about Bill

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About Bill

Hello there, I’m Bill. I hold a Post Graduate qualification in Counselling & Psychotherapy. I’ve spent 15 years learning how to practically work with the mind and how this is intimately connected to the emotions and sensations held in the body. This means I have trained in somatic trauma informed practices and ways of being. The purpose of all my trainings has been to create a safe space for you, so that together we can create a relationship were you feel supported, heard and validated. In doing so, I passionately believe that we can gently work together with whatever you bring.

I am a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I’m also a member of the British Association of Mindfulness Based Approaches . My membership of these professional bodies demand that I am

  • fully insured to work with you
  • practicing within their code of ethics
  • attending regular supervision
  • maintaining regular CPD

I recognise the courage it takes to reach out and say “I need help”. I can certainly help. I can work with you to develop the safe and compassionate relationship you need to unravel what is causing you discomfort.

Since 2014, I have worked at the frontline of mental health and trauma in Fife. I started practicing mindfulness in 2010, and have studied with the Mindfulness Association ever since. For nearly 10 years, I’ve been teaching Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) to people experiencing anxiety and depression. As a psychotherapist I bring all of this experience together when working 1-2-1 with clients.

I have made a commitment to meet all human beings with a compassionate presence. This has been cultivated and reinvigorated by my recent completion of a one year ‘Person-centred, contact-orientated counselling/psychotherapy in a nature setting‘ with Heart Wood.

As well as my private practice, I’ve worked for Drugs Alcohol Psychotherapies Limited (DAPL) providing counselling to individuals experiencing trauma and addiction. I’m currently working 1 day per week as a counsellor with VOCAL – “caring for unpaid carers”. I love wild swimming in the sea and lochs.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
Louise Erdrich (recipient of 2021 Pulitzer Prize)