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Gram | Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
Counselling Ayr
Welcome, I’m a Higher Accredited psychotherapeutic counsellor, offering talk-therapy (or 'psychotherapy') in Ayr, South Ayrshire and remotely.
I am interested in helping people who have long felt difficulty in getting by, or along with others, even when the reasons for this feel confusing or unclear.
Counselling is a conversation held in a steady, regular setting, away from everyday expectations and assumptions. Daily life may appear hurried or fixated on certain roles, but therapy shows us an alternative: a chance to be sincerely inquisitive about what is happening. Therapy is here for when your authentic experience is too important to ignore. Whatever you struggle with personally, we can meet with the intention to grasp what is really going on.
My specialism looks at what happens between people, and the ways things outside of awareness can influences this. This is sometimes called the 'relational' approach. I would especially welcome working with you wherever your experience has not met with recognition, as can happen in contexts like expressing gender, living with disability, being neurodivergent or surviving abuse.
For an initial appointment to talk about what brings you to therapy, please send me a message. It’s enough just to be curious at first. To help you discover how psychotherapeutic counselling may help you, I offer the first exploratory session at the lowest price.
Online therapy
Where it is not possible to attend in person, I can offer telephone and video calls instead.Qualifications and registrations
I am a Professional Accredited member of NCPS, as a counsellor/psychotherapist, and a Higher Accredited Member of UKAHPP, as a psychotherapeutic counsellor.
Qualifications and Certificates
- Integrative Counselling (BA hons) via University of Worcester
- Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling (80 hours) via Counselling Tutor
- Enhanced Disclosure Barring Certificate
- Interpersonal Neurobiology (100 hours) with Bonnie Badenoch via PCPSI (ongoing)
- Further training to work with complex trauma (CPTSD), domestic abuse, attachment theory and psychoanalysis
Registrations
I offer therapy in
Specialisations
- 1. Anxiety
- 2. Depression
- 3. Gender
- 4. Bereavement
- 5. Personality
- 6. Life transitions
- 7. Interpersonal Relationships
- 8. Trauma
- 9. Sex
Specialisations and Expertises
I specialise in working with individuals who wish to take steps to explore themselves, their lives and their relationships in a deeper way.Most common issues I support people with:
- Mood and emotions (stress, depression, anxiety, seeking joy and love, rage)
- Identity and purpose (self expression, life choices, transitions and your place in the world)
- Work, diagnosis and society (living within systems and coming to terms with labels)
- Relating to others (past and present, family, abuse, trauma, romance and friendship)
- Repeated life patterns and recovery (habits and compulsions, "this again" or "why me?", making changes)
Therapies offered
- ✓ Affordable counselling
- ✓ Compassion focused therapy
- ✓ Counselling
- ✓ Integrative Counselling
- ✓ Narrative Therapy
- ✓ Online counselling
- ✓ Person-centred therapy
- ✓ Psychodynamic therapy
- ✓ Psychotherapy
- ✓ Sand Tray Therapy
Areas of counselling I can help with
- ✓ Low self esteem
- ✓ Post-traumatic stress disorder
- ✓ Relationship issues
- ✓ Stress
- ✓ Trauma
- ✓ Worrying too much
Fees
My fee is £45 - £65, to be arranged individually.
I usually suggest booking an initial session to give you chance to discuss what brings you to therapy. There will be opportunity to address any of your questions or concerns here as well. And this is where we could talk about the practical aspects of how therapy might proceed, such as fees and appointment times. Should either of us feel I'm not the right therapist for you, I could then recommend someone.
Therapy takes time, so most people who continue will come once or twice a week for a while.
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