As a team of Counselling Skills tutors, our teaching style is infused with the principles of person-centred values, attitudes and a way of being.

Do read more about our person-centred approach here

Meet the Team

  • Photograph of Lucy Mason smiling

    Lucy Mason

    (she/her)

    I am an experienced trainer, having worked internationally for 2 decades as a social justice facilitator using a person-centred approach to support people, groups, communities and organisations to become more fully themselves and to live in more alignment with their values. I am also a person-centred therapist and began facilitating the COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skills in 2022. I am also a COSCA accredited trainer.

    I love accompanying people engaged in this powerful and transformative process. As a therapist and trainer, I deeply value the lived experience we each bring with us, and I work to co-create a nurturing and empowering environment.

    See Lucy’s profile on The Counselling Directory.

  • Photograph of Jim Flowers smiling

    Jim Flowers

    (he/him)

    I have worked for many years as an accredited COSCA trainer, as a Person Centred therapist and as a counsellor supervisor. Previously I worked as a support worker, a community worker and youth worker in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh.

    For many years, until recently, I was one of the COSCA Certificate Course Leads at Edinburgh College and instrumental in developing the highly successful Certificate programme there.

    From this work, I know well the value of the Counselling Certificate course as a catalyst for deep and radical personal change and professional development - I love being alongside students engaged in that process.

    See Jim’s profile on the PCT Scotland website.

  • Photograph of Rachel Watt smiling

    Rachel Watt

    (she/her)

    I completed my Counselling Diploma 15 years ago and have had experience working in a variety of settings with diverse groups of people. Working primarily in the third sector, I have been involved in fundraising and setting up counselling services, as well as providing Counselling to a wide range of people. I specialise in working with Children and Young People, and for the last 10 years have worked as a School Counsellor in schools across Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian.

    I am a COSCA accredited trainer who has been delivering the COSCA Certificate since 2021 and I love the variety it brings to my practice. I enjoy the dynamic of group work and seeing students develop both personally and professionally. It’s a privilege to be part of this journey with students and to see the impact Counselling can have on people’s lives.

    See Rachel’s profile on The Counselling Directory