Marie Ashwood

My name is Marie Ashwood. I live in Perth, Scotland. I work with adults and young people, in person and on Zoom, providing short and longer term counselling and psychotherapy, to support growth and help them to resolve the issues that are impacting their lives. I have been working in mental health settings for many years, and in private practice for more than ten years. I qualified as a counsellor and psychotherapist in Transactional Analysis, and have also trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), and my work is IFS-informed (Internal Family Systems). I may integrate these according to what feels most helpful to you.

​Transactional Analysis looks at the dynamics between people, and how our early experiences of key relationships have shaped how we see ourselves and relate in our adult lives. If you have heard of the Drama Triangle, that's a TA way of understanding! EMDR and IFS are both extremely useful in treating traumatic experiences more quickly than simple talking therapy. EMDR helps the emotions and the body to release the powerful feelings left behind by traumatic events. IFS allows us to get in touch with the survival strategies that traumatic events trigger, which are experienced as the symptoms of trauma, for instance, being hypervigilant or highly anxious. I am a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP) and a member of the EMDR Association.