Trauma and PTSD therapists in Bearsden, Scotland
Find experienced trauma and PTSD therapists in Bearsden, Scotland, United Kingdom who provide testing, evidence-based treatment for trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and related challenges such as anxiety, depression, and stress. Compare detailed therapist profiles and connect with a provider that’s right for you.
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PTSD/Trauma
Kat Pachana-Pereira
Registered Psychotherapist, Integrative Therapist (CBT), Couples Therapist, EMDR Therapist
With use of compassion, EMDR and Trauma treatment techniques we will start discovering safety and change unhelpful coping styles
9 Years Experience
Online in Bearsden, Scotland
PTSD/Trauma
Samantha Coleman
Therapist, MBACP Prof Dip
Trauma can affect how you feel in your body, how safe the world seems, how you relate to other people, and how you see yourself. You may experience flashbacks, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, numbness, hypervigilance, shame, or patterns that feel hard to control or explain. My approach is trauma-informed, gentle, and grounded in helping you feel safe enough to explore things at your own pace. I am interested not only in what happened to you, but in how those experiences have shaped your inner world, your relationships, and the patterns that may still be affecting your life now.
13 Years Experience
Online in Bearsden, Scotland
PTSD/Trauma
Sara Aicart-Pendlebury
Art Therapist, Human Givens Practitioner (HG.Dip.P), Member of Human Givens Institute, IFS therapist Levels 1&2, Narm Practitioner
PHOBIAS, PANIC ATTACKS AND POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS
The brain has an emotional alarm system designed to keep us safe. When people suffer from panic attacks, phobias or post-traumatic stress, it is because the system has gone into overdrive.
What happens is this. There is a small, structure in the brain, known as the amygdala (Greek for almond, which is its shape), that has access to our emotional memories and learned responses. It evolved in the distant past and its job is to match new circumstances to what is already in the store and alert us to anything that previously represented a risk and might do so again. In the distant past, this might have been a movement or flash of colour that could have signified an approaching predator. The amygdala would then have triggered changes to help the body get ready to fight or flee the danger – pounding heart, racing pulse, quick, shallow breathing, etc.
Now imagine this. A young woman, who has had a highly stressful day, is waiting in a long supermarket queue, worrying whether she’ll be out of the shop in time to catch the bus to school to collect her little girl. It is one pressure too many. The amygdala responds as if she is under threat and she starts to feel her heart pounding strangely and her breathing quickens. She becomes terrified that she is having a heart attack and that makes the symptoms escalate – her palms sweat; her chest feels as if it is bursting and she struggles to breathe. Soon she feels overwhelmed and may collapse or run out of the shop. The amygdala, fearful that this could happen again, files away the fact that there were bright lights and lots of people queuing when the ‘threat’ occurred. Then, when the woman is queuing in the post office the next day, the bright lights and queue may be sufficient for the over-vigilant amygdala to trigger another panic attack to deal with the new ‘threat’.
Phobias start the same way – the amygdala makes associations with what was going on when a person first felt threatened, not all of which may be relevant. So, while it is understandable that someone who is attacked by a vicious dog may well develop a fear of dogs generally, it could equally be the case that someone develops a fear of broken glass because, on a previous occasion, when they had had a panic attack, there was broken glass lying near to where they collapsed. Agoraphobia develops when someone is too frightened of panic attacks even to leave the house.
In the case of post-traumatic stress, someone who was in the back seat of a car when a collision occurred may find it frightening to travel in the back seat again but there may be other, unconscious, connections with the accident too, such as the smell of petrol. So the person may experience seemingly inexplicable panic when filling up their own car with petrol.
Fortunately, human givens practitioners are taught a simple and effective way to deal with all these circumstances. If a traumatic memory is causing panic attacks, phobias or post-traumatic stress, they can use a powerful, painless visualisation procedure, known as the rewind technique, to take the emotion out of the memory and enable the memory of the event to be stored away as history, instead of as one that continues to intrude on the present. The memory remains, and always will remain, a deeply unpleasant one but no longer is it emotionally arousing. This method can work swiftly and reliably even in the most extreme of cases.
17 Years Experience
Online in Bearsden, Scotland
PTSD/Trauma
Louise Perry
Registered Psychotherapist, IFS UKCP HCCP
I work with adults affected by trauma, including post-traumatic stress and complex trauma. Traumatic experiences can continue to shape how people respond internally and in relationships, often long after the original events have passed.
My work draws on Integrative Art Psychotherapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS), offering ways to explore how trauma is held and organised internally, including protective responses that may have developed over time. Rather than assuming readiness or direction, sessions focus on understanding what is present and how different internal responses interact. We may work through conversation, creative exploration, or a combination of both, depending on what feels most manageable and useful.
8 Years Experience
Online in Bearsden, Scotland
PTSD/Trauma
Irene Valis
Counsellor/Therapist, Gestalt Psychotherapist, PACFA Certified Counsellor, Life Coach
I am a trauma-informed psychotherapist having completed training through Bessel Van der Kolk’s “The Body Keeps the Score” workshops and the Polyvagal Institute around neuroscience and trauma and healing.
I provide a safe, relational, mindbody approach to help women in the processing and integrating traumas such as childhood developmental trauma, emotional or psychological abuse, or significant events, memories or losses that linger long after the incident occurred.
I would be honoured to be your guide and connect you with the validation, support and closure that you need and deserve.
5 Years Experience
Online in Bearsden, Scotland
Trauma and PTSD therapists in Bearsden, Scotland Statistics
Trauma and PTSD therapists in Bearsden, Scotland average 14 years of experience and charge around ¤135 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Integrative Therapy (55%), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (51%), and Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (49%).
Average years in practice
14 Years Experience
Average cost per session
¤135
Accept insurance
37%
Offer sliding scale
47%
Gender ID
| 68% |
Female |
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| 28% |
Male |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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| 2% |
Non-Binary |
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Session Type
| 66% |
In Person and Online |
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| 34% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 55% | Integrative Therapy |
| 51% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 49% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 39% | Somatic Therapy |
| 31% | Behavioral Therapy |
| 31% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 30% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
Ages Served
| 99% | Adult |
| 65% | Young Adult |
| 54% | Senior |
| 53% | Teen |
| 22% | Children |
Client Focus
| 66% | Women |
| 51% | Men |
| 48% | LGBTQ+ |
| 35% | Persons with Disabilities |
| 33% | Christian |