Certificate in Couple Counselling - Relationships Scotland
Diploma in Casework Supervision - Relationships Scotland
Post Graduate Certificate Systemic and Family Practice - FTTN, Glasgow
Doctor of Ministry, Practical Theology (Specialising in Ethics, Spirituality, and cross-cultural work) -CTU Chicago
MA, Counselling - Loyola University of Chicago
Member of statutory regulatory and/or other professional body
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
COSCA (Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland)
Association for Family Therapy & Systemic Practices (AFT)
International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT)
I have been actively counselling since 2004 and have experience specialising in family counselling, individual and couples’ therapy. I use a wide range of therapeutic approaches including Person-Centred Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy systemic practice and Emotionally Focused Therapy. I counsel people from diverse national, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. I help them to confront a wide range of difficulties which have caused psychological suffering, such a trauma and domestic abuse.
I have been a tutor at Edinburgh University and am a qualified trainer in counselling. My experience includes supervising therapists from a wide range of counselling agencies across Scotland. This involves training therapists from modalities such as humanistic; existentialist; psychodynamic; emotionally focused and behavioural / cognitive.
My previous experience includes developing and implementing cutting-edge interventions, especially in relationship therapy. I am fluent in Spanish, and I have worked with youths caught in the gangs in Central America, concentrating on addressing hypermasculinity and promoting non-violence. This included psychologically based interventions and community-based support to re-integrate youths into the community.
I have worked as a clinical manager on both sides of the Atlantic, leading both small and large clinical and supervisory teams in a professional and ethical manner. I developed best practice approaches in demanding environments.
Specialist areas: Couples therapy; Individual therapy; Family counselling; Anxiety; low mood; Bereavement; loss; Low self-confidence; Low self-esteem; Relationship issues; Stress; Work-related stress; Spirituality; Spiritual abuse, Domestic abuse; coercively controlling relationships; separation and divorce.
I work with a variety of family problems; Stepfamily, or blended family; Transitions; Parental alienation; Estrangement; Shared parenting; Fostering and Adoption; Parenting children, adolescents.
