Hi, I’m Joey. I’m a neurodivergent, queer, and gender-diverse psychotherapist with a wealth of experience working in a variety of settings. At present, I offer therapy online. I work as an integrative psychotherapist, drawing mainly on psychodynamic and person-centred approaches. My practice is trauma-informed and experiential, and I often bring in somatic or creative methods where they feel helpful. I value the uniqueness of each person I work with and tailor therapy to meet your individual needs and preferences. My therapeutic style is grounded in attunement and creativity, offering you a space that is supportive, flexible, and truly your own.

Currently unable to accept new clients. I am a queer psychotherapist specialising in gender, sexuality, and relationship diversity. I work with adults and older adolescents who are LGBTQIA+/gender non-conforming, or questioning their identities. I also specialise in trauma recovery, and treating healthcare professionals. I work from multiple affirming perspectives, including Health at Every Size, neurodivergence affirming, disability affirming, and fat-positive perspectives. My therapeutic approach is trauma-sensitive, empowering, attentive to culture, informed by historically marginalised communities, and includes evidence-based approaches. I offer Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) for treating trauma, including childhood, sexual, relationship, and discrimination based traumas.

As a Chartered Psychologist and HCPC Registered Counselling Psychologist (PYL18238), I specialise in talking therapies, the therapeutic relationship and understanding psychological distress in non-pathologising ways, taking into account the social and cultural contexts of each person. We can meet online or in person, in Leith, Edinburgh or Dalkeith. **Please note I am growing my practice from December 2025, so will have availability for new clients**

Psychodynamically trained queer and geeky art psychotherapist based in Meadowbank area in Edinburgh, Scotland. Offering online or in-person sessions. Working with neurodiverse young people and adults, who are experiencing difficulties processing, regulating and managing their emotions, thoughts and feelings. Through the use of art making, cosplay, and utilising elements of digital play and play therapy such as, TTRPG’s, RPG’s, boardgames, and therapeutic videogaming. 

I am Dr Karen Matthews, the founder of Eir Counselling (pronounced Air). I am a qualified psychodynamic counsellor who can work with you to uncover deep connections to past life experiences which may be influencing your current struggles. Whether you are living with anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship issues, problems with your sexuality, grief or bullying we can work together towards increased self awareness, healing and lasting change.

At the heart of my counselling and psychotherapy practice is a commitment to holding a supportive and transformative space which helps you go beyond simply coping, towards thriving and liberation. I offer a collaborative and mutual approach which meets you where you are, and centers your empowerment, needs, and desires instead of imposing expertise or pathology. I believe therapy can serve as a profoundly powerful space where we can explore, unravel, and change our relationship to what keeps us ‘stuck’, so that we might move into more free ways of living. To this end, I draw on an integrative blend

At the heart of my counselling and psychotherapy practice is a commitment to holding a supportive and transformative space which helps you go beyond simply coping, towards thriving and liberation. I offer a collaborative and mutual approach which meets you where you are, and centers your empowerment, needs, and desires instead of imposing expertise or pathology. I believe therapy can serve as a profoundly powerful space where we can explore, unravel, and change our relationship to what keeps us ‘stuck’, so that we might move into more free ways of living. To this end, I draw on an integrative blend

At the heart of my counselling and psychotherapy practice is a commitment to holding a supportive and transformative space which helps you go beyond simply coping, towards thriving and liberation. I offer a collaborative and mutual approach which meets you where you are, and centers your empowerment, needs, and desires instead of imposing expertise or pathology. I believe therapy can serve as a profoundly powerful space where we can explore, unravel, and change our relationship to what keeps us ‘stuck’, so that we might move into more free ways of living. To this end, I draw on an integrative blend