Fiona Goodwin works with adults and adolescents from all walks of life. She supports those wanting to create a more authentic and empowered relationship with themselves, and with others. She has been dedicated to finding her own voice and now seeks to empower others to find theirs.

Teaching clients to have brave conversations is a significant part of the process. Courage is essential when transformation is our intention.

Study

Fiona gained her postgraduate teaching certificate at the London Institute of Education following a BA in French and Italian. As a young high school teacher she qualified as an educational counselor with the College of Preceptors. Then followed twenty-one years of working in high schools – including pioneering an inclusion unit for adolescents with emotional and behavioural issues and designing a whole school emotional literacy programme for staff and students. Her work gained national recognition in the Education Guardian. Following the completion of a Masters in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica she became licensed in the UK as a psychotherapist with the BACP (British Association of Counselors and Psychotherapists).

How She Got Here

Fiona came to her full-time private practice via Vipassana’s in Thailand and Australia, spiritual retreats in Bali, Ayahuasca in Peru, a kibbutz in Israel, the Way of Council in Ojai and peyote in Wales. The Masters in Spiritual Psychology at the University of Santa Monica was where she finally came to peace about her sexuality. Being rejected by evangelical christianity for being gay provoked a search for a kinder way of thinking and cultivated a deep empathy for the “outsider.” Acceptance of her sexuality opened the door to creativity and a love of writing and storytelling. She is also a trained kundalini yoga teacher.

Fiona’s approach is person-centered and psychodynamic. She creates a safe space in which clients are able to speak freely about their inner and outer landscape. Vulnerable thoughts and feelings that have been pushed out of conscious awareness are allowed to surface. Her work is characterised by wisdom, intuitiveness and humour.

She works internationally with clients via phone and Zoom.

Feel free to reach out with any questions or inquiries: fiona@fionagoodwin.com.