Ingrid Bell
Ingrid has over ten years experience of working as a state registered
art therapist. She is a member of the Health Professions Council and registered
with The British Association of Art Therapists, who also recognise her as a
Private Practitioner and Supervisor. As a supervisor she offers both individual
and group supervision. She has further trained at the Scottish Institute of
Human Relations and holds a diploma in ‘Therapeutic Skills with Children
and Young People.’ Most recently Ingrid has completed training in EMDR
to European Standard and is also offering this at Wellspring. Ingrid works with
a wide range of client issues as she works across the age spectrum, from children
to those in their later years. Work may be long or short term, with or without
image making dependent on the clients needs. The aim is to foster self-awareness
and growth in the client by mutually reflecting on what happens within the therapeutic
space and relationship and drawing on the clients enabling resources.
Adrian Christie
Adrian works from
a background of both hynotherapy and counselling to help reveal the roots of
a particular problem and uses suggestion and behavioural practice to promote
generative change at the conscious level. He likes to focus on specific behaviour
patterns and emotional responses - typically depression, anxiety, phobias, compulsions
and relationship issues.
Pam Brown
Pam is a Chartered
Psychologist who has worked with children and adults for over twenty years.
Pam uses an integrative approach drawing on her training in Psychology, Counselling
and Hypnotherapy. Pam provides a supportive environment working with an individual
based on his or her personal situation. Pam is an Accredited Practitioner and
Consultant with EMDR-Europe, fully qualified to work with children and adults.
Pam specialises in working with anxiety, phobia, trauma and PTSD.
Ian Fuller
Ian is BACP accredited and has been working as a counsellor since 1996,
when he finished his initial training in Gestalt therapy. His aim as therapist
is to support clients to see themselves and their situation with clarity, and
to enable them to find and speak whatever is true for them. He is also interested
in exploring how to uncover and free ourselves from the self-limiting beliefs
and messages which we all carry. He has a particular interest in how underlying
family dynamics can shape our lives and how we can come to terms with the influence
of our family's past. In addition to Gestalt, Ian has trained in Family Constellations
Therapy in London and Germany. He works as a counsellor, counsellor trainer
and therapy group facilitator, and has a part-time job managing a counselling
service in Edinburgh.
Bridget
Grant
Bridget works with
adults and young people, both individually and in groups. This includes
long term open ended work and also short term solution focussed therapy.
She is a member of BAAT and state registered with the Health Professional Council.
In addition Bridget is a BAAT approved private practitioner and supervisor.
While grounded in a psychodynamic art therapy training, over the years her practice
has developed an exploratory and more eclectic approach which aims to respond
and adapt to the individual and the needs of their process. In this, the
work may or may not include the use of image making. While always remaining
contained within the therapeutic relationship, she aims to work with the client
to help identify and build upon their own resources for growth and change.
Hephzibah Kolban
Hephzibah,
as psychodynamic counsellor, works with the relationships clients bring
with themselves and others into the therapeutic situation. All the unmet needs,
difficulties around self-esteem, trust and life direction that have had to be
put away can be explored in an uncritical setting. She is a Rosen Method Bodywork
therapist and brings attention to the mind/body connection. Trained at the Scottish
Institute of Human relations, she has been a counsellor at Wellspring for 16
years.
John MacFadyen
John has had many
years experience of providing supportive counselling and guidance to children
and families. He is a qualified psychotherapist (UKCP registered) and social
worker (CQSW) and has been working as a member of Wellspring's team since 1996.
John believes in the natural impetus within each of us towards health, ongoing
development and fulfilment. He sees individuals, couples, families and within
this works in partnership with clients to bring sensitive awareness and new
energy to areas of life struggle, personal pain and relationship difficulties.
Kate McGarry
Kate works from a
person-centred approach, believing that each person knows what they need themselves
to bring about change and growth, and offers an environment which facilitates
that. She has practised in the counselling field since 1994, working with a
broad range of issues. She has experience in various settings including Health,
Education and the Voluntary Sector, particularly with women dealing with sexual
abuse, and long-term mental health. She works with both short and long-term
issues, offers supervision and is also a supervisor for trainees at Wellspring
.
Maggie MacKechnie
Maggie is a senior
student at the Karuna Institute training for an M.A. in Buddhist Psychotherapy
Practice. Core Process is a psychotherapy based on both Buddhist and western
psychological knowledge of human suffering. It holds as a fundamental principle
that we are each, in our basic nature, whole and well and that through experiences
in relationships throughout our lives we have become unhappy and divided within
ourselves. The therapy Maggie offers takes the form of an exploration into whatever
the client brings, whether major life changes, relationship problems or anything
that affects health and well being. Maggie believes that deep listening and
the effect of paying attention to what is experienced moment by moment by client
and therapist, enables old defensive patterns of living to be recognised and
let go of, and to enable deeper resources to emerge. Maggie has training and
experience of 30 years in psychodynamic social work (CQSW), specialising in
working with families and in child Psychiatry. In addition she trained in Jungian
dream work. She is a member of ACPP and AHPP.
Shari Cohn-Simmen
Shari is an integrative
therapist, working from a person-centred perspective but drawing on insights
from psychodynamic and transpersonal approaches. Central to her way of working
is building a trusting relationship with each person, providing a safe environment
with clear boundaries in which s/he can do the work they need to do. Shari's
experience is that by working in the here-and-now with a client, on listening
to what is said and not said, and working in symbolic ways, such as through
dreams, clients get more in touch with feelings and often childhood issues which
may have remained unvoiced and/or unresolved but still affect them in the present.
She places great value on allowing each individual to be heard, in helping them
make insights, and fostering enhanced self-awareness and personal growth. Shari
studied in the United States before completing her PhD in psychology from the
University of Edinburgh. She has been a Chartered Psychologist with the British
Psychological Society since 1997. Shari has a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling
(University of Edinburgh) and is a member of BACP aand practitioner member of
COSCA.
Catherine Shea
Catherine Shea has been involved in counselling, training and counselling
supervision for more than 20 years. She originally trained in relationship counselling
and also in specialist bereavement work. She went on to work in Student Services,
and to run a drug and alcohol counselling service for several years, before
developing and running BACP accredited MA in Counselling at Durham University.
She has particular interest in mental health issues and in working with carers.
Her approach is grounded in the Person-Centred tradition and founded on collaboration
and respect: this means that she works with what each client brings at the level
that they wish and in the way that suits them. She is trained in Cognitive Analytic
Therapy (CAT) which offers practical tools for understanding, mapping and changing
patterns in relationship and can be used in short or longer term therapy. Depending
on your needs and learning style, she might offer these CAT tools and/or creative
approaches including art and sandplay. She is trained in Therapeutic Play and
offers Non-Directive Play Therapy to children and young people from 4 -16 years.
She is also trained in Spiritual Accompaniment and works with people from all
faith traditions to explore their sense of the broader purpose in their lives.
She is Practitioner member of COSCA.
Gary Smith
Gary works within a humanistic and integrative approach, with firm
roots in his training of gestalt psychotherapy. He places great emphasis on
giving space for clients to bring issues at their own pace and explore what
is nourishing and what is less satisfying in their lives. Gary aims to support
clients to achieve a greater awareness of how they relate and interact in the
world and to foster a sense of personal responsibility and autonomy. Gary has
over 25 years experience of personal development work, with both individuals
and groups, including working within mental health projects, teaching in further
education and as a freelance community artist. Gary has completed a further
training in Psychodrama Psychotherapy and regularly offers Creative Therapy
workshops and psychodrama therapy group weekends involving creative art and
action drama methods.
Mike Wilson
Mike is
a psychotherapist, counsellor (UKAHPP Acc. UKCP Reg.) and transpersonal psychology
practitioner, working with a range of difficulties and drawing upon numerous
trainings and extensive experience in the area of personal development spanning
more than three decades. He has been practising at Wellspring since 1997. He
has an interest in working with dreams, and is a member of the Confederation
for Analytical Psychology. He is also a qualified, experienced and registered
teacher and educator, and offers a range of psychospiritual workshops and trainings
throughout the UK and sometimes farther afield, and is founder of Psychospiritual
Scotland. He is also a trained and experienced supervisor. He practises in Edinburgh
and from his home in the Scottish Borders.