Hello, I’m Maj-Britt — pronounced “My-Britt”, a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist from Australia, now living in beautiful Scotland.

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I have my own private practice based in Paisley, Renfrewshire, where I work with people both in person and online. Working online also means I’m able to work with people from across the UK and other parts of the world.

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I also work in the community through Recovery Across Mental Health, and previously worked as a therapist for Chris’s House, supporting people affected by suicide.

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But the path that brought me into therapy started long before I became a therapist.

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For over a decade, alongside training and other work, I worked in the charity sector in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, India and Scotland as a community counsellor, educator and mentor.

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During those years I became close to people from all walks of life and from many different cultures. We worked together, lived alongside one another in residential programmes, shared pressures, ordinary life and did a lot of growing.

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I became deeply interested in the people I was meeting and in the things that seemed to affect us no matter where we came from.

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People could have completely different backgrounds, beliefs, cultures and life experiences, and yet still struggle with many of the same things — what had happened to them, what they believed about themselves, relationships, loss, fear, shame, belonging, meaning, and how to live well.

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As relationships grew, people began to open up and talk about things from the past that were still affecting them, sometimes tormenting them, in the present.

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It was the search for a way to understand that better, and to find ways of helping — and perhaps to understand and help myself too — that eventually led me down the path I am now on.

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I started by learning more about coaching, leadership and mentoring, both for life in general and in the workplace. The more I learned, the more I became interested in the impact of trauma and painful experiences, which led me to train in Havening Techniques® in 2017.

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From there I went on to complete the COSCA Counselling Certificate and a Diploma in Counselling, Group Work and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

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What has stayed with me through all of it is a keen interest in what helps us, as human beings, to live well.

That interest has taken me into all sorts of areas — psychotherapy, philosophy, theology, positive psychology, understanding suffering, relationships, leadership, creativity and even entertainment.

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I’m also interested in the place faith can have in our lives — and what happens when faith changes, when we lose touch with it, or it stops making sense in the way it once did.

 

Professionally, I’m a Registered Member of the BACP and a Certified Havening Techniques® Practitioner. A significant part of my work has been with people who have lived through traumatic or deeply painful experiences.

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When I’m not working, I’m Mum to four teenagers, play cornet in a brass band and have been known to salsa dance.

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Something my clients, and many of the people I’ve met along the way, have taught me is that even in the midst of suffering, there is still love, hope and beauty if you have eyes to see it.

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Wishing you all the best in life and love,

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 Maj-Britt

 

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

Maria Robinson

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Qualifications & professional registration

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Qualifications & professional registration

MBACP — Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Certified Havening Techniques® Practitioner

Diploma in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Counselling and Group Work (Honours)

COSCA Counselling Certificate — SCQF Level 8

ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring

UofN qualifications in Community Counselling and Leadership

Advanced SOZO Practitioner​​

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