Person-centered counselling with deep intuition, emotional insight, and a spiritually informed approach to healing and transformation.
Fiona Goodwin is an intuitive counsellor in private practice in Los Angeles, California. Trained as a psychotherapist in the UK, she is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Her work combines psychodynamic and person-centred counselling with deep intuition, emotional insight, and a spiritually informed approach to healing and transformation. Drawing from years of Jungian analysis, deep inner work and lived experience, Fiona supports clients in reconnecting with their authentic selves.
Her approach is compassionate, direct, insightful, and deeply human.
What It’s Like to Work With Fiona
Therapy with Fiona is a collaborative and deeply reflective process. Together, client and counsellor explore the experiences, beliefs, wounds, and survival strategies that have shaped a person’s inner world.
Fiona listens deeply and creates a safe, non-judgmental space where clients can begin to reconnect with the parts of themselves that may have been silenced, rejected, or hidden away.
Her work encourages:
Clients often describe Fiona’s sessions as intuitive, grounding, compassionate, and infused with warmth and humour.
A central part of the process is learning to have brave conversations — with ourselves and with others. Transformation requires honesty, courage, and self-compassion.
Fiona’s Background
Fiona’s path to counselling has been shaped by both professional training and a rich diversity of life experience.
After completing a BA Honours degree in French and Italian, she earned a postgraduate teaching qualification at the Institute of Education in London and later trained as an educational counsellor. She spent over two decades working in secondary education, including pioneering an inclusion unit for adolescents with emotional and behavioural challenges and developing a whole-school emotional literacy programme.
Her work received national recognition in The Education Guardian.
Fiona later completed a Master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology at the University of Santa Monica and went on to qualify as a psychotherapist in the UK.
Alongside her formal training, her personal journey has included:
These experiences deepened Fiona’s appreciation of identity, belonging, grief, transformation, and the universal longing to feel fully accepted as ourselves.
Fiona understands personally what it means to search for belonging and self-acceptance. As a gay woman whose own journey included moving beyond shame and rejection, Fiona has a particular sensitivity toward those who have felt like outsiders — whether through sexuality, identity, family dynamics, addiction, trauma, or simply feeling different.
Creativity, Courage & Reinvention
In 2005, Fiona stepped away from counselling temporarily to pursue a lifelong dream of performing.
She studied film acting in Hollywood before moving into comedy and storytelling. Her acclaimed one-woman show, A Very British Lesbian, performed in the US, Australia, London, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it received five-star reviews.
Her memoir of the same name is available on Amazon and Audible.
This chapter of her life deepened her belief that healing work consistently results in reclaiming voice, creativity, authenticity, and joy.
Working Together
Fiona works internationally with clients via Zoom and telephone.
Sessions are 50-60 minutes.
Finding the right therapeutic fit matters. If you feel drawn to this work, you are warmly invited to reach out for an initial conversation.
Email: fiona@fionagoodwin.com
“At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you.”