Margaret Wilde

Margaret Wilde has developed a broad base of experience working with people who seek support for many different reasons. Prior to qualifying as a Therapeutic Counsellor she spent fifteen years in the helping professions, specialising in mental health and learning disability, and since qualifying her main area of practice has been trauma recovery.

She works pluralistically, drawing on multiple therapeutic approaches to shape a personalised way of working for each person. Rather than applying a single method, she integrates techniques from psychodynamic, person centred and cognitive behavioural approaches and includes meditation and mindfulness where these resonate with the client and support agreed goals.

Margaret aims to provide an open, non-judgemental space where clients can be heard and invited to explore emotions, relationships, patterns of behaviour, beliefs and their origins. Through this exploration clients can identify different ways of experiencing themselves and their relationships that may move them toward the life they want.

Her role is to facilitate that process by listening closely in order to understand and reflect back what she hears, helping clients to view situations from new perspectives and to recognise how past experiences affect current choices and reactions. By talking through difficulties and increasing self-understanding, people can begin to change reactions that hold them back and build a more positive relationship with themselves.

Margaret works from the view that each person is the expert on their own life, and she is guided by client preferences for how the work proceeds. Whether a client prefers space for open exploration, guided attention to past experience, or more interactive strategies, she adapts the approach to suit those preferences.

Together with clients she focuses on understanding, increasing self-awareness, strengthening self-esteem, finding more helpful patterns and developing a healthier relationship with the self. She encourages people to take the first step on that journey toward the changes they want to make.