Counselling in Central London | Counsellor in Hackney E8

Cailin Edwards

Cailin Therapy

LGBTQIA+ GSRD & GENDER THERAPIST.HACKNEY. E8

“I find I am more effective when I can listen Acceptantly to myself, and can be myself”

Carl Rogers

+44 7850 866131

cailintherapy@gmail.com

Camino ‘Primitivo’ Cailin

Welcome

LGBTQIA+ and Gender Therapist in Hackney, E8 1BS.

Psychotherapist offering inclusive, LGBTQIA+ & GSRD affirmative therapy in E8.Hackney Central.London and online throughout the world.

I'm a BACP Registered Person-Centred

I have extensive experience working with:

Womyn, LGBTQIA+, gender-questioning, diverse clients, trauma, PTSD, complex trauma, relationship difficulties, coercive relationships, family trauma, bereavement, anxiety, depression, identity, self-esteem and life transitions.

Whatever brings you to therapy, you will be met with empathy, authenticity, acceptance and respect.

You've already taken a courageous first step by finding my website, and I honour that. Whether this is your first experience of therapy or you have worked with a therapist before, I offer a warm, safe, confidential, non-judgemental and non-directive and trusting space where you can explore whatever is important to you. Together, we will work at your pace, allowing your thoughts, feelings and experiences to unfold naturally. I will be present and in contact with you as you align with the choices that feel right for you.

I offer a free 10-minute introductory telephone conversation. This gives us an opportunity to meet and discuss what has brought you to therapy, and consider whether we can work together.

Kindly contact me to arrange.

Some of the areas I have worked with clients:

LGBTQIA

GSRD

Gender Identity

Queerness

Relationships

Coercive relationships

Family trauma

Sexual trauma

Asylum trauma

Self-harm

Depression

Suicidal Ideation

Loss and bereavement

Addiction

Sexual abuse

Mental distress…

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Psychotherapist

Therapy in Hackney London E8 1BS

Walking Therapy

Hampstead Heath. NW3

High Barnet Green Belt EN5

Some of the areas that I have explored with clients:

Gender dysphoria
Gender diversity
Gender transitioning
GSRD
Queer relationships
How can I become myself.
Trauma
What do I want.
I am not happy with the body I was born in.
Why am I not content in my relationship?
I feel bullied at work. How can I safely assert myself.
Isolation
I feel a need to change my life, but I don’t know how or why.
I’ve always had a difficult relationship with my family and siblings.
I am an addict.
I am in a coercive relationship and not sure how to change my circumstances.

What has arisen now might have to do with past relationships and or trauma that may or relate to my current circumstances in the ‘here and now’. It might involve the way others have wished to mould us and the current trauma of feeling a need to become that person for others while denying ourselves who we feel we wish to become or that part of ourselves that we might have forgotten or existed in the past mists of time. Talking therapy may enable processing and growth to further a connection with ourselves.

While I have extensive knowledge in the psychotherapeutic practise of gender-transitioning, and body dysphoria, I make it clear that I am not a 'gender nurse'.

What to expect in Contemporary Person-Centered Counselling

We meet after an introductory session. You might not be able to verbalise what brought you to therapy in the first place.

A feeling that something in your life needs exploring. You might have a definite idea of what brought you to therapy and that you are seeking clarity.

You experience a trusting, non-judgemental, non-directive space and the beginning of a life and therapeutic journey-relationship.

My approach is active listening.

You experience being seen and heard without judgement with trust and confidentiality, you experience being able to hear yourself talk and reveal your inner feelings that you might never have been able to reveal before.

In time the relationship with yourself becomes clearer.

A clarity and balance starts to emerge.

This is a broad example of a person-centred approach and what you may experience.

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Art for Emotional Exploration

Words might not be able to express your internal feelings. The activity of painting, drawing, and expressive gestures may be a way for you to relate to your feelings, as an alternative to or alongside talking therapy. I combine my extensive training and experience as a psychotherapist and artist to offer art as an emotional and expressive tool for exploration, and not as a clinical modality. These creative approaches are accessible to everyone and require no artistic skill- just a willingness to explore through image, colour and form as part of your unique therapeutic journey.

Cailin ‘Coming out in Poona’

Walking Therapy

Cailin ‘walking therapy in the green belt, Barnet’

Walking in a confidential space can be a meditation. The rhythm of walking may work for some who find the restrictions of motionlessly sitting in a room uncomfortable. Walking and talking therapy may be another approach that is suited to exploring your feelings through movement and breathing.

I live on the edge of the Green Belt, where it is safe to walk, or in the empty spaces on Hampstead Heath and Regents Park, if that is a convenient location for you.

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Guided Meditation

Meditation is with me always

Healing and connecting with yourself can take many forms. Meditation is not necessarily a religion, rather a way of being. Breath work and the releasing of the breath is another way we release and accept, love and pain to flourish and grow. Meditation is a rhythm, like all rhythms the steadiness of breath and grounded connection may bring calm and awareness.

I offer guided meditation within the therapeutic process or as a separate session.

Please inquire for further information.

I have been practising Zen and Theravada practice as a way of being for most of my life.

About Me

photo courtesy of Krasimira Hadzhinesheva

I was raised in London and attended the Royal Academy of Arts for my postgraduate diploma in painting/drawing and Printmaking. I spent 9 months at Atelier 17 in Paris studying and editioning for S.W. Hayter. My qualifications include an Art Teaching Certificate (ATC) from London University and the Iyengar certificate to teach yoga, which I obtained after 5 years of study in the UK and with B K S Iyengar in Poona, and additional training with Kofia Busia, Angela Farmer and Victor Van Houten.

My professional career has included painting and printmaking, documentary photography, photographic arts, video installations, and filmmaking. I also served as the Course leader/lecturer at the University of Westminster in Documentary and Photojournalism in Photography.

I am a qualified Person-Centred therapist and registered with the BACP. I trained for a year at the Minster Institute in Integrative Psychotherapy and completed my master's in Person-Centred therapy at the Metanoia Institute with a ‘heuristic inquiry' research paper with a distinction.

My clinical practice has engaged me in volunteering for Childline NSPCC for two years, counselling young persons. I have spent three years as an advanced trainee volunteering with LGBTQIA at London Friend and slightly less time at ELOP counselling LGBTQIA clients, which has given me the opportunity to meaningfully engage with a community I feel incredibly passionate about and invested in.

As part of my way of being, I actively engage with the LGBTQIA+, queer peer and encounter groups and womyn feminist groups that I feel passionate about.

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Professional Organisations

I am registered as a qualified therapist with BACP and work within the BACP code of ethics and guidelines.

I am a member of the Person-Centred Association.

I am a member of the Feminist Therapy Network.

I am a member of the World Association for Person Centred & Experiential Psychotherapy & Counselling.

Papers

Metanoia Institute 40th Anniversary Lecture.

Working Therapeutically with Transgender Clients. November 2024.

Heuristic Dissertation. 2026.

Book Reviewer. BACP Psychotherapy magazine.

Therapeutic Arrangements

E-mail: cailintherapy@gmail.com

Mobile: +44 7850 866131

Individual therapy sessions:

Length: 50 minutes. Therapeutic hour.

Fees: £70-00.

Frequency weekly/fortnightly/Monthly and by arrangement.

I suggest a free 10-minute phone conversation to see if I might be suitable for you to engage in therapy with me.

By mutual arrangement an initial hour either in person or online.

Availability

Monday to Thursday.

Evenings available.

I offer a warm, welcoming, non-judgemental and confidential therapeutic relationship.

Please get in touch with me if you need further information about the therapeutic/counselling service I provide.

If you have concerns about why you may wish to attend therapy. The type of therapy I practise, and, importantly, if you feel I might be the right therapist for you.

I aim to respond within 48 hours.