Live Your Best Life
Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years of experience (working in Scottish NHS as clinician and supervisor) using evidence based approaches: Attachment informed EMDR,
Internal Family Systems, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy,
Compassion Focused Therapy and Mindfulness
My Approach
ACT
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is an evidence based behavioural therapy. The core aim of Act is to maximise human potential for a rich and meaningful life, while effectively handling inevitable life's pain. It does it by: teaching you skills how to handle painful thoughts/ emotions and helping you to clarify what is truly important and meaningful to you.
ACT is a modern scientific approach, firmly based on cutting edge research into human behavioural psychology.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful therapy designed to help people recover from traumatic events in their lives. It is a comprehensive treatment that involves bilateral stimulation (most often side to side eye movement) combined with talk therapy in specific and structured way. Attachment informed EMDR can help with earlier relational wounds and support more compassionate self relating. This approach can be beautifully supported by IFS way of understanidng human multiplicity and it's deeply compasssionate stance.
IFS
IFS is a transformative tool that conceives of every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts led by a core Self. As described by IFS Istitute IFS trusts that the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us. Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged. It knows how to heal. IFS is frequently used as an evidence-based psychotherapy, helping people heal by accessing and healing their protective and wounded inner parts. IFS creates inner and outer connectedness by helping people first access their Self and, from that core, come to understand and heal their parts.
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Important: At the moment I am working solely online.
Being alive can be both thrilling and hard. Feeling stuck makes it difficult to see different perspective - sometimes we all need the other person to help us see that change is possible. Often not easy but possible. It requires time, kindness and patience. It requires developing awareness, learning new skills and trying out new behaviours. We all need to be heard and helped to find words to describe who and what is important to us and what hurts.
My Services
I offer initial consultation to discuss your needs and my approach, I hope to help you clarify what really matters to you and help you learn how to approach your difficulties so that you can move closer to your values. Following first meeting I can offer a tailored support. I work with adults, young people and couples. I also offer supervision if you are a practitioner looking for support in putting in practice new skills. I use evidence based approaches like Attachment informed EMDR, IFS, ACT, CFT and Mindfulness.
