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- Edinburgh based - currently online sessions only -
Experience a more fulfilling life
Balance
- Edinburgh based - currently online sessions only -
Experience a more fulfilling life
What actually is Therapy?
Your Mental Health
I am not so keen on the phrase "mental health" - I prefer to call it your "thought life health" . Depression, fear, anxiety & panic attacks are some of the most common and uncomfortable emotions that we can experience. Through counselling, I'm able to help you recover motivation, perspective, purpose and joy that you once had .
Specifics
Aspergers ? Feeling different ? Fostered or adopted ? Boarding school ? Third culture kid? Come - you will be understood ..... Men - you think counselling wont work - come and give it a go - I promise that you don't have to do anything scary, or anything that you don't want to do ! Teen,, young adult, adult - you are welcome here.
Relationships
Relationships
Relationships and family are what make our lives work. If your relationships are not benefiting you, let's find out why.
ANGER seems to raise its ugly head in relationships. I believe, through counselling, that you can reduce your need to be angry substantially.
Andrew Gaskill - Counsellor/Therapist - EH12
I'm an Aussie, UK registered & accredited counsellor, with 15 years of experience counselling teenagers and adults. I use parts of various models (Choice Therapy, Narrative Therapy, CBT, Solution Focused , The Human Givens), and Single Session Therapy) to look for less healthy patterns and beliefs. We all wear blinkers. I help to widen your vision. You may feel a bit stuck, Therapy helps you to become unstuck.
I have worked and lived in various countries, travelling extensively. Alongside counselling and social care, I have worked in the travel, transport & tourism sectors for much of my life (We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us).
My vision is to see people living transformed lives, lives of freedom with choice, owning what makes us unique. Being liberated from everything that we summarise as Depression, Anxiety, Anger and Stress.
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” ( STEPHEN COVEY)
The right conversation can change a life
Therapy is a chance to talk with me about things in your life that don't make sense, or that make us sad, angry, confused, frustrated, or afraid. Talking with me can help you negotiate these things better, and feel more confidant about living your life.
Not everybody comes to counselling for a specific issue. Sometimes people want to explore a general feeling that their lives are not quite right; to develop a purpose, and to learn how to make conscious and more authentic choices.
‘Your emotions will drive the decisions you make today, and your success may depend upon your ability to understand and interpret them.’ Mary C Lamia PhD Psychology Today
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety” – Abraham Maslow
“If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it” — Richard Rohr
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou
Neurodiversity is welcome and respected here There is no recipe - we learn together. It is a collaboration. Whether you have received an official diagnosis, or feel aligned away from our culture's norms - consider therapy to make sense of your life, our wiring, our thoughts, feelings & expectations.
Therapy by Email
Better with the written word, opposed to the spoken word? Maybe email therapy might work well for you. Find it hard to articulate on the spot what you are feeling? Like to write things down and be prepared ? Writing helps you empty your mind, and articulate things? Consider therapy by email with Andrew
I waited eight months for therapy. If I hadn't been able to pay for counselling, I don't think I'd be here today.
What's going on in your teenager's head ....?
Our unmet emotional needs
How long should I stay in therapy?
How to choose a counsellor
Borrowing concepts from The Human Givens model. Click here to listen to a radio interview.
How to choose a counsellor
How long should I stay in therapy?
How to choose a counsellor
Click here for a BBC video clip
How long should I stay in therapy?
How long should I stay in therapy?
What's going on in your therapist's mind?
Ever wondered what your counsellor is thinking about during your therapy session ? I identify with much of this article.
Is counselling for the weird?
What's it like for a teen in therapy?
Why might I - a normal human being, consider therapy?
What's it like for a teen in therapy?
What's it like for a teen in therapy?
This Welsh video clip looks at what it may be like attending counselling as a teenager.
You do not have to do anything that you don't want to when you come to counselling. However there needs to be a desire of your own to attend, not just the desire of others around you.
FREE App - UpLift
This FREE app which does not have to be downloaded from an app store, has been developed by the Human Givens - a modern non-medicine approach to understanding and paying attention to what our feelings are signalling to us.