About Lorna Donaldson Counselling & Psychotherapy

The overall aim of therapy is to provide an opportunity for the client to work towards living in a more satisfying and resourceful way.

It is a helping activity that involves facilitating them in processing their experience and making desired changes in their feeling, thinking and behaviour. It can free clients from old and malfunctioning ways of behaving, and enable them to choose new ways of changing and living their lives.

I offer private and confidential counselling to individuals, couples and young people. My experience extends over 25 years and I set up my private practice in 2004.

I offer a safe space for clients to explore their concerns. The client’s emotional well-being is my mission. I invite new clients to get in touch to discuss their needs.

My training, work experience and any achievement

BSc Honours, Post graduate DIP C&C
REGISTERED PRACTITIONER FOR THE UNDERSTANDING YOUR EATING (UYE)programme


Continuing Professional Development - The recent courses I have attended to increase my knowledge have included:
Working with Dreams and Active Imagination in Jungian analysis 2011
Anger, Rage and Relationships 2011
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course (Wellspring) 2011
Fundamentals in Gestalt (Edinburgh Gestalt Institute) 2010
Working safely with Domestic Conflict (R.S.) 2010
Sex and the Net (R.S.) 2010
Psychoanalytic Conference, London 2009
Counselling, Attachment and Neuroscience module (Edinburgh University) 2008
Domestic Violence/Abuse Awareness and Safety (R.S.C.C.C.) 2007
ASSIST Suicide Intervention 2006
Family Constellations 2006
Working with Dreams 2006
Training in Understanding Your eating Programme 2012/2013
Introduction to Emotional Freedom Techniques 2013
Recognising & Understanding Sex Addiction 2013
Making Connections BACP 2012
Introduction to Compassion-Focussed Therapy for Shame and Self-Critical difficulties 2012
Coming Out in the Counselling Room 2012
Compulsive /Binge Eating 2012
Working with Disordered Eating 2012
Anorexia / Bulimia 2012
Understanding my clients using Bioenergetics 2011
The Impact of Affairs 2011
SHAME – The Hidden core
Emotional- focussed therapy
Compassion- focussed therapy
EFT
Sexual addiction