Highland Trauma Services

Fiona MacAulay (MacRae)

Accredited EMDR Consultant and supervisor.
Accredited CBT Therapist
Specialist in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
Compassionate Mind Training

Fiona MacAulay ( MacRae) has experience with a range of psychological therapies to help with various problems including; Anxiety, Panic, Social Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Life Event Trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Phobias, Depression, Childhood Sexual Abuse. Chronic Pain and Chronic Fatigue, Low Self-Esteem and Occupational Distress.
Fiona holds a Diploma in Clinical and Pastoral Counselling, Diploma in Mental Health Nursing with Distinction. A Degree in Health Studies and Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy. Fiona is a qualified mindfulness teacher with a special interest in Compassionate Mind Training.

Fiona has competed parts 1,2,3 &4 of Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy and is an accredited Consultant and supervisor with EMDR Europe and Ireland. She is registered with the NMC and accredited with the BABCP.

Supervision

Fiona attends regular meetings with a group of Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapists for clinical supervision and a highly experienced and internationally respected EMDR Consultant.

Psychological Services

EMDR

What is an EMDR Consultant?

An EMDR Consultant is an approved EMDR Practitioner with additional training and experience who is able to undertake the tasks of consultation or supervision of EMDR practitioners. ... Applicants need to have a minimum of three years experience as an EMDR Europe Practitioner.

Consultants - EMDR Europe

www.emdr-europe.org/info

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy ( EMDR ) is a form of psychotherapy developed by Francine Shapiro for trauma -related disorders. According to Shapiro's theory when a traumatic or distressing experience occurs, it may overwhelm usual cognitive and neurological coping mechanisms. This can result in the memory and associated stimuli of the event being inadequately processed, resulting in the memory being stored in a dysfunctional form in an isolated memory network. The goal of EMDR therapy is to process these distressing memories, reducing their ongoing influence and allowing clients to develop more adaptive coping mechanisms. Shapiro has published research data to support the benefits of the therapy and a wealth of research has been conducted which have demonstrated treatment benefit for psychological trauma. This includes child hood abuse or neglect, performance anxiety, assault, disasters, surgical trauma, birth trauma, road traffic accidents, life event depression, Occupational distressing events. http://www.emdr-europe.org

CBT

It is a way of talking about:

how you think about yourself, the world and other people
how what you do affects your thoughts, feelings and behaviour.

CBT can help you to change how you think ('Cognitive') and what you do ('Behaviour').

When does CBT help?

CBT has been shown to help with many different types of problems. These include: Anxiety, Depression,Panic, Phobias (including agoraphobia and social phobia) stress, Obsessive Compulsive, Disorder, Post Traumatic Disorder. CBT may also help if you have difficulties with anger, a low opinion of yourself or physical health problems, like pain or fatigue.

How does it work?

CBT can help you to make sense of overwhelming problems by breaking them down into smaller parts. This makes it easier to see how they are connected and how they affect you. These parts are:

A Situation - a problem, event or difficult situation

From this can follow:

Thoughts
Emotions
Physical feelings
Actions

Each of these areas can affect the others. How you think about a problem can affect how you feel physically and emotionally. It can also alter what you do about it. There are helpful and unhelpful ways of reacting to most situations, depending on how you think about them. (Royal College of Psychiatrists 2012)

Helpful Websites

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