Welcome 

My name is Samantha McEwan. I am a BACP registered psychotherapist and mental health nurse, providing psychological therapy in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. 

Over 25 years of core profession experience as a mental health nurse has underpinned and enhanced my psychotherapy practice with a framework for high standards of ethical, clinical and professional practice.

I have a deeper understanding of mental health conditions and a higher degree of expertise and sensitivity in working with people who experience mild through to highly complex mental health difficulties. I also consider physical health and the effects of medication.

I help my clients work through a wide range of difficulties affecting their mental health and wellbeing in their personal, relational or working lives such as:

  • social or generalised anxiety and panic
  • depression
  • low self-esteem and confidence
  • overthinking and rumination
  • poor emotion regulation 
  • chronic physical illness
  • attachment and relationship issues
  • binge eating disorder or bulimia nervosa 
  • childhood trauma such as neglect or abuse 
  • chronic or complex trauma and PTSD/ cPTSD
  • career difficulties, workplace stress, bullying or burnout

Clients experience a supportive, compassionate, and trauma-informed approach based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, from the perspective of understanding and working with the impact of early or adult life experiences on wellbeing, identity and relationships. 

Additional therapies I integrate depending on individual client needs are: 

  • ACT - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • CFT- Compassion Focused Therapy
  • DBT- Dialectical Behavioural Therapy skills, 
  • Mindfulness Based CBT (adapted for trauma)
  • Trauma therapy using systemic, somatic and cognitive processing approaches, and attachment focused therapy
  • Schema therapy

Reconnecting with your life and future

Often when difficult experiences affect our health and wellbeing we can lose our sense of agency, identity, self-worth, strengths, boundaries and purpose - therapy can help you to foster reconnection with these. 

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