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About Bill

I provide a unique Counselling experience for my clients. I practice Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy from Persona. I am a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I’m also recognised by the British Association of Mindfulness Based Approaches as an experienced and qualified mindfulness and compassion teacher. Watch this video

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 qualified person-centred counsellor with the BACP I bring all of this experience together when working 1-2-1 with clients.

I have made a commitment to meet 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)