or obsessed) with the question of the ‘human condition’ of why we suffer, is this necessary and is there a way out most of my adult life (and some of my younger life). It is my hope I have learned something which will be of help to you.

Thank-you for visiting my page.

Wishing you well.

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
  • Practitioner Member of The Person Centred Association (TPCA)
  • Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

Member organisations

BACP
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Accredited register membership

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Accredited Register Scheme

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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

  • Low income
  • Students
  • Unemployed

Additional information

  • Standard fee: £45 per meeting (first meeting - £35 (3/4 price))
  • Reduced fee: £35 per meeting if on a low income, unemployed or a student

When I work

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Further information

I have come to believe passionately in the client centered approach as it seems to me evident that the essence of effective therapy – or sustained or lasting freedom from personal distress – lies in personal empowerment in some form rooted in experience.

(While certain therapeutic techniques or ‘interventions’ (such as those I’ve learned and practiced from Process-Experiential/Emotion-Focused Therapy and Focusing-Oriented Therapy) offer insight into the therapeutic process they constitute, it seems to me, a limited substitute for this when practiced exclusively, nakedly or not ‘non-directively’.

4th floor (on left-hand side as exit lift/stairs), 111 Union Street, Glasgow, City of Glasgow, G1 3TA

Type of session

In person
Online

Types of client

Young people
Adults
Older Adults
Employee Assistance Programme

Key details

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