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Text / WhatsApp: 07367622016​
Private Clinical Psychologist providing psychological services to the Greater Glasgow area
Anxiety Treatment
As a Private Clinical Psychologist, I specialise in providing evidence based anxiety interventions tailored to address the specific needs of each individual. My approach focuses on creating a supportive and understanding environment to help clients manage and overcome their anxiety challenges.
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Therapeutic goals often include:
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Psychoeducation - understanding the nature of anxiety, the behavioural, emotional, physical, and cognitive aspects. Understanding the anxiety within the context of self.
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Symptom reduction - developing strategies to reduce frequency and intensity of anxious thoughts and physical symptoms.
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Improve emotional regulation - develop tools to identify, tolerate, and manage anxious emotions effectively.
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Cognitive restructuring - develop skills to identify and challenge unhelpful thinking and replace with more balanced and realistic thinking.
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Exposure and desensitisation - gradually confront feared situations, thoughts, or sensations and reduce avoidance.
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Therapy draws on:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Mindfulness Based Therapies
Depression Therapy
At Allander Psychology, I offer compassionate psychological intervention to support individuals in navigating through their emotional struggles. My goal is to empower clients to develop healthy coping mechanisms and regain a sense of hope and fulfillment in their lives.
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Therapeutic goals often include:
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Symptom relief and stabilisation - reduce severity of depressive symptoms such as low mood, fatigue, hopelessness, and poor concentration.
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Emotional awareness and regulation - increase ability to identify and express emotions, build tolerance for emotional discomfort and learn healthy ways to manage negative emotions.
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Cognitive restructuring - develop skills to identify and challenge unhelpful thinking styes and address core beliefs related to our sense of worth, and develop more balanced, compassionate self-talk and thinking patterns.
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Behavioural activation - increase engagement in pleasurable and meaningful activities while breaking the cycle of avoidance.
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Strengthen interpersonal relationships - improve communication and relationship skills and address interpersonal conflicts or isolation. Build or reconnect with a supportive social network​.
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Build coping skills and resilience - develop stress management strategies such as problem solving , relaxation etc, and develop tools for navigating setbacks and emotional triggers.
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Relapse prevention and maintenance - develop skills to identify early warning signs and implementing long-term plan to manage mood and sustain recovery. Strengthen a sense of identity and purpose beyond depression.
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Therapy draws on:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT)
Behavioural Activation Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Mindfulness Based Therapies
Trauma Support
I am committed to providing evidence based interventions to individuals who have experienced distressing events. My approach integrates trauma-focused techniques to help clients process their emotions, rebuild a sense of safety, and embark on a journey towards healing and resilience. I will help you learn how to respond to symptoms and process traumatic memories.
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Therapeutic goals often include:
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​Safety and stabilisation - process where emotional and physical stabilisation is established using strategies such as grounding, mindfulness, and distress tolerance.
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Trauma processing - process involves processing memories at a tolerable pace, reducing trauma-related symptoms, reframing negative beliefs about self, and allowing space for acknowledging and to grieve losses.
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Integration and growth - journey towards reclaiming a sense of identity beyond the trauma, rebuilding self-worth, agency and empowerment, strengthening of relationships, and promoting long-term emotional resilience and staying well.
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Therapy draws on:
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT)
Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Mindfulness Based Therapies
Adjustment to diagnosis
Receiving a life changing or limiting diagnosis can be one of the most difficult experiences we face in our lives. Psychological intervention offered through Allander Psychology focusses on supporting individuals as they come to terms with significant changes in their health, identify, or future plans. Therapy provides a safe and compassionate space to process emotional reactions - such as shock, grief, anxiety, anger, or sadness - while fostering resilience and meaning-making.
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Therapeutic goals often include:
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Understanding and validating emotional responses to the diagnosis
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Developing practical coping strategies for daily life challenges and uncertainty
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Exploring identity shifts and redefining self-worth, purpose, and future outlook
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Supporting communication with loved ones and medical providers
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Promoting emotional resilience, acceptance, and psychological flexibility.
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The therapeutic approach is often integrative, drawing on models such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT) amongst other models.
Carers support
In my practice, I offer psychological intervention for those supporting a family member to live well with complex physical or neurological illness. Through a compassionate and empowering approach, I assist family carers in developing coping strategies, confidence in own abilities, and emotional well-being.
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Therapeutic goals often include:
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Improving carer wellbeing - reducing stress and anxiety and addressing any depression or low mood though enhancing self-esteem and self care.
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A 'toolkit' to manage distress in others - developing skills and strategies for supporting cared for persons' distress, whether this is adjustment to diagnosis or distressed behaviour due to neurological change.
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Building a support system - guidance on how to identify and connect with support systems, including friends, family, community groups, and other carers, with aim of reducing feelings of isolation and promoting a sense of belonging.
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Empowering carers - through validating experience and developing skills in communication with professions, and addressing potential safeguarding issues,
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Preparing for the future - managing anticipatory grief ('living grief') and allowing space to acknowledge and grieve for what should have been.
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Therapy draws on:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT)
Behavioural Activation Therapy (BA)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Mindfulness Based Therapies
Stress and Distress in Dementia (Unmet Needs Model)
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Complex grief
When someone we care about dies we go through a period of intense grief. As time passes we learn how to live in this different world that we would never have asked for, and we start to ride the waves of grief. Sometimes our heads are above the water and sometimes they're not. This is okay, this is normal. The price of loving is the need to grieve - when we lose someone our love for them doesn't stop but it has nowhere to go, so we need to learn how to contain our loss and that is what the process of grief is. Sometimes though, grief becomes complicated. There is no hard and fast reason why this is the case, but people can become consumed by their loss and need compassion and support to learn how to get their heads back up above the waves. In my practice I use evidence based approaches, delivered with compassion and understanding, to help people learn to understand and process their loss, and ultimately learn how to live again.
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Therapeutic goals often include:
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Accepting how we feel about our loss - validation of emotion is a powerful tool in this
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Emotional awareness and regulation - increase ability to identify and express our emotional responses, build tolerance for emotional discomfort and learn healthy ways to manage our sadness.
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Adjusting to life without - learning to live in a different world, developing strategies to allow us to engage in meaningful activity again.
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Maintaining a bond with the person we have lost - finding ways to remember and honour our loved ones that gives us some comfort.
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Focussing on our psychological health - identifying any other psychological difficulties we might have and develop strategies to maintain psychological health.
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Building a support system - whether this is through friends and families, community groups, or others with lived experience.
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Therapy draws on:
Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT)
Behavioural Activation Therapy (BA)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Mindfulness Based Therapies
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
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Neuropsychological assessment
A formal neuropsychological assessment is a comprehensive evaluation designed to measure cognitive, emotional, and behavioural functioning. This assessment typically includes a series of standardised tests that assess various cognitive domains, such as memory, attention, language, visual spatial abilities, and problem-solving skills. It helps identify strengths and weaknesses in cognitive performance and can provide valuable insights into the functioning of the brain. The results are often used to guide treatment plans, educational strategies, and support services for individuals facing cognitive challenges. Formal neuropsychological assessment can also be used to inform diagnosis, as part of a fuller medical investigation. If neuropsychological assessment is to be considered as part of a diagnostic assessment (for example, as part of an assessment for possible dementia) clients must also be under the care of a Psychiatrist or Neurologist for full assessment.
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Assessment involves:
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First session will involve finding out more about the difficulties experienced and pre diagnostic counselling - we will discuss the process of testing and potential outcomes before you decide to continue with the assessment. A close family member or friend is encouraged to join clients at the first session.
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Assessment is administered over 2-4 sessions and involves a number of different tasks to measure different cognitive functions.
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Feedback session to discuss the assessment and how this is interpreted, and to discuss appropriate next steps.