Transactional Analysis Counselling in Midlothian

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Lisa Cherry-Byrnes
Counsellor, MBACP
Penicuik EH26
I am a counsellor in Transactional Analysis, I've been in practice since 2013.
People seek therapy & counselling for different reasons & you will have your own unique life experiences that may cause you unhappiness or you may find yourself at crisis point feeling unsure of what to do next. I have worked with many different clients from across the social & cultural spectrum from medical professionals to artists, full-time students to stay at home parents & retirees. I understand that often it is the first step, no matter who we are, that can feel the hardest; the reaching out & making contact. You may want to explore options for change, make sense of a difficult experience or gain new strategies for coping.
I am a counsellor in Transactional Analysis, I've been in practice since 2013.
People seek therapy & counselling for different reasons & you will have your own unique life experiences that may cause you unhappiness or you may find yourself at crisis point feeling unsure of what to do next. I have worked with many different clients from across the social & cultural spectrum from medical professionals to artists, full-time students to stay at home parents & retirees. I understand that often it is the first step, no matter who we are, that can feel the hardest; the reaching out & making contact. You may want to explore options for change, make sense of a difficult experience or gain new strategies for coping.
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Rory Ross
Counsellor, MBACP
Online Only
My speciality is using Transactional Analysis (TA), a form of social psychology that helps you understand your personality, how you interact with others and how past life events could be affecting your here-and-now experience.
Working with me can lead you to greater self-awareness, and increase your understanding of why you react to situations the way you do, leading to a healthier relationship with yourself, family, friends and work colleagues. You can lift depression, ease your anxiety and overcome other problems that can affect your mental wellbeing.
My speciality is using Transactional Analysis (TA), a form of social psychology that helps you understand your personality, how you interact with others and how past life events could be affecting your here-and-now experience.
Working with me can lead you to greater self-awareness, and increase your understanding of why you react to situations the way you do, leading to a healthier relationship with yourself, family, friends and work colleagues. You can lift depression, ease your anxiety and overcome other problems that can affect your mental wellbeing.
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Susanne Elisabetha Pugh
Counsellor, MBACP
Dalkeith EH22
My approach is grounded in Transactional Analysis and enriched by my work as an accredited mindfulness teacher.
Trauma-informed Counselling in Galashiels and Dalkeith. Support for trauma, adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, anxiety and relationship healing. I’m Susanne Elisabetha Pugh, an integrative counsellor based in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders, offering both face -to -face and online sessions. I specialise in supporting adults who are living with the effects of trauma, childhood sexual abuse, anxiety and relationship difficulties.
My approach is grounded in Transactional Analysis and enriched by my work as an accredited mindfulness teacher.
Trauma-informed Counselling in Galashiels and Dalkeith. Support for trauma, adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, anxiety and relationship healing. I’m Susanne Elisabetha Pugh, an integrative counsellor based in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders, offering both face -to -face and online sessions. I specialise in supporting adults who are living with the effects of trauma, childhood sexual abuse, anxiety and relationship difficulties.
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Victoria Gillingham
Counsellor, DCounsPsych, MCOSCA
1 Endorsed
Dalkeith EH22
I often use Transactional Analysis Therapy in my practice.
Having worked in the field of mental health for over 30 years, I have a deep understanding of the challenges people are faced with on a daily basis. How we experience these challenges can become overwhelming and we can feel alone, helpless and disconnected. There may be times when it's useful to seek help outside of your current circle of support by talking with a counsellor and I can help you find new ways to explore and manage the difficulties you are experiencing. I work with individuals & couples to offer short-term counselling to address immediate concerns, and long term psychotherapy to address complex issues.
I often use Transactional Analysis Therapy in my practice.
Having worked in the field of mental health for over 30 years, I have a deep understanding of the challenges people are faced with on a daily basis. How we experience these challenges can become overwhelming and we can feel alone, helpless and disconnected. There may be times when it's useful to seek help outside of your current circle of support by talking with a counsellor and I can help you find new ways to explore and manage the difficulties you are experiencing. I work with individuals & couples to offer short-term counselling to address immediate concerns, and long term psychotherapy to address complex issues.
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Evangelia Botsaki
Counsellor, MBACP
Dalkeith EH22
I’d like to begin by welcoming you and acknowledging the step it takes to begin therapy, especially if you have spent much of your life feeling “not good enough,” “too much,” or as though you don’t quite belong. I am a qualified Counsellor working primarily with anxiety and trauma, and I often support people who carry deep-rooted feelings of shame, inadequacy, or self-doubt that began in early life. When we grow up in environments where our emotional needs are not consistently met, we can internalise painful messages that continue to shape how we relate to ourselves and others in adulthood.
I’d like to begin by welcoming you and acknowledging the step it takes to begin therapy, especially if you have spent much of your life feeling “not good enough,” “too much,” or as though you don’t quite belong. I am a qualified Counsellor working primarily with anxiety and trauma, and I often support people who carry deep-rooted feelings of shame, inadequacy, or self-doubt that began in early life. When we grow up in environments where our emotional needs are not consistently met, we can internalise painful messages that continue to shape how we relate to ourselves and others in adulthood.
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Chai Counselling Ltd
Counsellor, DCounsPsych, MCOSCA
Serves Area
When you encounter difficult times in our day to day lives it is helpful to be able to talk these through with someone who is trained and objective. To help you explore the issues that matter to you, bringing insight and understanding to enable you to find your way through problems and dilemmas.
When you encounter difficult times in our day to day lives it is helpful to be able to talk these through with someone who is trained and objective. To help you explore the issues that matter to you, bringing insight and understanding to enable you to find your way through problems and dilemmas.
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Rachel Rickman
Psychotherapist, MBACP
1 Endorsed
Serves Area
Waitlist for new clients
Hello I’m Rachel and a very warm welcome. As you find yourself here, you may be feeling stuck in life at the moment and perhaps issues or difficulties may be causing you distress or to feel overwhelmed. Perhaps you feel anxious, depressed or have low self esteem? Often through no fault of our own we can get caught up in these difficult cycles. The good news is I can help you get "unstuck" and help you to achieve lasting change in your life. I will help you move towards your goals and lead a more fulfilled life. I am here to support you every step of the way, giving you the space and time to discover yourself.
Hello I’m Rachel and a very warm welcome. As you find yourself here, you may be feeling stuck in life at the moment and perhaps issues or difficulties may be causing you distress or to feel overwhelmed. Perhaps you feel anxious, depressed or have low self esteem? Often through no fault of our own we can get caught up in these difficult cycles. The good news is I can help you get "unstuck" and help you to achieve lasting change in your life. I will help you move towards your goals and lead a more fulfilled life. I am here to support you every step of the way, giving you the space and time to discover yourself.
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Hazel Stevenson
Counsellor, MCOSCA
1 Endorsed
Serves Area
Welcome! Talking is a wonderful way to share what’s on your mind. You may not even know what is bothering you, but by talking, it helps to get in touch with your emotions and make sense of your thoughts. Changes are often small but can be significant. Speaking with someone who is really listening and can offer a non-judgemental space to fully express yourself, improve your self awareness, and accept you for being you, can help!
Welcome! Talking is a wonderful way to share what’s on your mind. You may not even know what is bothering you, but by talking, it helps to get in touch with your emotions and make sense of your thoughts. Changes are often small but can be significant. Speaking with someone who is really listening and can offer a non-judgemental space to fully express yourself, improve your self awareness, and accept you for being you, can help!
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Sarah Worth
Counsellor, MSc, ACC Reg
Serves Area
Hello and Welcome to Worth Counselling, a safe and supportive counselling space for women! I don’t know if you have ever had the opportunity to share your story where someone really listens. I mean really listens, wanting to know you, your story, your ups and downs. Where nothing is off limits. Space to speak what maybe you’ve never spoken before. Sitting in the counsellee seat is not always easy and opening up to someone you do not know can be daunting. I know that taking that first step requires courage and I would love to walk with you on your journey.
Hello and Welcome to Worth Counselling, a safe and supportive counselling space for women! I don’t know if you have ever had the opportunity to share your story where someone really listens. I mean really listens, wanting to know you, your story, your ups and downs. Where nothing is off limits. Space to speak what maybe you’ve never spoken before. Sitting in the counsellee seat is not always easy and opening up to someone you do not know can be daunting. I know that taking that first step requires courage and I would love to walk with you on your journey.
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Online Therapists

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Katy Scott
Psychotherapist, MUKCP
1 Endorsed
UKCP registered Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and Trainer with 14 years experience. I work with people who have/are experiencing difficulties with any type of relationship such as romantic, family, work, peers, and people experiencing emotional abuse/coercion and control in relationships. I work with people struggling with compulsive sexual behaviours-sometimes known as porn/sex addiction, and I offer therapy to individuals, couples and groups.
UKCP registered Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and Trainer with 14 years experience. I work with people who have/are experiencing difficulties with any type of relationship such as romantic, family, work, peers, and people experiencing emotional abuse/coercion and control in relationships. I work with people struggling with compulsive sexual behaviours-sometimes known as porn/sex addiction, and I offer therapy to individuals, couples and groups.
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Salma Siddique
Psychotherapist, MUKCP
Dundee DD2
Epistemicide is the destruction of navigational maps crafted from ancestral knowledge and personal experience, leaving us disoriented in a world simultaneously familiar and alien. As we confront this erasure, therapy emerges as a dynamic space for deep exploration—an ethnographic study of one's life where agency meets healing justice. Here, our narratives challenge systemic violence while we question frameworks of belonging in a world determined to dictate their terms, meaningful conversation, we navigate our hybrid identities with their contradictory yet authentic stories, transforming discomfort from cultural loss and oppression.
Epistemicide is the destruction of navigational maps crafted from ancestral knowledge and personal experience, leaving us disoriented in a world simultaneously familiar and alien. As we confront this erasure, therapy emerges as a dynamic space for deep exploration—an ethnographic study of one's life where agency meets healing justice. Here, our narratives challenge systemic violence while we question frameworks of belonging in a world determined to dictate their terms, meaningful conversation, we navigate our hybrid identities with their contradictory yet authentic stories, transforming discomfort from cultural loss and oppression.
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Cheryl Young
Psychotherapist, MBACP Accred
1 Endorsed
Falkirk FK1
My approach to CBT is humanistic, it is blended, which I believe allows for a custom treatment plan to suit your needs, your goal, address your issues and leaving therapy with a wide range of new tools and coping mechanisms. As well as CBT, I bring elements of Compassion Focused Therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as well as Art Therapy. My experience allows me to support adults, young people and children struggling with all types anxiety and depressive disorders, including, social anxiety, health anxiety, low self esteem, OCD, Bi Polar, Borderline Personality Disorder and grief.
My approach to CBT is humanistic, it is blended, which I believe allows for a custom treatment plan to suit your needs, your goal, address your issues and leaving therapy with a wide range of new tools and coping mechanisms. As well as CBT, I bring elements of Compassion Focused Therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as well as Art Therapy. My experience allows me to support adults, young people and children struggling with all types anxiety and depressive disorders, including, social anxiety, health anxiety, low self esteem, OCD, Bi Polar, Borderline Personality Disorder and grief.
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Clare Williamina Foster
Verified Verified
Falkirk FK1
Hi There, Im Clare, I am a qualified psychotherapist and have been working in the counselling field since 2015, I understand all too well what life circumstances can bring people into the counselling room. It can be a very hard decision to make to come to therapy as the process can be emotional. I offer safe and confidential counselling with an integrative approach that really works well with life issues. Taking the first step to come into counselling is often the hardest part, I would love to work with you through whatever life situation you may be facing or have experienced.
Hi There, Im Clare, I am a qualified psychotherapist and have been working in the counselling field since 2015, I understand all too well what life circumstances can bring people into the counselling room. It can be a very hard decision to make to come to therapy as the process can be emotional. I offer safe and confidential counselling with an integrative approach that really works well with life issues. Taking the first step to come into counselling is often the hardest part, I would love to work with you through whatever life situation you may be facing or have experienced.
07480 487107 View 07480 487107
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Dr Susie Heggarty
Psychologist, MBBS, GMBPsS
Online Only
Looking for the headspace and a helping hand to break through the noise – the circular thoughts, the well-meaning advice? Trying to feel like the boss of your life again? Wanting to move forward but feeling stuck or questioning your direction? Maybe you know what you need to do, but doubt how you can get there? You want to gain real confidence, manage challenging relationships, or stop feeling overwhelmed by a complex decision. Hi there! I’m Dr Susie and I can help you with all of that. To build clarity and confidence, as well as, strategy, actionable steps and the personal tools to thrive amidst the unavoidable challenges of life.
Looking for the headspace and a helping hand to break through the noise – the circular thoughts, the well-meaning advice? Trying to feel like the boss of your life again? Wanting to move forward but feeling stuck or questioning your direction? Maybe you know what you need to do, but doubt how you can get there? You want to gain real confidence, manage challenging relationships, or stop feeling overwhelmed by a complex decision. Hi there! I’m Dr Susie and I can help you with all of that. To build clarity and confidence, as well as, strategy, actionable steps and the personal tools to thrive amidst the unavoidable challenges of life.
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Linda Smith
Counsellor, MBACP
Glasgow G41
Sometimes we experience changes or traumas that leave us struggling with the pressures of life, relationships, work, or studies. This can affect our self-esteem, our sense of identity, and our ability to cope. This can become overwhelming and may lead us to unhelpful or harmful thoughts and behaviours. With help, we can overcome our difficulties and learn to manage our emotions more effectively. With compassion, empathy, respect, and a safe space, we feel heard, considered, and valued. By understanding our thoughts and behaviours we can feel empowered to make positive changes that can lead us to fuller and more enjoyable lives.
Sometimes we experience changes or traumas that leave us struggling with the pressures of life, relationships, work, or studies. This can affect our self-esteem, our sense of identity, and our ability to cope. This can become overwhelming and may lead us to unhelpful or harmful thoughts and behaviours. With help, we can overcome our difficulties and learn to manage our emotions more effectively. With compassion, empathy, respect, and a safe space, we feel heard, considered, and valued. By understanding our thoughts and behaviours we can feel empowered to make positive changes that can lead us to fuller and more enjoyable lives.
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Laura Keay Msc
Psychotherapist, MSc, MUKCP
Eyemouth TD14
We all need support at one time or another and the fact that you are reading this tells me that you are curious about reaching out for that support, either for yourself or a loved one. This can be a very worrying time, and one that needs to be dealt with gently and with great consideration. I've worked with clients ranging in age from 4 - 100, across a variety of locations and environments. Physical and emotional change can happen at any age and that is the focus of my work - facilitating change for my clients. I work face-to face and online from the beautiful coastal village of Coldingham, Berwickshire.
We all need support at one time or another and the fact that you are reading this tells me that you are curious about reaching out for that support, either for yourself or a loved one. This can be a very worrying time, and one that needs to be dealt with gently and with great consideration. I've worked with clients ranging in age from 4 - 100, across a variety of locations and environments. Physical and emotional change can happen at any age and that is the focus of my work - facilitating change for my clients. I work face-to face and online from the beautiful coastal village of Coldingham, Berwickshire.
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Louise Jane Woodward
Counsellor, DCounsPsych, MCOSCA
2 Endorsed
Cupar KY15
Do you find yourself feeling disconnected, lost, or struggling with your sense of identity after a traumatic experience? Trauma can often lead to a profound sense of disconnection from oneself. Together, we'll explore different techniques, empowering you to reconnect with your true identity, rediscover your strengths, and reclaim your sense of self. Not all emotions or experiences can be easily put into words. I incorporate creative methods to explore emotions, thoughts, and experiences in a non-verbal way, fostering a deeper understanding and facilitating healing.
Do you find yourself feeling disconnected, lost, or struggling with your sense of identity after a traumatic experience? Trauma can often lead to a profound sense of disconnection from oneself. Together, we'll explore different techniques, empowering you to reconnect with your true identity, rediscover your strengths, and reclaim your sense of self. Not all emotions or experiences can be easily put into words. I incorporate creative methods to explore emotions, thoughts, and experiences in a non-verbal way, fostering a deeper understanding and facilitating healing.
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I specialise in supporting adults who live in rural communities, who feel overwhelmed, isolated, or impacted by significant life challenges. Many of my clients are managing the emotional strain of career-ending illness or injury, trauma, divorce, grief and loss - including the often overlooked grief that can accompany the loss of animals. I frequently work with people who are under pressure to keep going while experiencing anxiety, depression, or issues relating to diagnosis of ADHD or autism. Rural life can bring unique stresses and many people feel they must cope alone.
I specialise in supporting adults who live in rural communities, who feel overwhelmed, isolated, or impacted by significant life challenges. Many of my clients are managing the emotional strain of career-ending illness or injury, trauma, divorce, grief and loss - including the often overlooked grief that can accompany the loss of animals. I frequently work with people who are under pressure to keep going while experiencing anxiety, depression, or issues relating to diagnosis of ADHD or autism. Rural life can bring unique stresses and many people feel they must cope alone.
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Rebecca Newport
Counsellor, MBACP
1 Endorsed
Ipswich IP9
I am a fully qualified integrative counsellor. I work from a humanistic core, which means that I keep you at the centre of our work. However, I do not believe that therapy is a one-size-fits-all process. We are all unique, and different therapeutic approaches may feel more akin to you than others. Being an integrative therapist means that I can draw on a number of approaches and skills in our work together. These are integrated seamlessly, allowing us to work in a way that feels right for you. I have experience working with many different problems, with a particular interest in fertility-related issues and childhood sexual abuse.
I am a fully qualified integrative counsellor. I work from a humanistic core, which means that I keep you at the centre of our work. However, I do not believe that therapy is a one-size-fits-all process. We are all unique, and different therapeutic approaches may feel more akin to you than others. Being an integrative therapist means that I can draw on a number of approaches and skills in our work together. These are integrated seamlessly, allowing us to work in a way that feels right for you. I have experience working with many different problems, with a particular interest in fertility-related issues and childhood sexual abuse.
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Craig Gee
Counsellor, MBACP
Edinburgh EH12
If you’re here, you might be feeling that gap between the life you’re living and the life you want. You’re not alone in this, and together, we can work to close that distance. The goal is to help you explore what’s been holding you back and to uncover the strengths and values that can guide you forward. Facing what’s uncertain can be daunting. It’s natural to want to avoid the things that bring discomfort or fear. But often, it’s in facing these challenges, side by side, that we discover our resilience.
If you’re here, you might be feeling that gap between the life you’re living and the life you want. You’re not alone in this, and together, we can work to close that distance. The goal is to help you explore what’s been holding you back and to uncover the strengths and values that can guide you forward. Facing what’s uncertain can be daunting. It’s natural to want to avoid the things that bring discomfort or fear. But often, it’s in facing these challenges, side by side, that we discover our resilience.
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