Shona Moncrieff
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About me
My reasons for training as a counsellor were a combination of my own deep need to understand my own ways of thinking behaving and responding to the world through any existential crises and challenging lived experiences, and a real need to support others who may be feeling the same way.
Travel and exposure to a variety of cultures, religions and ways of living and different approaches to feeling and thinking about life, allowed me the privilege of embracing life with an open mind and open heart. I believe that there are many different pathways of reaching our end goal.
For me, this means making strong trusting connections with people who come to me for support. It is my job to do this by really hearing, seeing and feeling how I can best find what is both meaningful and nourishing for you to heal.
As a pluralistic therapist, I work collaboratively, creatively and intuitively. I encourage clients to 'come as they are, and however it is they feel', and they will be welcomed into a warm, empathic, open-minded, non-judgemental and safe space, where we can truly be our authentic selves.
Much of my work to date has been supporting people from a trauma-informed approach, and are living with adverse childhood experiences and complex emotional needs.
I work with adults, young people and children, and with over 15 years of teaching experience, I am both qualified and sensitive to the challenges that can exist within family dynamics.
Training, qualifications & experience
Since qualifying as a therapist I have continued to develop my skills through personal development and training, ensuring I am up to date with the best standards of practice and current research.
- COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skills @ UHI, Perth College Campus - 2019-2020
- MSc in Pluralistic Counselling & Psychotherapy ' Abertay University, Dundee - 2020-2023
- PGDE in Counselling Children & Young People @ Essential Training Associates - 2022-2023
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
£55.00 per session
Free initial in-person, telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
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