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About Me

My qualifications

  • Post-Graduate Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (2016)

  • Diploma in Counselling Supervision, Physis Scotland, Edinburgh (2022)

My experience and interests
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I have over a decade of clinical expereince and a love for this work.
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I am queer and I am passionate about working affirmatively with gender, sexual and relational diversities. For five years I managed a counselling and support service for LGBT Health and Wellbeing in Glasgow, and for a futher three years I held a supervision group for counsellors in the Edinburgh service.

 

I am a trained birth attendant/doula (training with Amma 2023 and Red Tent Doulas 2024) and I volunteer as a pregnancy, birth & postpartum companion with Amma.

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My background includes counselling within a university research clinic and a charity for people affected by cancer in Glasgow, and with workers of a women's centre for minoritised ethnic women in London.

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I actively work - from and towards - an intersectional, anti-oppressive practice that recognises the greater systems, contexts and cultures we come from, and are working within. 

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I see that therapy can be a valuable piece of the puzzle in our individual work, and one that can be a generosity to the world in the ripple affect to the relationships & communities we are part of.

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I am trained to work with the whole person and the uniqueness of each individual in whatever they are experiencing.

However, the stuff I often work with and/or have a particular interetest in, includes:

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  • anxiety

  • depression

  • shame

  • relationships - all types 

  • sex & sexuality

  • gender

  • isolation & unbelonging

  • loss & grieving - all forms of heartbreak

  • life transitions 
  • aging

  • self-worth/confidence/esteem

  • trauma

  • fertility / conception / pregnancy / abortion / miscarriage / birth / postpartum

  • adoption / fostering / care

  • parenting / mothering / donor / family

  • menopause

  • transcultural experiences 

  • migration

  • asylum system

  • minority struggles

  • neurodivergence, ASD/autism, AD(H)D, high sensitivity ​

  • spirituality

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Professional Membership

 

I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), committed to the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions: www.bacp.co.uk/ethical_framework.  You can check my membership on the professional register here: www.bacpregister.org.uk

 

I very much hope that you wouldn’t have cause to complain about my practice such that we couldn’t find a resolution together. If you do however, you can contact the BACP here: www.bacp.co.uk/prof_conduct/

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I am in ongoing and regular clinical supervision for my work. I am also part of a peer supervision group.

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