Fingal Dorman
Clinical Fellow in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Contact details
- Email: fingal.dorman@ed.ac.uk
Availability
I work part-time. My normal working hours are:
Wednesday 12 – 8pm
Thursday 9am – 5pm
Friday 9am – 5pm
Background
I am part of the team of Placement Managers at Hope Park Counselling Centre, in the department of Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences. I am also part of the teaching team in the department.
In addition, I have a small private practice.
I trained as a counsellor here at the University of Edinburgh, between 2010 and 2014, and hold a Master of Counselling degree with distinction. I am an accredited member of the BACP. Before that I had worked in community based mental health roles since 2005, and began my counselling work in community contexts.
Before joining CPASS, I was a counsellor at the University of Edinburgh Student Counselling Service for almost nine years.
In the past, I worked as a mental health Collective Advocacy worker, facilitating projects in which people with lived experience of mental health difficulties (specifically psychosis and personality disorder diagnosis) could have a stronger voice and work for change. This activist perspective of mental health being linked to wider society and the world around us, rather than only being an individual matter, has strongly informed my work.
I also have a Masters degree in writing poetry and I am interested in how some parts of the creative process can feel similar to the counselling process.
I love spending time outdoors and am interested in how we pay attention to the natural world and embodied experience in counselling and psychotherapy.
Qualifications
Master of Counselling
Master of Letters (Creative Writing)
M. A. (English Literature)