Caitlin Buon

Practice Hours

12.00 pm to 19.30 Mon-Thurs

I have current availability

I offer a caring and confidential space to explore what is happening in any area of your life, how to bring meaning to a situation or find ways to go onward.

​My approach is to work with each person’s unique experience and way of making meaning about their life. I work in a collaborative, co-creative and compassionate way that respects each person’s autonomy and wisdom to know or discover what they need. It is not my role to diagnose or pathologize a person’s experience. Rather it is to accompany the people I work alongside, with a focus on how the person experiences themselves, others and their lifeworld. 

I am committed to what Johnella Bird (2003)  has described as the 'development of processes where discovery is privileged' over and above a strict adherence to the 'structural boundaries produced by models'. I have evolved an approach that draws on ideas and practices that support this process and especially from narrative, psychodramatic and attachment-based therapies. My approach is best described as phenomenological and dialogical. Meaning that I stay as close as possible to what is happening for the person who is trying to give meaning to their experience and give regard to the dialogue emerging within that person's struggle and between us in our conversations. 

The other critical aspect of my way of being as a therapist is in giving space to knowing and naming how the use of power in a person's life has created or contributed to their happiness, situation or suffering. For me, a great deal of a person's suffering, my own included, is entirely understandable where power has been used to marginalize a person and 'other' them. Issues around social justice are therefore central to my understanding of the ongoing process in becoming a person and a therapist.

I work in private practice in the Melrose area of the Scottish Borders. 

I provide therapy to adults of any age for up to 20 sessions. I work with individuals, couples, and relationships. Sessions are offered in person, online or by phone.

I value and respect difference and diversity and work with all people, beliefs, and ways of being - including gender, sexuality, and relationship diversity.

I am open to working with any aspect of a person’s life unless I have a reason to recommend that you work with another more suited therapist/facilitator which we will explore together. Please get in touch with any questions and to discuss availability.

At our initial consultation we will explore whether I am a good fit for your needs.

At this session we can explore any initial questions you may have about working with me and how I might be of assistance at this time. This will help us to begin to get a sense of...

• the focus and frequency of your sessions
• whether you would like to work with me one-to-one or join a psychotherapy group
• agreeing on a set number of sessions or to work in an open-ended way
• any specific goals you might have that can be changed or reviewed at any time
• or whether you prefer to work with whatever is happening for you as and when issues arise. 

I look forward to hearing from you and exploring the possibility of working together...