I am an Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist MBACP (Accred). of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and I work by their code of ethics and professional standards of practice. I am fully insured with counselling liability insurance and I attend regular monthly supervision with a qualified counselling supervisor to ensure my work is ethical, safe and professional.
I am a qualified Online and Telephone Counsellor. I am also qualified in counselling Children & Young People as well as Adults.
Training & Qualifications
- Certificate in Counselling Supervision, Tom Alan Centre, Glasgow. *
- Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling, Counselling Tutor
- Certificate in Counselling Children and Young People, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.*
- Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling (Person-Centred) University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.*
- Higher National Certificate in Counselling (Integrative) Anniesland College, Glasgow.
- Professional Development Award in Addiction Counselling, Anniesland College, Glasgow.
- Counselling Skills, Motherwell College, Motherwell.
- Introduction to Counselling, Motherwell College, Motherwell.
*The Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling is accredited by The British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
*The Certificate in Counselling Children & Young People is validated by Counselling and Psychotherapy in Scotland (COSCA).
*The Certificate in Counselling Supervision is validated by Counselling and Psychotherapy in Scotland (COSCA).
As part of my ongoing continued professional development (CPD) I have completed the following:
- Scotland’s Mental Health First Aid (SMHFA) course
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASSIST)
- Psychosocial Interventions for Anxiety Management
- Psychosocial Interventions for Anger Management
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Approach (CBT)
- Understanding Perinatal Depression
- Safeguarding Training
- Channel General Awareness module
- Bowlby’s Attachment Theory and Lifelong Relationships
- Working with the Impact of Severe Trauma
- Counselling Couples and Families: A Person-Centred Approach
- SCOTACS Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Toolkit
- How to do Counselling Online: A Coronavirus Primer
- How to Stop Nightmares
- Working with bereavement and complex grief
- Psychosomatics, MUS, PPS (Persistent Physical Symptoms)
- Safeguarding and managing risk through digital media
- Supervising via digital media through times of crisis
- Working with Bereavement and Complex Grief
- How to stop Nightmares & Dream Completion Technique
- Treating Trauma – essentials for working with inherent relational complications
- Trauma Based Anxiety – strategies to help anxious clients
- Complex Trauma – working with structural dissociation
- Polyvagal Theory in Practice – essential strategies
- Resilience – powerful practices for bouncing back from trauma and adversity
- Using a multi-modality trauma approach – 3 essential strategies
- A short guide to what every psychological therapist should know about working with psychiatric drugs
- The psychological and physiological repercussions of complex trauma – essential information
- The role of family therapy in Borderline Personality Disorder
- Trauma and expressive arts therapy – going beyond words
- Internal Family Systems Therapy – essentials in understanding trauma related parts work
- Compassion in Therapy Summit
- Decoding psychiatry & psychopharmacology – essentials for counsellors & psychotherapists
- A Matter of Death and Life with Irvin D Yalom
- Forgiving Life, Forgiving Death, and Beginning Again
- Food and Mood – nutrition essentials for mental health
- The role of family therapy in borderline personality disorder
- Healing early attachment wounds – powerful somatic strategies for lasting change
- Internal Family Systems Therapy – essentials in understanding trauma related parts work
- A short guide to what every psychological therapist should know about working with psychiatric drugs
- Compassion in Therapy Summit
Experience
I have been working with clients for 9 years offering counselling and therapeutic support. Over this time I have gained experience in a wide range of settings including a rural charity community project for vulnerable adults, a young person’s project, a GP practice, a specialist addiction service, a charity supporting women experiencing domestic abuse, an employee assistance programme (EAP) and within a school counselling service counselling primary aged children.
I currently work part time as an in-house GP Practice Therapeutic Counsellor counselling adults and young people and within my own private practice based in Biggar, Lanarkshire offering face to face counselling. I work with clients based all over the UK via online and telephone counselling.
I have experience working with a wide range of issues and emotional difficulties. I am particularly experienced in supporting clients who have experienced difficult childhoods or upsetting events, those experiencing loss and grief, relationship difficulties and those who feel unfulfilled or unsatisfied with themselves or their lives.
I have an awareness and respect of cultural diversity and I welcome clients from the LGBTQIA communities.
