Katrina Hadland
About the Therapist
I identify as a middle aged queer woman who came out in later life due to growing up in an evangelical background. I am now married to my wife and we have an adopted son.
I work with individuals who are 16+ and have some limited spaces for couples.
I offer a warm, relaxed approach using humour and a flexible style that can allow me to work with your agenda rather than imposing my own.
I offer face to face consultations from an office in my home in Edinburgh, I work online using zoom and I offer walk and talk therapy.
- Lesbian
- Queer
BA - Edinburgh University 1995-1997
PGCE - 2000-2001
Diploma in Counselling 2003-2005 CCTS/ COSCA
Pg Diploma in Counselling 2009-2011 COSCA
MBACP
Award Awarding body Year of award BA- Religious Studies Edinburgh University 1995 Dip Couns COSCA 2005 Pg for Dip Couns COSCA 2011 BSL Level 2 CACDP 2008
I have been in Private Practice since 2010. I am psychodynamically trained. That means I look at who a client is within the context of the web of relationships and the environment they grew up in and I am interested in how the experiences of our pasts may be being projected into our now and may be biting us on the bum!
I am interested in how our bodies hold memories and useful information in the form of physical sensations like a tight chest, sweaty palms, adrenaline rushes, fight/ flight reactions that signpost us but also take us into autopilot and sometimes cause us to do things we wish we hadn’t. This is called polyvagal theory and somatic processing.
I find it useful to use aspects of Internal Family Systems therapy which helps us visualise that we often have inner conflict within our bodies with parts that hold trauma, parts that are protective of us and enable us to fragment in order to survive and other parts that seek to minimise suffering and pain through addiction and disconnecting from the body but how we need to learn to integrate all these parts to work together through the central system known as our ‘true self’ or our healthy adult/ wise mind…..whatever appeals most to you. Sometimes I use more creative/ playful techniques to help people access their own subconscious, if you feel safe enough to do so
I am able to tailor make an approach that works best for you and I also encourage you to play an active role in deciding what that should look like. Humour, safe boundaries and warm relational connection underpin everything I do.
- Attachment theory (Psychodynamic)
- Body psychotherapy
- Eclectic
- Integrative
- Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)
- Neurodivergent
- Psychodynamic
- Walk and talk therapy
- Ace | Asexual
- BDSM | Kink
- Bi- | Pansexual
- Consensual non-monogamy
- Cross-dresser
- Gay
- Intersex
- Lesbian
- Neurodivergent
- Non-binary | Genderqueer
- Queer
- Questioning
- Survivors of attempted conversion therapy
- Trans
- One to one
- Two people
- No adaptation
- Adults
- Young adults (16-24)
- Online
- In Person
My fee is £60 per hour with a limited number of concessions.
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