Scribblings of a Psychotherapist

Attention all therapists and counsellors working in Glasgow!   We offer therapy and consulting room hire in Glasgow city centre (discount for your first 3 months).   But did you know we all offer a range of other services to psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists and other mental health professionals including clinical supervision, supervision groups, networking clubs, discounted therapy and dietitian services, private practice coaching and mentoring and more.   Get in touch today to find out more!   Best wishes,    Glasgow Therapy Rooms     CONTACT W: www.glasgowtherapyrooms.co.uk E: contact@glasgowtherapyrooms.co.uk      

  ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION COUNSELLING AND THERAPY    We've got some in-person (Glasgow) and online (UK-wide) therapy and counselling appointments available with our anxiety and depression therapists Jackie and Sue. Get in touch for more information or to book an appointment.   Take that first step towards improving your life now.    Best wishes, Glasgow Anxiety and Depression Counselling Service (GADS) and Scotland Anxiety and Depression Counselling Service (SADS)     CONTACT W: www.glasgowanxietydepression.co.uk E: support@glasgowanxietydepression.co.uk    

  DIETITIAN AND NUTRITION SERVICES   Looking to improve your relationship with eating? Perhaps you need some meal support or help with a more balanced approach to food choices and eating? Or perhaps you have a food intolerance or medical condition that would be better managed through nutrition.   Whatever the case may be, our dietitian and nutritional therapist, Jenny, is here to support you. She offers one-off consultations, regular appointments (e.g. weekly/fortnightly/monthly) and ad-hoc appointments. Our highly qualified and experienced dietitian offers a range of services to those with, and without, eating disorders/disordered eating. Online appointments available across the UK.   See the poster below and get in touch if you would like more information, have any questions or would like to book an appointment.   We als welcome co-working with other eating disorder therapists who require a dietetic service or whose clients require dietetic input alongside the...

  Clinical Supervision and Support De-Briefing for Individual Therapists and Other Organisations     Did you know?    We also provide clinical supervision to other psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, dietitians, other mental health professionals and to non-therapists, such as support staff and support organisisations who require clinical supervision, de-briefing and staff support?   So, whether you are an individual practitioner looking for a new or additional clinical supervisor or an organistion looking for some support supervision or de-briefing sessions for your staff, get in touch to find out how we can support you. More information here: https://glasgowtherapyrooms.co.uk/servicesfortherapistsandcounsellors   Best wishes, Glasgow Therapy Rooms   CONTACT W: www.glasgowtherapyrooms.co.uk E: support@glasgowtherapyrooms.co.uk    

Learning more about my relationship with food     ''Learning more about my relationship with food in therapy and where that came from not only helped me to see it wasn't my fault I had an eating disorder: it motivated me to do something about it and my therapist really supported me to make those changes'' (Previous Client) . We are here to support you to make the changes you want and need in your life, regardless of what form the eating disorder takes, your weight, how much you eat/don't eating, how you feel, what age you are and hoe long you have been struggling. If life is difficult and you want some support to improve that, our skilled, encouraging and professional therapists and dietitians are here to work with you and your personal and individual needs, concerns and preferences.    We offer in-person appointments in Glasgow city centre and online appointments to anyone in the UK - we're not restricted to working with people in Scotland only.    Get in ...

No, really, I'm fine! How often do we ask someone, whether it's a friend, family member, colleague, neighbour (or anyone else), 'how are you?' and they answer, 'I'm fine'? All the time, yes?   How often do people ask you, 'how are you?' and you answer, 'I'm fine'? All the time, I'm betting. It's that stock phrase we pull out and give everytime someone asks how we are doing. We often don't even think about saying it, its so automatic. Yet, often we are not fine. And often the person we are asking after isn't fine either.   In fact, I am betting many people answer 'I'm fine' and, underneath, they are really struggling, hurting, in pain, worrying about something in their life and being faced with terrible news or a distressing situation. But, we will never know this until we starting letting others in and starting reaching out a bit more. Why are we so afraid of how we feel? Why are we so anxious about sharing our...

  Psychotherapist/CBT Therapist/Counsellor: Child and/or Adult Eating Disorders (over 16s) (all modalities welcome to apply)  We also welcome applications from specialist eating disorder therapists who can also work with under 16s as we have demand for this. So, if you can work with children and adults, please also apply. Please STATE IF YOU ARE APPLYING for OVER 16s ONLY or CHILDREN AND ADULTS. CLOSING DATE: MONDAY 2nd June 2025, 5PM INTERVIEWS: W/B 9th June 2025 START DATE: BY END OF June 2025 (following induction training and clinic viewing/induction) You will see clients at our offices in Glasgow city centre. This is NOT an online role so please do not apply if you cannot work with clients at our clinic in Glasgow city centre.This role is NOT SUITABLE for international candidates. Please contact email us on support@eatingdisorderscotland.co.uk for a Role Description and Application Form. We do not accept CVs.   ROLE DESCRIPTION Talking EDs: Eating Disorders Suppo...

We're looking forward for our Staff Day Out on Saturday. The team work really hard to offer high quality psychotherapy, counselling and dietetic services to many people across Scotland and the UK and we look forward to offering these services, and more, in the years to come. It's time for the team to have a day off though and practice some of their own self-care. Big thanks to all the team!     

Let's be honest....who couldn't do with reducing their stress levels and improving anxiety? Life is so busy and stressful these days - too many demands and not enough time to meet those demands. And what about self-care and time for oneself? Nah....you can forget that, can't you?   Well, actually, you don't need to forget about that. IT IS POSSIBLE to manage stress more effectively, improve anxiety AND make time for yourself and the things that make you feel relaxed and healthier. AND... we can support you with this too! Bonus!!   So, if you want to work towards being 'stress-less' then you've come to the right place. Start reducing stress and anxiety today and work towards making some time for you. All our therapists and dietitians are friendly. supportive, encouraging and highly qualified.   What have you got to lose?   Only your stress.   Get in touch today. Our contact details are below.    Best wishes,    Glasgow Anxiety and Depression C...

  Ever wondered if you have a helpful or difficult relationship with food and eating? If you have, you're welcome to take our online eating test for FREE. It's ANONYMOUS. There is, however, the option to leave your email address at the end of the test if you want some support or more information about what support is on offer to you with us. If you don't want extra info about the support on offer, leave it blank. You can always get in touch with us at a later date.    You can do the SELF-TEST here:  https://eatingdisorderscotland.co.uk/eating-questionnaire.html     All the best, The Team at Talking EDs: Eating Disorders Support Service Scotland      

  SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF DEPRESSION AND LOW MOOD Everyone's experience of low mood and depression is different, however, the poster below can help us to spot some of the signs of symptoms of depression in either ourselves or others. Depression can also exist alongside many other concerns including anxiety; stress; trauma; relationships troubles; work issues; loneliness; body image; eating disorders; difficult feelings and emotions; bothersome habits and behaviours; past memories; bullying; money problems; not feeling good about ourselves; and much more.    If you are looking to talk to someone about feeling depression, sadness, anxiety, grief, bereavement, low mood, difficult thoguhts and emotions or anything else, please feel free to get in contact and we can put you in touch with one of our experienced, warm and understanding therapists, counsellors and dietitians. Online and in-person appointments available.   In the meantime, take care and do something kind and co...

EATING DISORDERS, MENOPAUSE AND BODY IMAGE   We are increasingly seeing more women going through peri-menopause and menopause who are experiencing either a new eating disorder, worsening of eating disorder symptoms or a reactivation of past eating disorder symptoms. We're also finding that many of these women are experiencing an increase in body image concerns.    We want you to know that you are NOT ALONE and we are here to support you through this transitional, and often difficult, time of your life.    Feel free to get in touch today to find out how we can support you through psychotherapy, counselling and dietitian/nutritional support.    If peri/menopause of having a big impact on your eating and or body image, take that step today and get some support from our friendly, supportive and encouraging team of therapists and dietitians.   Get in touch, confidentially, via our website or email address address below.    Speak soon!   ...

  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 '...

EATING DISORDERS AWARENESS WEEK 2025 #EDAW Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2025 is fast approaching and we have a few events planned already. We hope to add to these too by re-launching our support group in Glasgow (which we started in 2009) and hopefully launching a new one in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute too. We hope to do some other things to mark the week too. We have already set up two events to mark #EDAW25 so far (see below). We'll update you once we have decided on what else we are doing. 1. Conversation Cafe: Working with Eating Disorders: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conversation-cafe-working-with-eating-disorders-tickets-1221038161009?aff=oddtdtcreator&utm-source=cp&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing 2. Understanding Eating Disorders: Basics and Beyond: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-eating-disorders-1-basics-and-beyond-tickets-1217815893119?aff=oddtdtcreator In the meantime, if you...