Margaret Wilde

I currently offer online sessions only

I work flexibly and am able to offer early morning sessions, and some evening sessions. I am usually able to accommodate your needs on timing of sessions and would welcome a discussion on what would be the best time of day for you.

Hello, my name Margaret, I am a qualified, experienced counsellor who has experience working with a wide variety of people who have many different reasons for seeking help. Before I qualified as a Therapeutic Counsellor I worked in the helping professions in the areas of mental health and learning disability for fifteen years. Since qualifying, five years ago, my main focus and experience has been in trauma recovery. I have a passion for helping people grow to where they want to be.

What I offer. I offer an open and safe space where you can be heard without judgement. I offer an invitation to talk through your emotions, relationships, patterns of behaviour, beliefs and their origins. This can help you discover new ways of experiencing that can move you towards the life you wish for yourself. My aim is to facilitate the process by listening deeply to try to truly understand and feed back to you so that you can see things from a different perspective, and get to know how they affect your life. By talking through and understanding yourself, learning why you may react in ways that are holding you back, you can begin to build a more positive relationship with yourself and live your life the way you would like to.

How I work. I work from the perspective that you are the only one who truly knows you. I am guided by you and your preferences for the way we work together, whether you feel more suited to having space to explore yourself, guided exploration of your past and inner self or more interactive strategies to work with. Together, we can work towards the person you want to be through understanding, increasing self-awareness, building self-esteem, finding more helpful patterns and developing your relationship with yourself. 

I am currently offering online counselling only. 

I have undertaken specific training to practice counselling online with an Advanced Certificate in Online Counselling. I holde a Level 2 Professional Membership of ACTO (Association for Counselling and Therapy Online). 

Our sessions will have a pluralistic focus which means we will work in collaboration with each other, where your input into what works for you balanced with my training and experience of what may be helpful and safe will determine the pace, input and nature of the therapy.

It is important for us both to feel that we are able to build a good enough relationship for therapy to be effective. This first session is a chance to check that out.

It will give you the opportunity to get a feel for how I work, and for me to hear something about your personal history and aims and expectations for therapy, giving me an idea of whether I am able to help or whether online working is suitable for your particular situation.

In this session we will go over the working contract which will give you an idea of the boundaries and framework for the therapy. 

Should you decide you would like to continue we will be able to book mutually suitable appointments of one hour, we will both then agree and sign the contract. 

Your first appointment will be a no obligation, free, assessment session.