Karina is a caring and thoughtful student counsellor in her second year of the MSc in Counselling at the University of Edinburgh. Her approach is rooted in psychodynamic therapy, complemented by training in Gestalt and person-centred approaches. This means she gently explores the patterns and experiences that may be shaping your life, connecting the present with your early development in a way that feels safe and supportive. She aims to ensure you feel truly heard and understood, working together to find relief, gain deeper self-awareness, and build a sense of connection and safety. While Karina supports a range of challenges, she specialises in helping individuals navigate anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, and trauma.

Lindsay is a student psychodynamic counsellor who can help if you are feeling troubled, in despair or in conflict. She offers a safe and nurturing space to explore your problems and feelings.  Lindsay works under the assumption that what we have experienced throughout our lives influences not only who we become but also the expectations we form about future encounters. She can support you to explore your personal patterns of relating to other people and to yourself, which then helps clarify to ourselves how our inner world influences our present experiences.

Satyam is a third-year student in the Professional Doctorate in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Edinburgh, trained in both person-centred and psychodynamic approaches. His therapeutic work focuses on collaborating with clients to explore unconscious patterns and relational challenges, helping them uncover the root causes of their struggles. Through this process, Satyam supports clients in gaining new insights, transforming limiting patterns, and navigating complex emotional experiences. He believes in the transformative power of the therapeutic relationship and brings the client's external world into the therapy room, focusing on the here-and-now and observing the dynamics that emerge within the therapeutic relationship.

Tain offers a space built on warmth and softness, where you are encouraged to go at your own pace. Tain is in his qualifying year for the Diploma in Counselling at Edinburgh University. He has an interest in looking to see how the past may present in the here and now, doing this with gentle curiosity. He can offer counselling  to those who use British Sign Language, as he’s a fully qualified BSL interpreter.

Dave is a trainee counsellor in his final year of training in an integrative blend of psychodynamic and person-centred counselling. He will work collaboratively with you to help you better understand yourself and your recurring struggles in life. He offers an approach that is warm, non-judgemental and guided by a sense of curiosity about how your past and your previous relationships may be impacting your life in the present.

Iona is a trainee counsellor studying at the University of Edinburgh. She believes in co-creating a respectful and supportive environment where client and counsellor can work together. Within this structured space and relationship, Iona accompanies clients as they explore thoughts, emotions and experiences – including, perhaps, hints of experience from the distant past. Along the way we may locate interconnections that have a bearing on present circumstances and hopes. Throughout this journey, Iona remains committed to the client’s process, gently encouraging both self-compassion and self-knowledge.

Sadie is in her final year of the Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Edinburgh, integrating both person-centred and psychodynamic approaches. Her career has involved working across cultures and engaging with diverse communities, which informs her sensitivity to difference, identity, and belonging. She brings a warm, non-judgemental presence to the therapeutic space, supporting clients to explore emotional struggles, relationship patterns, and life transitions. Sadie is particularly interested in how understanding our past can unlock new ways of living with greater authenticity, choice and meaning.

Hongyu is in her final year of training in Psychodynamic and Person-Centred Counselling at the University of Edinburgh. She believes in the healing potential of an authentic and attuned therapeutic relationship. With a particular interest in how early relational experiences and cultural narratives shape one’s sense of self and trust, Hongyu offers a reflective and non-judgmental space for clients to explore emotions, uncertainties, and self-doubt. Her approach integrates depth, curiosity, and compassion to support clients in reconnecting with their inner voice and agency.

Anjali is a trainee therapist studying Counselling at the University of Edinburgh. They currently train in both psychodynamic and person-centered therapy, bringing an awareness of both approaches into their work with clients. Anjali meets each individual with curiosity and warmth, offering a safe and inclusive space for clients to explore past or ongoing life experiences which feel important. She believes that exploring unconscious processes and relational patterns can be valuable for building self-awareness and feeling better equipped to handle life’s challenges, which she encourages clients to do at their own pace. Anjali holds values of cultural sensitivity and social awareness at the core of their work and aims to provide an accessible therapeutic space for anyone who wishes to gain deeper access to their inner world.

Tanishka is in the third year of the Professional Doctorate in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Edinburgh. Trained in both person-centred and psychodynamic approaches, her practice is grounded in a relational psychodynamic framework that explores how early relational patterns continue to shape our present experiences and unconscious processes. She offers a warm, non-judgmental, and collaborative space where clients can explore their thoughts, emotions, and histories with curiosity and compassion. Attentive to the interplay between the personal and the social, she works from a psychosocial perspective, considering how the outer world influences our inner lives and supports clients in making meaning on their own terms. Her approach is rooted in empathy, openness, and the belief that transformation emerges through genuine connection and understanding.

Alexis is a trainee counsellor in his final year of a Masters at the University of Edinburgh, training in the dialogue between psychodynamic and person-centred approaches. Alexis provides a therapeutic space that is about welcoming individuals to explore personal issues as they are informed by the past, and to search for meaning and transformation in the process. An interest in relational dynamics, patterns of behaviour, and personal and social narratives all form part of his approach, grounded in core principles of inclusivity and non-judgment.

Niyamat is a third-year doctoral trainee in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Edinburgh, trained in psychodynamic and person-centred approaches. Her work is grounded in a thoughtful, relational way of working, with attention to how your experiences, relationships, and inner world shape how life feels now.

She offers a welcoming, non-judgemental space where you can bring what feels difficult, confusing, or unfinished, and take time to make sense of it together. She works at your pace, with care and curiosity. She welcomes people from all backgrounds and experiences, and is attentive to the cultural, social, and personal contexts that shape each person’s life.

Yuanfei is a trainee therapist studying Counselling at the University of Edinburgh. She offers a safe, open, and containing space where clients are invited to turn toward their inner world and explore it at their own pace. Her work is guided by an attentiveness to how present difficulties often carry echoes of earlier relational and developmental experiences. Yuanfei approaches emotions not as problems to be solved, but as meaningful expressions of lived experience, and believes that staying with them can gradually bring clarity and self-understanding. She is also attuned to existential questions of freedom and choice, meaning, loss, isolation, and mortality. She holds space for experiences that resist easy language, welcoming felt, symbolic, and imaginative expressions as they unfold within the therapeutic relationship.

Ryan is a psychodynamic trainee at the Garnethill Centre in Glasgow. He purposefully makes space for feelings and emotions, including the more challenging ones, accepting that they are all part of our human experience. Ryan believes that "shame dies when stories are told in safe spaces" (Ann Voskamp) and intends to facilitate one that works for you. His career has involved working with gender and sexuality, as well as exploring life transitions.

Rhea offers a warm, unhurried space where you can slow down and listen to all parts of yourself, especially those that might be feeling stuck, hurt or silenced, with kindness and gentle curiosity. She is in the final year of training in person-centered and psychodynamic counselling at the University of Edinburgh. These approaches shape her attentiveness to how our childhood experiences, cultural narratives and wider political contexts quietly influence how we relate to ourselves and others.

Somya is in their final year of the Master of Counselling Programme at the University of Edinburgh. Their training is grounded in person-centred and psychodynamic approaches. Their work is informed by the belief that our present experiences are always in conversation with our past, shaping the stories we come to tell about ourselves and others. They believe that the wider social, political and personal contexts influence clients’ experiences and the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship. They aim to offer a collaborative, client-led space, where what arises is allowed to unfold at its own pace. They work relationally, with an emphasis on witnessing together the tender and unseen parts of ourselves. Somya welcomes space for experiences that sit quietly beneath the surface but deserve thoughtful attention: meaning-making, grief, loneliness, friendship and creative freedom.

Anahita is a trainee counsellor, in her final year of Masters at the University of Edinburgh, integrating the psychodynamic and person-centred approaches to counselling. She offers a warm and non-judgemental presence to explore what brings you to counselling. She values walking alongside you, exploring concerns with gentle curiosity. She believes that present experiences and challenges bare links to experiences in our early lives. She focuses equally on the therapeutic relationship and attends to the dynamics in here and now. Her work values the influence of not just intrapersonal and interpersonal dynamics, but also the wider social, cultural, and political contexts on you and the relationship we will share.