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Rowan's Background
Rowan was founded in 1997 in Perth by Rachel Weiss and Christine Partridge.
We have been joined by a team of sessional counsellors operating throughout Scotland, delivering counselling to private individuals and to employees through employee counselling contracts. We work from a humanistic perspective, including person-centered, Gestalt and art therapy.
Rowan also provides coaching and training in counselling skills. We aim to foster reflection and self-awareness, in order to promote growth in our clients both individual and corporate. We want to awaken the soul and provide space for refreshment and new growth.
All ROWAN counsellors are accredited or trained to at least diploma level and have extensive experience of working with a wide range of people and issues.
Rowan has been assessed and gained entry onto the Register of Recognised Counselling Organisations by COSCA, the professional body for counselling and psychotherapy in Scotland. Rowan abides by COSCA's code of ethics and that of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP).
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Rachel Weiss
MSc, PGCE, ILTHE, PG Dip. in Counselling and Supervision, MBACP(accred)
Counsellor, Coach, Mediator, and Trainer 
Rachel Weiss is the senior partner of Rowan Consultancy, which she founded in 1997. Her counselling training was based on humanistic and Gestalt approaches, with a holistic view attending to the physical, emotional and cognitive aspects of each person. She works with clients to provide a supportive space where they can explore any fixed patterns of responding and believes that by becoming more aware of yourself, you will have more choices and options available to you. She is also a COSCA accredited trainer in counselling skills, an associate lecturer with the Open University and an accredited member of the Higher Education Academy. Rachel is accredited by the BACP, and is a UKRC registered independent counsellor. |
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Sarah Jauncey Dip. Integrative Counselling 
Sarah did a counselling diploma with CiiC, Colleagues in Integrative Counselling, Scotland. Her way of working combines a variety of approaches, including the psychodynamic, Jungian and humanistic traditions. She is also interested in dream work, and accessing the unconscious through metaphor and symbolism. Before training as a counsellor Sarah had a career in textile design. Her own creativity and interest in the therapeutic use of the arts has had a great influence on her counselling practice. She enjoys working with artists from all fields, exploring blocks and facilitating the creative process. Sarah worked as a counsellor at the Perth Association of Mental Health. She now works with Rowan, both as a counsellor and as a trainer on the Cosca certificate course. |
Julia Berry MA Integrative Arts Psychotherapy, Dip. Counselling, UKCP reg.
Counsellor, Supervisor, and Trainer. 
Julia trained and worked as a registered general and paediatric nurse for fifteen years before training as a counsellor. She later qualified as an integrative arts psychotherapist and managed the counselling service for the Directorate of Women and Child Health at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. Julia works with Rowan Consultancy as a counsellor, trainer and supervisor. She is registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapists (UKCP) and is a member of the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (IATE). Julia works within the UKCP approved code of ethics and practice of IATE. |
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Steve Coulson 
Steve is a qualified professional accredited Coach, NL P Practitioner and a Trainer. He has particular expertise in Life & Personal Change work and Executive & Business Coaching and Development. He has experience of working in major retail business, in senior management positions, which presented him with the opportunity to learn, develop and realise the benefits to staff and customers of coaching in the work place. He coaches clients with a variety of issues from personal relationships to directorships and organisational change and development for businesses large and small. Steve is totally committed to the belief that people have everything within themselves to be all that they want and can be. The role of the coach is to help them unlock their thinking, understand their values and beliefs to maximise their opportunities. Steve brings insight, curiosity, great care and a safe environment to his coaching and work with people. When he is not coaching Steve's spends his time with his wife and two children, his horse 'Murphy', mountain biking, rugby and lots of other things mainly equine! |
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Sheila Beare 
Sheila is a Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist in advanced clinical training and trained with the Edinburgh Institute of Counselling & Psychotherapy. Sheila has experience in working with a range of issues including anxiety & depression, bereavement, anger management, workplace issues, personal stress/difficulties, abuse/trauma, relationship problems (incl. couple work), eating disorders and borderline personality disorder. Sheila has worked on an ongoing basis for several years now with survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Sheila fully believes “it is possible to alter how we are in our lives to improve the quality of our experience of life”. |
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Carolyn Strobos,
BSc, MRSS, Dip.
Psychotherapy, UKCP Reg. 
Carolyn graduated from the Minster Centre with a Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and is now UKCP registered. She has volunteered for CRUSE Bereavement Service since 2001. This shows her particular interest and experience in working with loss in all its guises. As part of Carolyn's training, she worked in a tertiary care day centre in the NHS. This gave her vast experience in working with adult survivors of sexual abuse and adults with mental illness, including depression and anxiety. At present, she works for Rowan and in private practice. She also supervises other counsellors and within CRUSE. Carolyn combines psychodynamic and humanistic styles of counselling. She enjoys counselling because of the relationship it creates between herself and the client. "In a safe space, when a client feels heard, understood, and supported, I find they move towards self understanding, acceptance and awareness, and thereby feel they have more choice." |
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Vivien Campbell
BA Hons., PG Dip. in Counselling 
Vivien is a qualified and experienced person-centred counsellor and trainer. She is a Member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and has worked in a number of different settings. In addition to her work with Rowan, Vivien is a Staff and Student Counsellor at the University of Dundee. She also delivers counselling skills training to health professionals within the NHS. She has a very open and flexible approach to counselling and is happy to work with whatever issues people bring. |
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Wendy Brown
PG Dip. in Counselling  Wendy holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and is a Member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy. As an Integrative Counsellor Wendy works within a framework of Personal Construct Psychology, together with Psychodynamic, Person Centred and Cognitive Behavioural models of counselling. “This approach recognises and values the connections, not always conscious, between a person’s inner and outer experiences and the significance of their past in relation to their present. The therapeutic potential of the relationship between myself and the client as we work together, can enable you to look at how you relate to yourself and how you relate to others.” Wendy has previously worked for 2 years with Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse and within Falkirk & District Association for Mental Health. She currently works within the NHS as well as in private practice. |
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Mark Hancock
BA, MA, PG Psych., UKCP reg. Mark Hancock is a UKCP registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist and he is a member of the Association for Group and Individual Psychotherapy, the Scottish Institute of Human Relations and the College of Psychoanalysts (UK). His clinical experience has been in the NHS, for non-statutory organisations and in private practice. He worked for 7 years with survivors of torture and organised violence and he currently works with survivors of childhood sexual abuse, rape/sexual assault and domestic violence. He has an interest in working with individuals, couples, families and groups. He has a particular interest in forensic issues. He has a background and training in psychoanalytic and existential approaches and these inform his work.
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