Our Team

Anne-Marie Bourquin is an experienced senior counsellor / psychotherapist who works with individual adults (age 16+) with a wide range of issues and problems including: anxiety; depression / low mood; work/life stress; abuse and neglect; anger/aggresssion; assertiveness; bereavement / grief; life transitions; loneliness; low self-esteem; obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD); post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); relationship issues; self harm; trauma; and many more issues.

She has a particular interest in how our earliest relationships and experiences, including difficult or disrupted family dynamics, can shape our sense of ourselves and how we relate to others throughout life. Clients may have spent years trying to understand why certain relationships feel difficult, may struggle to trust themselves, or may wonder why patterns from their family or childhood seem to follow them into their adult life. They may have experienced trauma, loss or difficult family dynamics, or parenting that left them feeling unseen, responsible for others, or uncertain of their own needs. They may find themselves repeating patterns in relationships, struggle with boundaries, or find it difficult to understand or express what they need. 
 

Anne-Marie's way of working

Anne-Marie practises from a psychodynamic orientation, and works flexibly, drawing on psychodynamic principles to meet the individual needs of each client. This means not only exploring what is happening in the present but also how past experiences, relationships and ways of coping may be influencing thoughts, feelings and relationships in the present. She believes that a strong, trusting therapeutic relationship is at the heart of meaningful therapy. 

Anne-Marie works in a trauma informed way and she is experienced in providing both short and longer term /counselling / psychotherapy.
 

Anne-Marie's background and training

Before becoming a therapist, Anne-Marie began her career in education. She also worked in a range of roles in the third and private sectors in New Zealand, Ireland and the UK. Her professional experience includes therapeutically supporting children, young people and adults affected by trauma and loss, working as a dyslexia therapist with a leading London dyslexia charity, and supporting education professionals and foster carers with permanent foster care. Anne-Marie has also designed and delivered training for professionals working in education, the voluntary sector and foster care.  

Anne-Marie has a Post-Graduate Diploma (with distinction) in Counselling, from the University of Edinburgh alongside qualifications in education, psychology and additional support needs.  

Anne-Marie is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).



 

Anne-Marie's fee

Anne-Marie charges £75 a session for self-funding clients. She also works with clients referred via their employer/organisation – for further details, please visit First Psychology Assistance.