Ryan Dawes – Humanistic Therapist – BA, Mphil, PGCert, PGDip

Hello.

I started my counselling training in 2010. I have a Postgraduate Certificate in Counselling Skills and a Postgraduate Diploma in Person-Centred and Experiential Counselling and Psychotherapy with the Counselling Unit, University of Strathclyde. I have some familiarity with Process-Experiential/Emotion-Focused Therapy and some familiarity with the Focusing method (I have completed Level 1 of the British Focusing Association’s Focusing Skills course).

I have an interest in meditation and in 2014 I spent five months living in three Buddhist monasteries/temples in South Korea, Myanmar and Thailand. I now benefit from visiting a Buddhist monastery near Newcastle.

I have a therapeutic interest in the process of complex trauma arising out of routine or prolonged and repeated abuse within a relationship(s). This led me to explore my own experience of routine abuse in childhood and attend Ritual Abuse Network Scotland’s conference on organised abuse and satanic ritual abuse in the UK.

Memberships

I am a Practitioner Member of Person-Centred Therapy Scotland and a Registered Member (MBACP) of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP).

I have worked with young people and adults suffering with anxiety, depression, trauma / complex trauma, dissociation, routine or prolonged and repeated abuse within a relationship(s), ritual abuse, self-harm, suicidal impulse, relationship difficulties and people searching for meaning or change in their lives.