Shirley-Ann Galbraith

About me

Hello and welcome.

Sometimes life presents challenges and the turbulence of these can be overwhelming and may impact negatively on our mental health and emotional well-being. Psychotherapy and counselling offer a safe space to explore your experiences of these difficulties. To feel safe with your therapist is one of the most important factors to consider before beginning therapy, so our first meeting provides a time to reflect and explore your reasons for considering therapy. In my private practice I work with adults experiencing all aspects of mental ill health concerns, relationship and life issues.

I am a qualified integrative psychotherapist and counsellor with over 30 years experience working within mental health services. For many of those years I worked within the Adult Mental Health Sector of the NHS and my special areas of interest are; anxiety disorders, depression, body image issues, relational difficulties and eating disorders. I provide an excellent service in beautiful surroundings.

I have extensive training and experience and have worked with many aspects of human difficulty, both in the NHS and now within my private therapy practice.

I trained as an integrative counsellor and then as a psychotherapist to post graduate level at the Metanoia Institute, London. In therapy the term integrative describes that I use different therapeutic models to work most effectively with the issues or concerns that you have. My particular area of interest is the individuals early attachment experiences and the impact on their relationships, therefore part of my integrative model is attachment informed psychotherapy.   Those early attachments experiences can sometimes influence your interpersonal relationships, and the relationship with your body and eating behaviours.

I also trained with the National Centre For Eating Disorders and work with people experiencing difficulties with disordered eating, body image, body dysmorphia and binge eating disorder.

I regularly attend courses and workshops that support my psychotherapy qualification. Please contact me if you would like more information.

Other areas I work with include:

• relational trauma:
• relationship difficulties:
• bereavement:
• depression:
• anxiety:
• self-esteem and self-worth issues:
• eating disorders:

If you have concerns relating to any of the above, or are experiencing other emotional difficulties in your life, please do not hesitate to make an appointment with me. Please contact me if you have any questions or would like to book an initial appointment.

I offer face to face appointments in my office ( with a Covid 19 risk assessment in place) and online, via zoom, and telephone. appointments.

My office and consulting room are located at Barham Court, Maidstone and has free parking.

You can contact me via telephone or email and I will get back to you within 24hrs.