Transforming Trauma
Transforming Trauma
At the Pearce Institute in Govan the Govan Community Project community workers help asylum seekers access basic services; health, food-banks, shelter and support them with their asylum claims and appeals. I volunteered six weekly counselling sessions for the support workers. The sessions were a space to discuss their jobs, like supervision or any aspect of …
I have been volunteering at Kingsway Health and Wellbeing Centre, Scotstoun, Glasgow for the last ten months, spending one day a week meeting with local residents. While the physical buildings have been improved this community lacks places for people to express themselves and enact the changes they would like to see. However, in this very …
It is now one year since I began the full-time MSc in Person-centred Counselling and Psychotherapy with professor Robert Elliott and the team at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. This is the first time a one-year British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) approved course and has been a busy year for us all. During this programme, …
Maryhill Integration Network (MIN) exists to bring communities in Glasgow together. I have been offering weekly counselling sessions as part of my MSc in Person-centred counselling and psychotherapy to volunteers and asylum seekers. MIN aims to help people newly arrived in Glasgow by offering practical and social support to all. People who have benefitted from …
As part of my MSc in Person-centred Counselling and Psychotherapy, I volunteered in a school in Dunbar, Scotland to support parents of children accessing additional support. Some families were looking for parenting coaching, others a place to express anxieties about their children’s behaviour at home or in school. Common features were families considering or awaiting …
I am at the mid-point of my MSc in Person Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy. I am now a student member of the British Association for Psychotherapy and have nearly 40 client hours under my belt. I am well supported by two excellent supervisors, friends and my husband, who have needed to pick me up a …
If you look at the pages on this site you will see that I love to travel and I am so excited to be off to Rome in a week. I will be spending 2 months in Northern Italy, Vienna and at the home of a good friend in Slovenia. I have wanted to travel …
With Vibrant Life I am trying to put my ideas together about the work I’d like to be doing in the second half of my life. I know it involves holding space and mind/body work and navigating the bridge between the professional and the personal. It involves my work with children, adolescents, families and teachers …
I am so excited to be starting this platform, it feels like a pivotal moment form me and I want to offer everything as one time rather than structure it in a linear way. I find myself asking what goes first and what is later, but the joy of the blog is you can take …