About me:

Professional details:

•  ​Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy from Stirling University
•  BACP registered  (www.bacpregister.org.uk/check_register)
• ​ Accredited Member with The Foundation for Infant Loss
  
•  COSCA Counselling skills
• ​ Regular attendance of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to enhance  my practice
•  Monthly Supervision to ensure safe and high standard of practice
•  Fully insured

Experience:
​I am a confident and competent therapist who has worked for over thirty years with children, young people and adults in a supportive role.  
It seemed a natural progressive step for me to move towards person-centred therapy where I could enhance and deepen the key attitudes and values of being empathic, accepting and genuine with others.  These are not ways of being that I have learned from a textbook, but rather developed from my own self-awareness which is core to being an effective counsellor.
​I have experience of short and long term therapeutic work with many different issues for both men and women from 18 years to 80 years.
​This includes:

• Abortion
• Addictions
• Ageing
• Anxiety & Stress
• Assault
• Childhood Abuse
• Depression & low mood
• Domestic Abuse
• Gender role Conflict
• Grief and Loss  (inc. pets)
• Health Concerns
• Infertility
• Low self-esteem
• Parenting
• Phobias
• Rape
• Redundancy
• Relationship issues
• Religious conflict
• Self harm
• Sexual abuse
• Suicidal thoughts
• Trauma