Elizabeth Riddell Counselling & Supervision
elizabethriddellcounselling@gmail.com

About Me
My qualifications
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Post-Graduate Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (2016)
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Diploma in Counselling Supervision, Physis Scotland, Edinburgh (2022)
My experience and interests
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I identify as queer and I am passionate about working affirmatively with gender, sexual and relational diversities. For five years I managed a counselling service for LGBT Health and Wellbeing in Glasgow, and now work with them as a group supervisor for volunteer counsellors in Edinburgh. I am a trustee on the board of directors for Kaleidoscope Counselling.
I am also currently training to be a volunteer pregnancy and birth companion/doula with Amma.
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My background includes counselling within a university research clinic, a charity for people affected by cancer, and with workers of a women's centre for minoritised ethnic women.
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I actively work - from and towards - an intersectional, anti-oppressive practice that recognises the greater systems and contexts we come from, and are working within.
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I am trained to work with the uniqueness of each individual in whatever they are experiencing.
However, the stuff I often work with includes:
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anxiety
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depression
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shame
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relationships - all types
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co-dependency
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sex & sexuality
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gender
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isolation & unbelonging
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loss & grieving - all forms of heartbreak
- life transitions
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self-worth/confidence/esteem
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trauma
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transcultural experiences
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migration
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minority struggles
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family / fertility / pregnancy / abortion / miscarriage / birth / parenting (particularly in queer contexts)
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neurodivergence, ASD/autism, AD(H)D, high sensitivity
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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.
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