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Individual
Counselling

Standard fee: £60

Who Can I Help?

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Trauma & its Impact

Perhaps you are looking to: 

  • Process past experiences that still feel present today

  • Heal from childhood trauma or neglect

  • Recover from accidents, loss, or life-altering events

  • Work through trauma held in the body, not just the mind

  • Make sense of symptoms like flashbacks, numbness, or hypervigilance

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Romantic & Intimate Relationships

You may want to:

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  • Navigate conflict, distance, or dissatisfaction in your relationship

  • Understand why certain relationship dynamics keep repeating

  • Recover from heartbreak, betrayal, or a painful break-up

  • Explore patterns around intimacy, trust, or emotional availability

  • Build a more secure and fulfilling relationship with a partner

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Grief, Loss & Life Transitions

You may be looking to:

  • Process bereavement and the many forms grief can take

  • Navigate loss that others don't always recognise e.g., break-ups, estrangement, infertility

  • Adjust to major life changes that have shifted your sense of self

  • Sit with uncertainty when the future feels unclear

  • Find meaning and continuity through periods of change

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Family & Other Relationships

You may be looking for support with:

  • Navigating difficult or painful family dynamics

  • Processing the impact of a critical, absent, or harmful parent

  • Setting boundaries with family members or friends

  • Working through estrangement or complicated losses in relationships

  • Understanding how early relationships still shape you today

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Abuse, Violence & Coercive Control

You may be looking to:

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  • Make sense of experiences that were minimised or unnamed

  • Recover from intimate partner abuse or domestic violence

  • Untangle the lasting effects of coercive or controlling relationships

  • Rebuild a sense of self after prolonged manipulation

  • Finding safety, internally and in relationships, after abuse

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Sex, Intimacy & the Body

Perhaps you want to:

  • Explore a complicated or painful relationship with sex

  • Address shame, avoidance, or disconnection around intimacy

  • Understand how trauma or past experiences live in the body

  • Navigate sexual identity, desires, or concerns

  • Build a more accepting relationship with your body and its needs

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Self-Worth, Shame & Identity

You may be looking to:

  • Challenge deep-seated beliefs about not being enough

  • Work through shame, self-blame, or harsh self-criticism

  • Explore who you are beyond the roles you play for others

  • Rebuild confidence and self-trust after difficult experiences

  • Develop a kinder, more compassionate relationship with yourself

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LGBTQ+ & Queer Identity

You may want to:

  • Explore identity, sexuality, or gender in an affirming space

  • Navigate coming out to yourself or others

  • Process experiences of discrimination, rejection, or minority stress

  • Unpack internalised shame around identity

  • Find a sense of self beyond others' expectations or labels

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"Starting therapy with Debbie was one of the best decisions I've made. Sometimes it helps to have someone experienced listen, and help you learn about you." 
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I work in a client-centred way and adapt my therapeutic approach to provide the kind of therapy that works best for you. I provide an empathic, non-judgemental and genuine space that facilitates self-exploration, growth and healing. I work closely together with my clients to provide a warm, confidential and safe space.

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Availability

I am currently open to take new clients. I work Mondays to Thursdays.

I offer worldwide online and in-person Dundee City Centre therapy sessions.

Payments

Payments

  • Standard fee: £60 for 50-minute sessions

  • Payments through bank transfer before each session.

  • Concession fees available for a limited number of clients.

  • Longer sessions available on request.

Languages

Languages

I provide sessions in English or French.

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Online & In-Person Therapy

I can accept clients from the UK and internationally for online sessions.

 

I am also offering in-person sessions from my office in Dundee City Centre.

Confidentiality

Please note:

Where a third party is paying for your session(s), I require them to sign a third-party payment contract. This confirms that while they are paying for the sessions, the sessions are completely confidential and they are not entitled to any information about you or your support. 

Have more questions? Read through the Q&A section or get in touch below.

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