Peter Milne

Being part of someone’s journey to better mental health, helping them feel better about themselves and their place in the world is something I love.

My training as a psychiatric nurse provides an ideal platform for my counselling practice. I use a range of counselling methods in my work with clients, and am able to help people through a range of different issues, including depression, trauma, stress and anxiety. Men are often hesitant about reaching out to seek help and I understand any feelings of apprehension to enable people to better handle the stress of everyday life.

I am strongly committed to my family and I am also passionate about issues relating to active fathering. I am married and a father of two, step-father of two and an extremely proud Grandfather.

Therapeutic Approach

As a counsellor my work involves the following:

• Working alongside and with you
• Combining your personal knowledge, with my abilities as a counsellor, so we work together to find your own individualised ways forward
• Jointly identifying and highlighting your own unique strengths and resources – because often people don’t realise the resources that they already possess
• Developing practical tools and techniques to manage your daily experiences
• Promoting self-reliance and the use of your own resources in meeting whatever challenges are present
• Seeking an outcome where you are self-empowered to make your own choices for your own benefit
• Working together so that you achieve personal power and develop your own ways of managing things in the future.

My Counselling Experience

I have worked in Mental health since I started my Nursing training in 1978 many of them in community mental health. This included follow-up of people discharged from hospital, crisis work and eventually I worked as a Nurse Therapist in a community mental health centre. This entailed triage, assessments and providing clients with therapy.

I started working in a counselling private practice in 1995 and since then at different times full-time private practice or part-time private practice/part-time counselling agency work. This has included a spell as Counselling Team Leader for a men’s counselling agency.

I am currently working part-time in Private Practice.