Counselling Service

COUNSELLING SERVICE for General Practitioners and their families and GP Registrars and their families in the Highlands

 Confidential counselling of a non-medical nature for individuals, couples or families.  Support through a team of professionally qualified and experienced counsellors.  An appointment as early as possible, and no longer than two weeks from initial contact.  Telephone counselling by appointment for those unable to travel regularly to Inverness  Confidential assistance for those wishing to see an alternative counsellor.

Financial Support - The first six sessions are financially supported by the L.M.C, the Royal College of General Practitioners or NHS Highland. This means that for any doctor or member of his or her family, the first six sessions are free. Finance is organised in a way that protects the identity and confidentiality of the person seeing the counsellor. Those wishing to continue seeing a counsellor beyond the six sessions can do so by paying a fee of £40.00 per session. The counsellor will negotiate a manageable fee for those unable to pay the full figure.

How to make contact - Any one of the team of counsellors can be contacted by telephone or email as indicated below:

Angela Prag

Qualifications - Diploma in Person Centred Counselling; Certificate in Person Centred Supervision. Recognised Supervisor : Relationships Scotland.

Angela trained as a Couples Counsellor and worked with Relationship Counselling Highland for many years. She now supervises for that organisation. She was Counsellor in a GP practice for nineteen years.

Memberships - MBACP Senior Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist; UKRCP Registered Independent Counsellor/Psychotherapist.

Other Information – Angela is a founder member of the GP counselling service and has many years’ experience. PC based counselling offers the opportunity to explore client issues, however complex and distressing they may be. The clients reason(s) for entering counselling stay at the focus of the work and the working relationship. The approach allows for the expression and exploration of both thoughts and feelings. This process can provide a base for a lessening of confusion and distress and opens up the possibility of seeing problems with new perspectives. It creates an opportunity for resolution and/or change.

Contact – Telephone - 01463 791697 (8.30am - 10.00am, 5.30pm - 9.00pm) Email - [email protected]

Jan Barrow

Qualifications – BA (Hons); MBACP Senior Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist

Memberships – UKRCP Registered Independent Counsellor/Psychotherapist.

Other Information – Jan is an integrative counsellor and worked for a number of years in General Practice. She is experienced in marital and relationship counselling and alcohol counselling. Jan also works as a counselling supervisor.

Contact – Telephone - 07806 921153 or Email - [email protected]

Tine Butterworth

Qualifications - Diploma in Couple Counselling; Diploma in Psychosexual Counselling; Certificate in Counselling for Children; MBACP. Accredited Couple Counsellor, Diploma in Psychosexual Therapy 2006, Certificate in Counselling Children & Young People

Memberships - Member of and adhering to the ethical frameworks of good practice of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and the British Association of Sexual and Relationship Therapy.

Further Information – Tine works with individuals, couples and children. She has many years experience of working in various settings including sexual health and family mediation. Tine is a Sexual and Relationship Psychotherapist / Counsellor in private practice working with individuals and couples who present with a range of sexual dysfunctions in accordance with DSM IV and relationship difficulties. She also provides clinical supervision to Counsellors/Therapists and Chaplaincy. Tine is a Project Worker/ Counsellor with Waverley Care Highland, an Edinburgh based sexual health charity, working in the field of HIV/AIDS, sexual assault, rape, sexual orientation, childhood sexual abuse, and sexual addiction. Counselling post-holder with Relationships Scotland Family Mediation Highland, Inverness, working with children and young people aged 5 – 18yrs who are experiencing difficulties as a result of parental separation, family breakdown and divorce.

Contact – Telephone: 01456 486275 or 07766 073104 Email - [email protected]

Linden Stefaniak

Memberships - Member of the BPS (Chartered Counselling Psychologist), Registered Member of BACP, Member of COSCA, registered with HCPC as a psychologist. Qualifications - MA and post-MA Diploma in Counselling Psychology at Regents College London, COSCA Certificate in Counselling Supervision at Edinburgh University with Distinction. MA and a BSc (hons.) majoring in Psychology.

Further Information – Linden’s areas of interest are clinical supervision (counsellors and other professionals in the helping professions), relationships, the therapeutic relationship, mind/body, and what in their past history leads individuals to become a helper of any kind. Linden works from an integrative perspective, using person- centred, psychodynamic, and existential counselling and psychotherapy.

Contact – Home - 01463 782607 Mobile - 07724153665 (only used for counselling work and checked once a day). Email - [email protected]

Rae Jack

Qualifications – Advanced Training in counselling supervision, Modules 1, 2 and 3.

Memberships – Member of BACP, UKRCP registered. Advanced Post Graduate Diploma in Person-Centred Counselling, Accredited member of The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, UK registered Independent Counsellor/Psychotherapist.

Further Information – Rae is a male Counsellor in his 60s with a professional background in mental health nursing. He is a registered community mental health nurse and self-employed counsellor that practices from rooms based in Inverness and Dingwall.

Contact – Home – 01349 882417 Mobile – 07887848941 Email - [email protected] Web – www.raejackcounselling.co.uk

Marina Sinclair

Qualifications - Diploma in Counselling, Accredited Counsellor with BACP Memberships - Registered Member of BACP and COSCA Further Information – Marina is an integrative counsellor and has worked for a number of years in the NHS Western Isles Counselling Service and in Private Practice. Marina provides a counselling service to both Students and Staff at the Lews Castle College UHI. She also provides a Counselling service via Occupational Health Departments within NHS Western Isles and the Local Authority. She has her own premises in Stornoway but will provide telephone and Skype counselling if you are unable to travel.

Contact – Telephone or Text - 07933 849 899 Email [email protected] Web - www.marinasinclair.co.uk P atricia Rigby

Qualifications – Diploma in Counselling, Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, Advanced Certificate in Substance Use and Misuse, Telephone Counselling Training, Accept Certificate Couple Work

Memberships – Patricia works to the BACP code of ethics although she is not an active member.

Further Information – Patricia qualified as a Person centred counsellor in the year 2 000. She worked with a variety of clients, with a wide range of issues whilst working at MIND in Stockport and also Greater Manchester Probation service. She obtained her advanced certificate in substance use/misuse in 2002 and has since worked with recovering alcoholics/drug users and their families. Patricia has 14 years experience of working with individuals using Carl Rogers approach of Person Centred Counselli ng. At the beginning of 2010 she trained with Relationship Counselling Highland wh ere she qualified to work in psychodynamic way with couples, she has continued to work for them seeing couples with relationship difficulties along with individuals. Patr icia is also employed at Brook Highland as a counsellor for the under 25's presenting with sexual health problems including pre and post pregnancy termination.

Contact – Home – 01463 811188 Mobile – 07949 784999 Email - [email protected]