Cailin Edwards
Cailin Therapy
“I find I am more effective when I can listen Acceptantly to myself, and can be myself”
Carl Rogers
Therapy and Counselling in Central London
Camino ‘Primitivo’ Cailin
Welcome
There is no single reason for exploring and attending therapy. Whatever your motivation, I understand that seeking counselling and therapy may be a risky leap into the unknown for you. Your current path presents choices you are uncertain about. I offer a safe, non-judgmental, trusting, and empathetic space for you to explore, which may allow you to identify and enable your choices.
Some of the territories I have worked in:
LGBTQIA
Gender Identity
Queerness
Relationships
Coercive relationships
Family trauma
Sexual trauma
Depression
Suicidal Ideation
Loss and bereavement
Addiction
Sexual abuse
Mental distress…
Locations in London I work from:
Kings Cross N1. Caledonian Road
Hackney Therapy Rooms
Therapy Room in GP’s surgery located in Finchley Central (Northern Line)
Walking Therapy
Hampstead Heath. NW3
High Barnet Green Belt EN5
What I Do
When a change or crisis happens in your life, whether relational, gender identity or a desire to be yourself, therapy may offer you the space and possibilities to explore in-depth. It may enable you to make ‘felt’ choices that are right for you and disentangle confusing areas in your life.
I have in-depth experience counselling in gender and queer capacities.
I prize and recognise that you are the best authority for your choices and decisions, and I will be with you while you explore what is best for you.
Everyone attends therapy for their reasons which are infinite. Some of the areas that are explored:
- How can I become myself.
- What do I want.
- I am not happy with the body I was born in.
- Why am I not content in my relationship?
- I feel bullied at work. How can I safely assert myself.
- I feel a need to change my life, but I don’t know how or why.
- I’ve always had a difficult relationship with my family and siblings.
- I am an addict.
- I am in a coercive relationship and not sure how to change my circumstances.
What has arisen now might have to do with past relationships or relate to current circumstances in the ‘here and now’. It might involve the way others have wished to mould us and the current trauma of feeling a need to become that person for others while denying ourselves who we feel we wish to become or that part of ourselves that we might have forgotten or existed in the past mists of time. Talking therapy may enable processing and growth to further a connection with ourselves.
Art for Emotional Exploration
Cailin ‘Coming out in Poona’
Words might not be able to express your internal feelings. The activity of painting, drawing, and expressive gestures may be a way for you to relate to your feelings, as an alternative to or alongside talking therapy. I combine my extensive training and experience as a psychotherapist and artist to offer art as an emotional and expressive tool for exploration, and not as a clinical modality. These creative approaches are accessible to everyone and require no artistic skill- just a willingness to explore through image, colour and form as part of your unique therapeutic journey.
Walking Therapy
Walking in a confidential space can be a meditation. The rhythm of walking may work for some who find the restrictions of motionlessly sitting in a room uncomfortable. Walking and talking therapy may be another approach that is suited to exploring your feelings through movement and breathing.
I live on the edge of the Green Belt, where it is safe to walk, or in the empty spaces on Hampstead Heath and Regents Park, if that is a convenient location for you.
Cailin ‘walking therapy in the green belt, Barnet’
About Me
Courtesy of Blanka Sadikova
I was raised in London and attended the Royal Academy of Arts for my postgraduate diploma in painting/drawing and Printmaking. I spent 9 months at Atelier 17 in Paris studying and editioning for S.W. Hayter. My qualifications include an Art Teaching Certificate (ATC) from London University and the Iyengar certificate to teach yoga, which I obtained after 5 years of study in the UK and with B K S Iyengar in Poona, and additional training with Kofia Busia, Angela Farmer and Victor Van Houten.
My professional career has included painting and printmaking, documentary photography, photographic arts, video installations, and filmmaking. I also served as the Course leader/lecturer at the University of Westminster in Documentary and Photojournalism in Photography.
I am a qualified Person-Centred therapist and registered with the BACP. I trained for a year at the Minster Institute in Integrative Psychotherapy and am completing my master's in Person-Centred therapy at the Metanoia Institute with a ‘heuristic inquiry' research paper.
My clinical practice has engaged me in volunteering for Childline NSPCC for two years, counselling young persons. I have spent three years as an advanced trainee volunteering with LGBTQIA at London Friend and slightly less time at ELOP counselling LGBTQIA clients, which has offered me the opportunity to meaningfully engage with the community that I feel incredibly passionate and engaged with.
As part of my ongoing professional development, I actively engage with the LGBTQIA+ in queer peer and encounter groups and womyn feminist groups that I feel passionate about.
Professional Organisations
I am registered as a qualified therapist with BACP and work within the BACP code of ethics and guidelines.
I am a member of the Person-Centred Association.
I am a member of the Feminist Therapy Network.
I am a member of the World Association for Person Centred & Experiential Psychotherapy & Counselling.
Papers
Metanoia Institute 40th Anniversary Lecture.
Working Therapeutically with Transgender Clients. November 2024.
Therapeutic Arrangements
E-mail: cailintherapy@gmail.com
Mobile: +44 7850 866131
Individual therapy sessions:
Length: 50 minutes. Therapeutic hour.
Fees: £70-00.
Frequency weekly/fortnightly/Monthly and by arrangement.
I suggest a free 10-minute phone conversation to see if I might be suitable for you to engage in therapy with me.
Then a free 1-hour session.
Availability
Monday to Thursday.
Evenings available.
I offer a warm, welcoming, non-judgemental and confidential therapeutic relationship.
Please get in touch with me if you need further information about the therapeutic/counselling service I provide.
If you have concerns about why you may wish to attend therapy. The type of therapy I practise, and, importantly, if you feel I might be the right therapist for you.
I aim to respond within 48 hours.
Contact Cailin
Cailin 'trekking Ladakh’
Testimonials
***Will be away walking 1,500 km as part of the ‘heuristic Inquiry’ research
dissertation from 28th April – 25th June 2025.***
Please get in touch with me for bookings commencing July.
