To contact

Clearly  Counselling

please telephone

 

Linda on

0790 499 1249

(email - lindaok@btinternet.com)

or

Kathleen on

07726836397

(email - kkerr01@talktalk.net)

About Us

At present we consist of a small team of two counsellors; Kathleen Kerr and Linda O’Kane. We endeavour to offer a service that is reasonably priced and easy to access.

 

 

 

 

Linda O'Kane

Hi, my name is Linda. In writing this I am thinking what people might want to know about me. I have found out that, for some, the counsellor having a good education and professional qualifications is important and for others it is important that the counsellor is well experienced.  Some want to know that the counsellor will be warm, friendly and understanding and will offer them a secure setting to speak of their issues. For others, the background of the counsellor is not very important but the cost and ease of access is.

 

I have counselled for the past 18 years. Most of this has been within a not-for-profit organisation in Glasgow which offered counselling, supervision and counselling training as well as offering professional development courses. I left in 2008 as the organisation was moving towards working with larger organisations rather than continuing to offer counselling. I wanted to make it clear that counselling, for me, was at the heart of the service I wanted to offer, hence the name Clearly Counselling. I have gained a wide range of experience during my work within the organisation and, over the years, I have worked with a wide range of issues.

 

My counselling training was in Humanistic/Existential perspectives which focused on the Person Centred Approach, REBT (Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy), and Gestalt. My interest in Gestalt led me to train further in this perspective.

 

I tend to use what seems to be the ‘best fit’ for the type of person before me. My main aim is to help the person come to a fuller awareness of themselves and how they do what they do and to help them discover and choose more satisfying ways of living.

 

I am trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) which is an invaluable tool at various stages when offering counselling.

 

I have also trained as a supervisor and offer supervision to a number of counsellors. Apart from the above, my interests are in personality and spirituality.

 

I frequently offer Myers Briggs Type Indicator to small groups of people and to organisations.

 

All of the above is important but I do believe that at the heart of all good counselling is a relationship that is open, honest, warm and accepting. I would like to think that I offer this to all who come. I believe we are all on a journey. It is my privilege to accompany others on part of that journey.

 

My  list of qualifications include:

 

• Honours Degree in Psychology
• Masters Degree in Counselling and Supervision
• Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Supervision
• Diploma in Child Education
• Certificate in Counselling Supervision (Cosca)
• Licensed to facilitate Myers Briggs Type Indicator

 

My research was on ‘People’s Experience of Waiting in Times of Transition.’

 

I am an accredited member of BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and a member of Cosca (The Scottish Equivalent to BACP).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kathleen Kerr

I am a professional counsellor with twenty - five years experience of providing care and counselling in the statutory sector to adults and adolescents. I come from a nursing background and went on to develop my counselling skills in 1999 whilst working with a wide range of issues both in individual work and in the context of group work. My passion and energy is derived from working with people who are experiencing crisis and difficulty in their lives with a particular emphasis on raising self-esteem and promoting empowerment.

My counselling training emerges from the humanistic tradition with my chosen approach to work being Person Centred. This focuses on the autonomy and the individual’s capacity to manage their own life effectively.

I am member of the BACP as well as a practitioner member of Cosca.

My qualifications include:-

• Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Supervision
• Post Qualifying Certificate in Counselling Children and Young People
• Certificate in Counselling Skills
• Qualification in nursing

 

I have had additional training in applied suicide intervention skills, child development, anger management, emotional literacy/esteem builders and solution focused brief therapy.