Spiritual direction offers accompaniment for your spiritual journey, time in which to share your reflections with a sympathetic fellow traveller. On the journey there’s no set itinerary everyone must follow. But that doesn’t mean there are no maps, no signposts, and the role of the spiritual director can be to suggest resources you might find it helpful to explore and reflect on.
Life Coaching – structured, goal focused sessions to help you find new directions for your life, especially through times of change. The core belief of coaching is that we already have the resources to choose a new direction and start moving towards it. Through skilled and sensitive listening and questioning your coach helps you to clarify priorities, choose goals and set a programme for action.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy can help you to make sense of overwhelming problems by exploring thoughts, feelings, actions. Each of these areas can affect the others. For example, your thoughts about a problem can affect how you feel physically and emotionally, and how you act upon it. For more information on benefits click NHS link http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Cognitive-behavioural-therapy/Pages/How-does-it-work.aspx
Charges:
Spiritual direction £25 per hour
Life Coaching £25 per hour
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: traineeship sessions, suggested donation: £20
The services of the following are available based at Emmaus House or elsewhere.
Andrew Bain (Spiritual Direction and Life Coaching)
Andrew is trained and qualified as a spiritual director (under the auspices of the Society of the Sacred Mission, an Anglican religious order), as a life coach (Glasgow Caledonian University), and has counselling skills training (COSCA). Andrew’s main inspirations are Benedictine and Franciscan; but he has a broadly based experience of the range of Christian traditions as well as training in Buddhist mindfulness meditation. Andrew has affiliate membership of the Association for Coaching and is presently working towards full accreditation. (For more about Andrew see “About Us”).
Contact details for appointments with Andrew:
Tel: 0131 228 1066; E-mail: info@emmaushouse-edinburgh.co.uk
Janet Matthews (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy trainee)
Presently engaged in CBT training with the Centre of Therapy, Glasgow (COSCA validated), Janet is able to offer sessions as part of her training programme. For further information about Janet see “About us”.
Contact details for appointments with Andrew:
Tel: 0131 228 1066; E-mail: info@emmaushouse-edinburgh.co.uk
Barbara Buda (Spiritual Direction)
Following a career in social work, Barbara trained as a Spiritual Director prior to co-founding and running a House of Prayer as a member of a new prayer-based community whose vision is to share faith and food for the journey to God. She is currently a Core Team member of the Epiphany Group, which supports and provides ongoing training and supervision for those practising as Spiritual Directors in the Ignatian tradition. Barbara has a long-standing interest in the arts and is passionate about the relationship between faith, life and creativity.
Liza Coates
Liza comes to spiritual direction with a background in psychology. She is enthusiastic about reading the Bible with the expectation of hearing something that enlightens her life, she says there is so much psychology in the Bible. Having made her life profession in the Third Order of the Society of St Francis (Anglican Franciscan) in 1980, Liza has continued to find support from her local community. She trained in Spiritual Direction in 2011 on the Emmaus Course. Since becoming a grandmother Liza has become more aware of the way faith and spirituality are passed from one generation to another.
Thérèse McHugh-Pratt 
Therese has worked in these fields for twenty-five years, and has designed and delivered extended courses in spiritual accompaniment. She has a Masters degree in Practical Theology from the University of Edinburgh, and is a psychotherapist in the Jungian and Integrative traditions. She spent some years in a base Christian Community in the 70s, and later spent some months of sabbatical leave living alongside a contemplative community, studying meditation and the contemplative way. She has a broad experience of spiritualities, both interdenominational, and inter-faith. Married to Mark, Thérèse lives in East Lothian. For further details or to contact : www.atthestillpoint.co.uk
Di Williams(Body,Therapy and Labyrinthj Facilitator/ Spiritual Accompanier)
Di, a Liverpudlian by birth, is an Anglican Priest, body therapist, labyrinth facilitator and author. After living in a Christian community in the Yorkshire Dales, then teaching Religious Education in Wigan, she returned to Liverpool in the mid eighties to be ordained. Her ministry brought her to Scotland in 2000.
As part of the care and support offered at Emmaus House Di offers:
- body therapy sessions(in which she specialises in intuitive,gentle,healing touch through massage)
- labyrinth sessions (in which she supports the walkers reflection on their experience in the labyrinth)
This work flows from her understanding of embodied prayer.
Di offers massage or labyrinth sessions on most Tuesday afternoons (and on other days by prior arrangement).
Contact details for appointments with Di: Tel: 07779922268; Email: diwilliams.labyrinth@gmail.com
A Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SC042957)
