Find Balance and Healing Through Compassionate Counselling
Therapeutic Services Offered in Doune & Stirling
Explore a range of counselling services tailored to support your emotional well-being and personal growth.
Traditional Therapy
Healing through Talking
Personalised support that helps you address personal challenges such as grief, relationship difficulties, anxiety, work stress and low self-esteem, fostering a path towards healing through increased self-awareness.
Outdoor Therapy
Healing through Nature
Outdoor therapy supports positive mental health through interacting with nature as we walk and talk. The outdoors provides a spacious, calming environment that helps people open up, alleviating anxiety and depression.
Employee Assistance
Supporting Workforce Wellbeing
Confidential counselling and resources to help employees address personal and work-related issues, promoting a healthy work-life balance, well-being, and productivity.
Outdoor Therapy
Nature often inspires us to express ourselves through vivid metaphors. Clients frequently describe sensations of being exposed or uprooted, capturing the essence of their internal experiences. This process helps articulate our feelings and fosters understanding and healing, allowing us to fully process and gently file painful experiences away into the past. Many clients share that through this process, they experience a more profound sense of calm, connectedness, and gratitude, often finding relief from anxiety and overwhelming feelings.
About Michèle
Life can be challenging, especially when it comes to relationships. You might feel lost, unfulfilled, or overwhelmed by your thoughts and feelings, whether due to unexpected events or ongoing stress. This can lead to exhaustion and make daily life harder to manage.
As your counsellor, I provide a safe and supportive space for you to share what’s on your mind and what you’re going through; I want you to feel less alone with your worries.
I focus on helping you identify negative patterns in your thinking, feeling, and behaviour that might be keeping you stuck or stressed. Understanding where these patterns come from can help you gain self-awareness and reconnect with your true self. This can lead to personal growth, better relationships, and an improved quality of life.
Being active and spending time in nature can help heal our minds and bodies and I offer the option to work in the outdoors, as well as traditionally. Many clients say they feel calmer, less lonely, and more grateful during these sessions.
Taking the first step to get help can feel difficult so I promise to respond gently and kindly. We can start with a 30-minute phone call to help you feel comfortable before deciding to work together.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Human Relations and Counselling from Robert Gordon University and Human Development Scotland.
I am experienced in supporting individuals grappling with anxiety and depressive symptoms as a result of what they have lived through. This can include bereavement, marriage breakdown, family issues, work-related stress, and all periods of transition—such as moving from school to university, becoming a parent, adapting to an empty nest, retirement, loss of identity/ purpose or going through menopause. I also offer my support to individuals facing a sense of abandonment, fear, isolation, loneliness, and rejection, ensuring they feel understood and cared for. I am passionate about the outdoors and enjoy working therapeutically with clients in our natural environment.
Alongside my private practice, I am a Support Worker for a third-sector charity supporting victims and survivors of domestic abuse. I also have extensive experience in supporting bereaved parents and belong to the bereavement counselling team at Strathcarron Hospice.
What Our Clients Say
I cannot commend Michele highly enough
“My situation is complex and multilayered, and having tried other sources of support, I am glad I found someone I can open up to easily and finally trust and relate to in Michele. I cannot commend Michele highly enough.” – JA
Michèle’s structured and compassionate approach
I started working with Michèle following a mixture of significant personal and work-related stress. I had gone through a series of traumatic life events without ever having been able to properly process them. Michèle’s structured and compassionate approach, and the possibility of outdoor therapy, allowed me to become well again. I am extremely grateful to Michèle for her help.” – TW (Outdoor Therapy)
Michele is compassionate and calming
“Michele is compassionate and calming, which helped me immediately feel at ease. She offered insight and constructive methods of dealing with the issues I was going through, which have helped me immensely going forward.” – GK
Your counselling was so soothing
“You are a very warm, lovely person, and I could talk about my husband freely with you. Your counselling was so soothing and has helped me a great deal.” – MP
Get In Touch
Please contact me for a free no obligation discovery call to see how I may be able to help you. Simply complete the form below and I will contact you to arrange a call.
Conatct
Telephone: 07474 840283
Email: michelegibbonscounselling@outlook.com