Welcome to Counselling and Psychotherapy in Edinburgh
I provide a professional, confidential service to help you to understand issues that are interfering with your life. Working together we decide what changes need to be made and agree the way forward. We learn about your early decisions, and how they are related to your current feelings. We identify recurring patterns of behaviour that are out of context and unhelpful. It is my job to provide you with tools and information to change self-sabotaging behaviour and make the changes you want.
Good mental health is just as important as physical health. One supports the other. Both need good care and attention, and a regular stock-take is invaluable. Too often people under-value their mental health and say things like, “I can’t believe I’ve allowed myself to get into this state again!”, or “I should be able to deal with this myself.” They are not be giving themselves the care and self-regard they deserve.
Counselling in Edinburgh
As with physical problems, it is important to recognise the conditions underlying the symptoms. Our individual circumstances are all different. In counselling I tailor therapy accordingly, choosing methods appropriate to your needs. As we work together, you will realise why you feel and react the way you do. You will understand your patterns of behaviour. You can then decide what choices you have and how to do to put them into action. This is one of the first steps toward positive and lasting change.
“Annie has been instrumental in my recovery process. She provides a service that is supportive, gentle, scrupulously professional and effective. Each weekly session with Annie has brought insights which have strengthened and empowered me. I am in charge of my life again.”
Whether your problem is anxiety or depression, an eating disorder, compulsive behaviour or loss and grief, therapy can help you prepare for a more positive future. If you are dealing with a difficult relationships at home or at work, relationship counselling can help you recognise your underlying needs and familiar end results.
What Are the Benefits of Counselling
- You will learn about the factors that contribute to making you, you
- You will learn about how you interact with others, and how this affects relationships
- You discover that you can change negative or destructive patterns
- You will find you can do less of what you don’t like and more of what you do
- You will acquire tools to further progress outside and beyond therapy
The sooner a problem is dealt with, the sooner you can live the life you want to live and be the person you want to be.
Annie Hay Counselling and Psychotherapy is accessible and affordable, and helps you to move on as quickly as is reasonable, constructive and healthy to do so.
Safe hands: Counselling in Edinburgh 
I will ensure that your therapy does not drag on endlessly without reason. Many clients see emotional improvements occurring quite quickly. Severe or complex issues may require more time and work but my goal is to help you get to a stage where you feel better as quickly as possible.
Professionally qualified in psychotherapy and counselling, I have extensive clinical experience and am bound by my professional organisations’ standards and Code of Ethics.
Client Testimonial
“The emphasis on feelings over thinking alerted me to the danger of habit forming negative thoughts which had been doing me no good. It was a revelation to understand that the origin of a lot of my negative self image came from a point of infancy I could not remember. This allowed me to more accurately realise what I really needed to be at peace with myself and my friends and family. Going that far back through Transactional Analysis healed a lot of the damage that had been done to me as a child that I realised I was not responsible for.”
Individual Counselling and Psychotherapy
Relationship Counselling
Couples Counselling
Conveniently located in central Edinburgh
For an appointment with Annie Hay, Counselling and Psychotherapy in Edinburgh, call 07779 149583 or fill in the contact form. (24 hr messaging service)