Marnie Collin

I've been counselling for over 20 years and have experience of working with anxiety, depression, chronic illness, stress, relationship difficulties, bereavement,  trauma and abuse and end of life care. 

I have counselled in a variety of therapy services including a specialist Fife wide agency for adult survivors of sexual abuse, Cruse Bereavement Care Dundee, Couple Counselling Lothian and Couple Counselling Fife.  I've also held management roles within an HIV service, a sexual abuse counselling service, an in-care survivors’ service, and I've been a member of various Cross Party working groups and expert reference groups advising the Scottish Government on sexual abuse issues and strategy.

Within my private practice I have experience of working with neurodiversity including ADHD and autism and I'm committed to the neurodiversity affirmative movement. 

I have experience of working with young adults, particularly university students and the particular issues that they bring including transitions, loneliness and stress.

I also work with women's experiences of infertility, IVF and menopause.

I am an LGBTIQ+ affirmative counsellor and I support trans rights.

I feel that my varied background enables me to work sensitively and effectively with the wide range of experiences that individuals bring, including personal difficulties or/and a desire for deepening self awareness.

I believe deeply in the potential benefit of counselling having personally witnessed how it helps the people I support find relief from their distress and achieve personal growth.

My aim is to provide a warm, welcoming, professional and ethical service that enables people to find a sense of well-being and personal fulfillment in their life and relationships.

My website www.marniecollin.com gives more detailed information. 

I would describe myself as an integrative therapist as I use a combined approach to psychotherapy drawn from various influences and trainings.

My original Diploma combined theoretical insights from the psychodynamic and person-centred traditions and I identified as a psychodynamic practitioner on completion of that training and continue to utilise psychodynamic thinking in current practice. This means that I believe in the importance of the unconscious and past experience in shaping current behaviour. Working in this way I aim to build an accepting and trusting relationship where both of us can be actively involved in the therapy and generate a practice of gentle curiosity towards whatever is emerging. Through this an understanding of the client’s inner world and its influence over past and present can come into awareness and introduce the possibility of change.

The therapy I offer is also influenced by Gestalt psychotherapy where the primary aim is the development of awareness as a means of increasing people's choice and flexibility. I also draw on learning from the various training courses that I have attended where I believe that will benefit the client, for example mindful compassion or sensorimotor psychotherapy.  

I am happy to offer tools and resources where I believe that this will be of benefit to the client and I will often offer psycho-education to help clients understand their experiences and know that what they are feeling is often a normal response to their particular life experiences rather than evidence of badness, madness or weakness.

I am able to offer short term counselling for dealing with immediate issues (minimum of 8 sessions) or longer term psychotherapy (months or years) to work with more complex or long-standing issues. I am fully committed to providing a respectful and non-judgemental service which is offered at a pace that suits your needs.

To help make the decision whether to access counselling I offer an initial consultation session with the aim of allowing each of us to explore if my counselling approach will be of benefit or whether some other source of support may be more suitable.

This session enables you to tell me about what it is that is leading you to seek support and to ask any questions. It gives you a chance to see if working with me feels right for you.

The first session lasts for up to 50 minutes and there is no obligation to proceed further if you decide not to proceed to counselling/psychotherapy sessions.

I've been counselling for over 20 years and have experience of working with anxiety, depression, chronic illness, stress, relationship difficulties, bereavement,  trauma and abuse and end of life care. 

I have counselled in a variety of therapy services including a specialist Fife wide agency for adult survivors of sexual abuse, Cruse Bereavement Care Dundee, Couple Counselling Lothian and Couple Counselling Fife.  I've also held management roles within an HIV service, a sexual abuse counselling service, an in-care survivors’ service, and I've been a member of various Cross Party working groups and expert reference groups advising the Scottish Government on sexual abuse issues and strategy.

Within my private practice I have experience of working with neurodiversity including ADHD and autism and I'm committed to the neurodiversity affirmative movement. 

I have experience of working with young adults, particularly university students and the particular issues that they bring including transitions, loneliness and stress.

I also work with women's experiences of infertility, IVF and menopause.

I am an LGBTIQ+ affirmative counsellor and I support trans rights.

I feel that my varied background enables me to work sensitively and effectively with the wide range of experiences that individuals bring, including personal difficulties or/and a desire for deepening self awareness.

I believe deeply in the potential benefit of counselling having personally witnessed how it helps the people I support find relief from their distress and achieve personal growth.

My aim is to provide a warm, welcoming, professional and ethical service that enables people to find a sense of well-being and personal fulfillment in their life and relationships.

My website www.marniecollin.com gives more detailed information. 

I would describe myself as an integrative therapist as I use a combined approach to psychotherapy drawn from various influences and trainings.

My original Diploma combined theoretical insights from the psychodynamic and person-centred traditions and I identified as a psychodynamic practitioner on completion of that training and continue to utilise psychodynamic thinking in current practice. This means that I believe in the importance of the unconscious and past experience in shaping current behaviour. Working in this way I aim to build an accepting and trusting relationship where both of us can be actively involved in the therapy and generate a practice of gentle curiosity towards whatever is emerging. Through this an understanding of the client’s inner world and its influence over past and present can come into awareness and introduce the possibility of change.

The therapy I offer is also influenced by Gestalt psychotherapy where the primary aim is the development of awareness as a means of increasing people's choice and flexibility. I also draw on learning from the various training courses that I have attended where I believe that will benefit the client, for example mindful compassion or sensorimotor psychotherapy.  

I am happy to offer tools and resources where I believe that this will be of benefit to the client and I will often offer psycho-education to help clients understand their experiences and know that what they are feeling is often a normal response to their particular life experiences rather than evidence of badness, madness or weakness.

I am able to offer short term counselling for dealing with immediate issues (minimum of 8 sessions) or longer term psychotherapy (months or years) to work with more complex or longstanding issues. I am fully committed to providing a respectful and non-judgemental service which is offered at a pace that suits your needs.

This session enables you to tell me about what it is that is leading you to seek support and to ask any questions.  It gives you a chance to see if working with me feels right for you.

The first session lasts for up to 50 minutes and there is no obligation to proceed further if you decide not to proceed to counselling/psychotherapy sessions.