Ailie Scott Dickins

I offer counselling and psychotherapy on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.  I also offer some evening appointments.

Hello, I’m Ailie: a qualified therapist offering counselling and psychotherapy in the North West of Edinburgh in person, via telephone and online. I offer walk and talk therapy-using nature to support the therapeutic process and use Cramond Foreshore and the Lauriston Castle grounds for this purpose.

To me counselling and psychotherapy are an incredibly powerful way to find self acceptance and deeply explore a sense of self. I believe that talking therapy has the potential to benefit everyone no matter where they are at in life and I have personally found counselling and psychotherapy to be life changing. I know how huge it can feel when making your initial decision to make a change.

I have experience in working with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and childhood trauma. Through working with me we can explore your emotional landscape and find ways to bring in more joy into the every day and the here and now.

I am curious to discover more about your internal world and processes. Through building a trusting relationship we can together seek to understand and explore your thoughts, feelings and behaviours-subconscious and conscious.

Through this deeper understanding it is possible to decide whether these thoughts, feelings and behaviours are still serving you well. Or whether new directions and ways of being would be more joyful and freeing.

I will not offer advice or solutions but will guide you towards gaining more clarity within your internal world, to support you to make the changes you want to make.

Transactional Analysis talks about the concept of script. That we all have a narrative and way of being which we have learned from a very young age. Together we can discover your personal narrative and understand how it serves you in the here and now.

I offer a 15 minute introductory call for those who want more information and to see if we are a good fit-the therapeutic relationship is an important element of the process.  

I then have clients complete an initial intake form before the first session to understand client expectations and hopes around the therapeutic process.  In the first session we then discuss key areas and themes which the client wants to cover in their therapy.