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I offer week day appointments. We would usually discuss appointments and availability together at first phone call.

I am a qualified psychodynamic counsellor, PGDip, BA (Hons), and I hold membership in professional organisations Íø±¬ÃÅ and CPUK.

Psychodynamic counselling can help with personal issues and (root) causes which may lie beneath the surface of present difficulties.  Difficulties such as: low mood, life crises, life changes, loss, relationship difficulties,  difficulties at work current (or recurring), or frustrations a person may feel within their life now, day to day which they can't seem to get to the other side of and which are holding them back from enjoying life.  

Within a confidential space, I can enable individuals to explore and cope better with the difficulties that they are facing. As  sessions progress it is likely that individuals will be more able to give time and meaning to personal and life experiences, become less 'stuck' or distressed, and this can help individuals live a more fulfilling enjoyable life which they deserve. 

Counselling sessions are weekly and are based in Edinburgh. 

Psychodynamic counselling will make use of your unique and personal life history and your relational experiences throughout life.  Counselling can work with unconscious processes, and will pay importance to what might be just out of your awareness.    

I also pay attention to how the therapeutic relationship develops between us as the sessions unfold.   The aim of this is to bring you greater insight and awareness to deeper possible root causes of  your experiences of distress.  These can often lie in relational experiences and be unknown to a person, or they can be known but unable to be spoken about until the time is felt right.

During  sessions it is hoped that you will develop more psychological capacity and can learn better strategies to cope.  Individuals might also develop an ability to think about themselves in relation to others and in the context of their whole life.   

On our first meeting I will obtain an account of your personal history, we will discuss our contract for working and confidentiality.  Your first session will last approx one hour.

All our conversations are bound by confidentiality.