Personal Profile
Integrative Counsellor & Psychotherapist in Surrey & Online
Welcome to Lorraine McFadyen Counselling and Psychotherapy. I'm an experienced integrative counsellor and psychotherapist based in London and Surrey and currently offering face-to-face, online and walk-and-talk sessions.
Life can feel overwhelming at times, whether it’s relationship challenges, trauma, dealing with grief or simply a sense of losing touch with yourself. Modern living rarely gives us space to pause and reflect.
Counselling offers that dedicated time to explore your experiences, understand how past events may be affecting you, and gain new perspectives that can help you move forward. Together, we’ll create a safe, supportive space where you can reflect at your own pace.
If you feel ready to explore counselling and therapy, please get in touch to arrange an introductory call.
About Me
Lorraine McFadyen Counselling & Psychotherapy
The Creative Space
Rear of 37 Station Road
Counsellor, Psychotherapist
Introduction
Welcome to Lorraine McFadyen Counselling and Psychotherapy. I'm a qualified, experienced integrative counsellor and psychotherapist based in Surrey and currently offering face-to-face, online and walk-and-talk sessions.
Life can feel overwhelming at times, whether it’s relationship challenges, trauma, dealing with grief or simply a sense of losing touch with yourself. Modern living rarely gives us space to pause and reflect.
Counselling offers that dedicated time to explore your experiences, understand how past events may be affecting you, and gain new perspectives that can help you move forward. Together, we’ll create a safe, supportive space where you can reflect at your own pace.
If you feel ready to explore counselling and therapy, please get in touch to arrange an introductory call.
Training
I am a professionally qualified Integrative Counsellor trained to use a range of therapeutic approaches tailored to meet the needs of each individual client.
- CPCAB Level 4 Diploma in Integrative Therapeutic Counselling
- CPCAB Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies
- CPCAB Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills
- Mental Health First Aid Training
- Suicide Awareness Training
- Domestic Abuse and Managing Risk training
- Working with Grief Training
Working with Trauma
My experience includes supporting individuals struggling with anxiety, low self-esteem, professional stress, relationship challenges and depression, helping them to build their emotional resilience, strengthen personal boundaries and identify unhelpful behavioural patterns.
I also have specialist experience working with women affected by domestic abuse, including those in relationships involving coercive control. I understand the profound impact of trauma and offer sensitive, trauma-informed support in these areas.
Clinical Experience
Counsellor, Sutton Women's Centre, https://suttonwomenscentre.co.uk/ (specialising in domestic abuse and coercive relationships)
Private Practice
Counsellor, Lorraine McFadyen Counselling & Psychotherapy
https://lorrainemcfadyencounselling.co.uk/
Qualifications
- CPCAB Level 4 Diploma in Integrative Therapeutic Counselling
- CPCAB Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies
- CPCAB Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills
- Mental Health First Aid Training
- Suicide Awareness Training
- Domestic Abuse and Managing Risk training
- Working with Grief Training
- Working with Trauma
Experience
Grief is not only the loss of a person. Sometimes it is the loss of the life you knew and everything that came with it. Grief does not simply leave us, but with the right support we can learn to build a meaningful life around it.
I understand this from personal experience, following a significant loss of my own, I recognised that grief was overwhelming me and sought the support of a qualified counsellor. Working with a skilled therapist in a safe, trusting space helped to transform my life during a difficult period, and it shapes the way I work with every client today.
My path to psychotherapy began in professional services. For many years, I was the wellbeing lead for over 200 partners and staff in a global professional services organisation, where I introduced a range of wellbeing programmes and championed mental health across the organisation. I became the person colleagues turned to in their most difficult moments, and time and again I saw that the conversations that mattered most were the ones where someone felt safe enough to be honest.
That conviction led me to complete four years of rigorous psychotherapy and counselling training, combining in-depth clinical practice with extensive personal development.
I have also worked with women supported by women's refuge services, many of whom were rebuilding their lives after domestic abuse, trauma and profound upheaval. This work has given me a deep understanding of how fear, loss and survival shape a person, and of the courage it takes to begin again.
Today I work with adults facing grief, trauma, life transitions and the challenging chapters that can leave us feeling lost. I offer a calm, confidential and non-judgemental space where you can be heard, make sense of what you are carrying, and move forward at your own pace.
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Other types of Therapy offered
- Brief therapy
- CBT
- Humanistic
- Person centred
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
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