Scribblings of a Psychotherapist

  NEW OFFER!! Get your first 3 months of room rental for £10 instead of £14.    Whether you're looking for a new space to see clients from, need an additional place or starting out in private practice, why not take advantage of our special offer? If you're new to private practice, we can also offer you discounts, as a registered room user, on other services, such as supervision and private practice mentoring too.   Rooms are suitable for psychotherapy, counselling, hypnotherapy, psychology, small meetings and interviews and lone-working (for non therapists too). Regular and semi-regular bookings only - unfortunately we cannot accomodate one-off bookings or only bookings that happen a few times per year at this time.    We have viewings available on Tuesday 4th March (and most other Tuesday mornings) so get in touch today to find out how we can support you with your practice. Get in touch to book a viewing, if you need any more information or have any questi...

It's Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2025! What are you doing to mark this week? We've already had an event on Saturday and are offering some more training/workshops later this week to help raise awareness of eating disorders and assist more clinicians to become more knowledgable and skillful when working with eating disorders and disordered eating. We are also offering some support groups (now fully booked) and free therapy consultations at our offices in Glasgow city centre. We will continue to post about eating disorders this week and will be having lots of conversations with other individuals and companies to raise awareness. Let's bust some stereotypes and stamp out the stigma surrounding eating disorders this #EDAW2025 Best wishes, Talking EDs: Eating Disorders Support Service Scotland CONTACT W: www.eatingdisorderscotland.co.uk E: support@eatingdisorderscotland.co.uk        

  EATING DISORDERS AND BODY IMAGE SUPERVISION AND CONSULT GROUP We've now started a 3rd Eating Disorders and Body Image Supervision and Consult Group for professionals working with eating disorderd and body image or for professionals interested in these presentations.    If you would like to join our Thursday group or join the Mailing List for future Thursday groups, please see our event page below or email support@eatingdisorderscotland.co.uk    Best wishes, Talking EDs: Eating Disorders Support Service Scotland    Event Page:  Eating Disorders and Body Image Supervision and Consult Group Booking

FEBRUARY DEAL   We are excited to offer the NEXT TWO people who register as room users before Friday 28th February 2025 and who start using rooms this March, will receive 1/2 PRICE therapy room hire for THE NEXT 6 MONTHS (until 31st July 2025). So, that's £7 per hour instead of £14. This offer will ONLY be available to the next two people registering as a new room users with Glasgow Therapy Rooms and who start using the room in March 2025. This offer is not available to existing room users or anyone who has enquired about registering as a room user before today (12th February). If you would like more information or would like to view rooms, please either check out our website or get in touch via email (contact details below). The deal will be offered to the first 2 people registering as a room user. Get in touch today and find out how we can support your practice through room hire (and through other discounted services, such as clinical supervision, private practice mentoring and m...

  WHAT IS TRAUMA?   'Trauma is the response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms an individual’s ability to cope, causes feelings of helplessness, diminishes their sense of self and their ability to feel the full range of emotions and experiences' (Karen Onderko). Emotional and psychological trauma can result from a single event/incident or multiple events/incidents that cause a huge amount of stress in the body and that may compromise our sense of safety or security. People often think it's only the 'big things' or really 'serious' incidents that cause trauma, however, that's not true. We often experience what we call small 't's' that, if they have specific meaning/significance to us, or occur alongside an accummulation of other small 't's', can result in a traumatic experience. It's really important to dispel this myth because many people don't seek support because they think or feel that the '...