Spiritual Direction, Life Coaching, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

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.

Ruth Schaebler (Spiritual Direction)

Ruth was born and raised in Bavaria (Germany) and moved to Scotland 11 years ago. Trained as a spiritual director by the Epiphany group, she is involved in retreat work, one to one sessions and days of reflection in parishes. For nine years she lived and worked in a House of Prayer in Dundee. For over 20 years Ruth has had a special interest in body awareness, in finding the quiet, life-giving place within.