My name is Ian Fuller. I have been working as a counsellor and psychotherapist in Edinburgh since 1996. I have extensive experience in offering therapy to individuals, and in facilitating therapeutic groups. People who engage in therapy with me experience reduced levels of distress and an enhanced capacity to live their lives as a result of the work we do together.
Please look through this website to find out more about what I can offer you, and the training and other experience which informs my approach to counselling.
Please look through this website to find out more about what I can offer you, and the training and other experience which informs my approach to counselling.
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I am on the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists. The Register is the first psychological therapists' register to be accredited under a new scheme set up by the Department of Health and administered by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care, which is accountable to the UK Parliament.
Therapy is concerned with our relationship to the world, and our relationship to ourselves. I can work alongside you to help navigate a difficult patch in your life, or to seek to resolve a long-term or even life-long issue or issues. This may involve coming to terms with a painful family history, a search for meaning and direction, or exploring how to be in relationship with another and yet still be your own person.
Gestalt therapy was originally developed in the 1950s by a married couple, Doctors Frederick and Laura Perls, both of whom were psychoanalysts, and their colleagues. It has grown and developed extensively since then. Gestalt is a humanistic therapy, which means that it assumes human beings are essentially healthy and naturally tend to fulfil their needs and grow physically and psychologically.
A person who was traumatised in the past can find themselves living a constrained life in the present because of the survival patterns they developed in response to the traumatic situation or situations they lived through. Attitudes, thoughts, emotions and physical sensations, which represented creative responses to trauma at the time, can now be triggered by everyday events.
Often undertaken in a group setting, the Family Constellation approach can also provide useful insights and understanding in individual therapy. Traumatic events in the family can have a significant impact on the capacity of surviving family members to live fulfilling lives. These events can include, for example, the early death of a parent or sibling, suicide of a partner or other family member, the impact of war and others.
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