About me
- 29 Years Experience: NHS, Counselling Centres and Private Practice
- Face to face and online appointments
- Warm, down to earth, professional, effective.
Having worked in the public and private sector, I have extensive therapeutic experience in many areas. These include anxiety, depression; feeling sad or hopeless; panic; abuse, bereavement, self harm, low confidence; work related stress; trauma; loss, family issues and difficulties in relationships. I specialise in anxiety and depression.
Confidentiality and anonymity will be upheld to the highest standards. As a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, you can be assured of safe and ethical counselling.
I am down to earth, warm and welcoming. Clients describe their counselling experience as professional, effective and life-changing.
Face to face counselling sessions are available at my Therapy Rooms with a safe therapeutic and physical environment.
Online Counselling
Many clients choose online counselling for convenience. You can choose a time that suits you and talk to me in confidence from the comfort of your own home. I work with clients online across the country and internationally.
Your First Session
I will email you all details in advance of your first session with my address, directions and a contact form.
It is important that you feel safe and comfortable with your Counsellor. So our first session will give you the opportunity to discuss the issues you would like help with, in full confidence.
Towards the end of our hour together, we discuss a way forward that is right for you. At this stage, you can arrange for further sessions if you would like to but there is no obligation to do so.
Training, qualifications & experience
Experience
I have worked for 29 years helping people through counselling. This includes NHS counselling services, which covered a broad range of issues. At Lifelink in Glasgow, clients ranged from ages 12 to 90, and came from both GP and self referrals. Clients could have mild depression, life limiting anxiety, trauma, abuse or be actively suicidal.
I have also worked at Kerith Counselling and Agape in East Kilbride.
I run a successful Private Practice and also offer counselling on a voluntary basis for a children's charity.
My degree is in Psychology and I hold several postgraduate qualifications. These include Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling. As well as a PG Diplomas in Couples Counselling and working with young people.
Some of my other Training & Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Psychology: University of Sussex
- Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling: Edinburgh
- Certificate in Relationship Counselling: Edinburgh
- Complicated Bereavement Counselling: Falkirk
- Counselling Victims of Domestic Abuse: Edinburgh
- Certificate in Mindfulness: Aberdeen
- Overcoming Loneliness and Isolation: London
- Counselling Young People: University of Strathclyde
- Online and Telephone Counselling (BACP Accredited)
- Coronavirus: Our Responses and Responsibilities (COSCA Accredited)
- Registered with Information Commissioner’s Office
- Disclosure Scotland / PVG
- Member organisations
Accredited register membership
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
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Additional information
I also provide counselling part time to a cancer charity, on a voluntary basis. My private works finances these professional costs.
Sessions
Each session lasts one hour and the session fee is £65
Initial Couples Counselling involves a 90 minute session with a fee of £100
You will normally be offered an initial consultation within a
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I allow plenty of time to prepare for our session and to reflect on our work afterwards. There is a significant gap between clients for this reason - and to protect each clients identity.
