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More about Tim Allyn

I am a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and have 7 years of experience as a talk therapist. I have a Masters of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy and Counselling and work with individuals, couples and premarital couples. Having one counsellor that works both individually and relationally can help save time and resources in therapy as individual issues often coexist with relationship strains.
As a young adult, I was greatly helped by a caring therapist as I was experiencing depression after a relationship breakup. Healing from that experience with the help of a therapist encouraged me to enter the profession of counselling. Today, I am grateful to have the opportunity to walk with others through tough times in life. Therapy is an investment in you or your relationship and as with all investments, there is sacrifice. Opening up can be difficult work, especially in the beginning, as our clients' situations are often complex, confusing and painful. We will listen closely and work non-judgementally with any concern to formulate an effective plan for therapy. The rewards of counselling are great and you are worth the investment. I operate under the name Dundee Counselling and provide counselling sessions from Office 1/1 First Floor, 4 Panmure Street, Dundee, DD1 2BW, (located across the street from McManus Gallery. Cost is £40 per 50 min session for individuals or £50 for couples.

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More about Walter Baxter

I assume that you are looking for a counsellor because something has gone wrong in your life and you are searching for a way to put it right. There are many different reasons people come up against seemingly unsolvable problems in their lives. But at the end of the day what really matters is finding an effective way to overcome the problem so that you can continue to live the life you choose. When our usual ways of sorting our problems out don’t work anymore it can be helpful to speak with someone who is not involved in your day-to-day life. I have been trained to provide you with a safe and confidential space to explore what is bothering you. By this, I mean both a physical space and an emotional space. I will not judge you but I will give you my honest reflections on what you say to me. I will work hard to understand what you are telling me and to empathise with the emotions you are feeling. The combination of adding a completely new person’s ideas to your problem-solving efforts in the unique circumstances that a counselling space offers, allows new answers to come to light. I believe that the answers to problems in living are found by you creatively reshuffling your personal strengths, your life experiences, and what we have learned “between us together” and coming up with a new perspective.
Practice description
The therapy that I offer is based on the belief that people who come for therapy are experts on their own lives (even if they don’t feel they are), who have lots of potentially good ideas about how to deal with their problems. One of my main roles is to help the person to make the best use of their experience and understanding.
This means that my approach to therapy (called a ‘pluralistic approach’) is to try to be as flexible as possible in responding to your needs. What I find is that different people are helped in different ways. For instance, what some people find most helpful in their therapy is to express their feelings – sadness, anger, fearfulness. Other people find it more helpful to take a rational approach to their problems and use the therapy to ‘think things through’. People can shift, over the course of therapy, from finding one kind of activity helpful to then preferring to work in a different way with their therapist.
I try to be flexible around the practical arrangements for therapy. Most people attend for a one-hour session at the same time each week. This can vary depending on your personal circumstances.
Flexibility also applies to the number of therapy sessions that you receive. Some people come for one or two sessions and find that this is enough to put them ‘on the right track’. Other people attend therapy for many months. What is important is to do what is best for you personally. One of the options is what I call intermittent therapy – if you have some sessions and then want to stop, you can always come back at any time in the future and pick up where you left off.

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More about Nick Berman

Enabling you to lead a more satisfying life.
Counselling provides a safe space to achieve change and discover solutions to problems we meet in life.
A skilled counsellor enables the client to explore and work through life’s challenges.
Nick is a BACP accredited counsellor with 20 years post-qualifying experience, has a postgraduate MSc. in Counselling Studies and abides by the codes of conduct and ethics of BACP.
Nick has worked in health and social care for 35 years and is aware of the challenges in people’s demanding personal and professional lives.
He works from a Person-Centred perspective, which emphasises our natural capability to develop positively if the right conditions are provided. People come to counselling because of problems, challenges or difficulties, like dealing with loss or bereavement, or coping with life changes.
We may wish to explore and challenge conditions of worth others have applied to us in life.
We can learn through counselling to increase our appreciation of self and others, and lead more fulfilling, happier lives.
Nick works with a range of problems and issues, including anxiety, depression, trauma, loss, bereavement, stress and change. He works with individuals, couples and family groups and teaches Mindfulness.

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More about Anna Cochrane

As a counsellor I offer a safe, supportive, creative and confidential environment for people to explore and make sense of their difficult life experiences; building on strengths I believe people can develop greater personal understanding to achieve a fulfilled, satisfied and rewarding future.
I have wide experience in working with many issues including bereavement and loss; anxiety; low self-esteem; depression; bullying; sexual abuse and trauma and have completed professional development training in many of these areas. I have a particular interest in working with children and young people and am passionate about empowering individuals to develop creative and innovative ways to gain insight, develop understanding and fulfilling their potential.
I am an integrative counsellor drawing particularly from a person-centred approach, which means I am committed to working flexibly and collaboratively with you enabling you to jointly create therapy to suit your individual needs.

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More about Rowan Consultancy

Established in 1997, Rowan is one of Scotland's most successful personal and organisational development specialists. We are a team of counsellors, working from various premises throughout Scotland, offering a variety of counselling approaches. Research shows that what makes the most difference is your relationship with your counsellor, rather than the type of counselling offered.
If you’re thinking about trying counselling, do give us a ring or drop us an email. We’re happy to talk on the phone to let you know more about what to expect.
We always say come for your first appointment, see whether you feel comfortable with your counsellor and that working together will be helpful, and then book more appointments if you wish, or you may choose to try another counsellor instead.
It’s a big step, choosing to start counselling, we wish you well on your journey!
Rowan Consultancy also provides schools counselling, college counselling and employee counselling services to organisations throughout Scotland. Our other services are supervision, training, coaching and workplace mediation.
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More about Ashleigh Cormack

I'm experienced in working with a variety of problems including: depression and anxiety, stress, anger, bullying, abuse and trauma, eating disorders, bereavement, relationship difficulties, low confidence and self-esteem.
I will provide a safe, confidential and non-judgmental space to explore whatever is causing difficulty and so that you can find a way forward that makes sense to you. By offering support and understanding I can help you to find new ways of approaching problems and to locate and utilise strengths and resources.
I offer the following therapeutic approaches: Person-Centred, Psychodynamic, CBT and Mindfulness. I also work creatively using art based therapy techniques to help clients to explore issues that may be below the surface of their awareness.
Qualifications include: M.Sc.R Counselling, PG Dip Pluralistic Counselling, BPS approved Trauma cert, MBACP(Accred.), COSCA Supervision Cert, ACTO approved Online Therapy cert adults and young people, COSCA Cert Counselling Bereaved adults and Children and Young People.

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More about Caroline Georgiou

I have gone to extraordinary lengths and depths to know myself and it was not until I returned to my body as home, that profound transformation began. I believe that therapy must support somatic awareness and exploration because without body, we are spirit without a home and this is a place of trauma, dissociation and disconnection. To live only in our heads is to retreat into the attic, never venturing downstairs and relying solely on one source of perception. We don't have to stay so restricted, we can relearn to trust the smart force of our nature and reclaim ourselves again.
My personal practice supports my ongoing journeying and so I make regular appointments with my unconscious through authentic movement and sacred dance practices, rituals, personal counselling, drawing, journalling, poetry, anything that animates my soul. I also offer somatic movement group workshops in the community which helps to keep my practice fresh as everyone I meet is a teacher of infinite wisdom.

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More about Joyce Guild

I am an integrative counsellor and clinical supervisor. My training is in Personal Construct Psychology and the Integrative models of counselling, specialising in Psychodynamic. I Qualified in 2007 from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and 2011 as a Clinical Supervisor. I worked for 15 years in Sexual Health and Relationships 16-25 and 5 years in Occupational Health NHS. I am now self-employed.

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More about Carole Haigh

I have been in practice for over 30 years and offer a flexible approach to suit you and the reasons you feel you need to come to counselling. At present I offer sessions by telephone and Zoom.
I regularly attend continuing professional development for both my counselling and my supervision practices.

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More about Moira Hood

Holding a person-centred framework as my core belief I offer a creative space for clients and supervisees to explore issues that they bring to sessions.
I am an experienced Integrative Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor and have a particular interest in working with Children and Young People. I believe that children and young people have the ability to work through difficult life experiences when provided with safe and supportive emotional therapeutic space. Children and young people can move past their problems to build the foundations to a flourishing life.
I also a qualified Supervisor and offer clinical supervision to counsellors. I am particularly interested in the supervision of children/young peoples counselling.
I offer 1-1 counselling and supervision.

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More about Sarah Jauncey

COUNSELLING FOR INDIVIDUALS & COUPLES
HOW COUNSELLING WORKS Counselling is about being listened to. It offers you the chance to talk about issues and problems, difficult feelings, hopes and fears - in complete confidence and without being judged. I believe we are the experts on our own lives. We hold the solutions to our problems, but we often need someone outside our circle of friends and family to help us see them.
Talking to a trained counsellor helps you to understand yourself better - how you behave and relate to other people - so that you have more choice in the way you lead your life.
Counselling can also help you come to terms with the past and accept the things you can’t change. It can give you courage and confidence to do some things differently and break out of patterns where you get stuck. You then have a better chance of fulfilling your dreams and making the most of your potential.
COUPLE COUNSELLING This is to help you communicate better as a couple. As the counsellor I’m there to make sure you’re both properly heard. I’m on both your sides and I have no vested interest in a particular outcome.
NEXT STEPS If you feel counselling might be helpful to you then please give me a ring to book an initial consultation. We’ll talk about your concerns and whether or not counselling is the right thing for you.
If you decide to go ahead, we may agree on a set number of sessions, or choose to keep it open-ended. Counselling sessions last for 50 minutes for individuals and 60 minutes for couples. We usually meet once a week or fortnightly.
Each session costs £50 for individuals and £60 for couples. If you would like to book an initial consultation please contact me on 07870 647280 or email me [email protected]
ABOUT ME
My overall approach to counselling is holistic - I believe mind, body and spirit are all connected.
I am a fully qualified counsellor with many years experience – I work in private practice and have also worked within the NHS. As an Integrative Counsellor I draw on different models to suit each individual. I work within a Psychodynamic and Humanistic framework and also use elements of Art Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
I am an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and I abide by their ethical standards and code of practice. I am also a COSCA accredited trainer in counselling skills.
QUALIFICATIONS
Relationship Scotland Certificate in Couple Counselling (COSCA Accred.) 2014
Person-Centred Couples Training Certificate 2011
Diploma in Integrative Counselling, CiiC, MBACP (Accred.) 2004
COSCA Certificate of Trainer Accreditation in Counselling Skills 2007
Member of COSCA and a Registrant on the COSCA register
COMPLAINTS can be addressed through the COSCA Complaints
Procedure via their website at www.cosca.org.uk

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More about Jan Killan

I work in a way that allows the client the time and space to explore whatever they may bring to the counselling session. My work is still limited at the moment in that I am not seeing clients face to face, however last year I took the opportunity for more study and obtained a Certificate in Telephone and On-line Counselling. This has enabled me to be more confident working in these mediums and I feel it also shows how seriously I take my work with my clients, respecting and valuing them in the process.

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More about Grace McLean

Life is a journey we are all on together, yet everyone’s path is unique. At the difficult points in our life, when our sense of self and direction are not clear we can find ourselves looking backwards, as well as forwards, and questioning where we are. Working within a safe, confidential and containing space Transpersonal Psychotherapy can help find supportive transforming solutions.
Issues I have worked with include:
Problems related to bereavement and loss, for workers with people with cancer and other terminal illnesses, or for themselves, or their partners, or other members of their families.Supporting individuals working through relationship breakdown, trying to communicate and hear each other as they stay together, or sometimes to keep speaking and listening as they negotiate separation. Difficulties in the workplace due to illness, stress, bullying, bad management, suspension, investigation, and disciplinary hearings. Clients dealing with depression, low self esteem and trauma, relating to earlier experiences in their adulthood, their childhood, home, school, or adolescent years.

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More about Palma Mulé

I describe my therapeutic approach as Relational and Integrative, incorporating creative and holistic aspects into my practice as a way to develop self-awareness and support positive change.
My specific areas of expertise are around stress, anxiety, depression, bereavement and loss, caring for somebody affected by long term illness, addiction(s), trauma and abuse.
I offer counselling (short/long term) and clinical supervision.

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More about Salma Siddique

Individual growth and development as being both fragmented and interlinked. By applying the concept of bricolage, a term used in anthropology meaning taking things which are available to create something new within a cultural context. The ways in which the lives of human minds—whether conscious or not—are inseparable from day-to-day sociale xistence and the social tensions that form it. Ethnographic attention to encounters, events and experiences that lie at the margins of attention and awareness can, then, stimulate between the psychic and the social, offer grounded insights into the layered processes. We aim to co-create a safe space for individuals to explore this fragmentation. I am work with teaching, training, supervision and therapy is available in person, online or through a blended approach.

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More about Viv Smith

I offer an integrative therapeutic approach giving me flexibility when helping you overcome difficulties.
I work in a variety of ways depending on your needs and believe that one approach will not suit everyone.
Fees: £50 per session.
Working Days: Monday-Friday, daytime.
For more information or to make an appointment, please contact me.

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More about Carolyn Strobos

I enjoy counselling because of the relationship it creates between me and my client. I offer Integrative counselling, psychotherapy and supervision in the Newport-on-Tay area. With over twenty years’ experience, I work with people in a confidential, safe space so that they feel heard, understood, supported, and move towards self understanding and acceptance.
I graduated from the Minster Centre with a Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy (1999) and am UKCP registered and accredited (2002). I work for Rowan Consultancy and in private practice combining psychodynamic and humanistic styles of counselling. Counselling within various settings (Dundee City Council Social Work Department, Occupational Health Services, a tertiary day care centre in the NHS and a variety of Employee Assistance Programmes) has given me experience of working with many issues, amongst which include: personal and work stress, bullying, anxiety and depression, adult survivors of sexual abuse, mental illnesses, and personal development. I am willing to work with almost any issue. I also have a special interest in loss in all its guises from my voluntary work with CRUSE 2001-2012.
I offer private supervision to other counsellors. I have supervised students on the Abertay Diploma course, as well as other courses, some of whom have continued to work with me privately.
I always feel privileged in my position, in this unique experience of helping clients to find their own way through life, toward a way that I hope is improved by our meeting.