Training, Mentoring and Consultancy

Pathways to Transformation

Pathways to transformation

You are invited to join me on the celtic festival of Samhain, 31st October and and 1st November 2025, a time of reflection as we move into the darkness of the winter months, a time for change.

Stress, distress and trauma can result in significant disconnection, both from others, and from ourselves. This workshop recognises our own needs for others when working with complexity, offering a place of restoration and development.

In this in person, 2 day, experiential workshop on the outskirts of Edinburgh (see location for further details) we will explore how we can work and move through complex emotions and states using active imagination and creative approaches, including narrative therapy, embodied practice, and clay to support transformation and healing.

This workshop brings the old and new together, blending Jungian (working at depth) and Reichian (body orientated) concepts with somatic trauma therapy, through the medium of creative methods. No prior knowledge of these ways of thinking is needed and I hope to be able to offer you new ways of thinking about, and working with, trauma and dissociation.

You are welcome to come as you are, investing in your own personal development. You are also invited to come with clients in mind, on a journey through ways of creating new opportunities for change.

This workshop is for both new and established counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists and similar.

To register please follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pathways-to-transformation-tickets-1667724752629?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

or contact me : abigail@cumbriapsychotherapy.com

Consulting and Mentoring

My consultancy work has grown and developed across the years and has included a three year tenure on the Victim's Advisory Panel within the Office for Criminal Justice Reform, Chairing various strategic and operational groups on themes such as Child Sexual Exploitation and Safeguarding, developing Trauma Informed teaching practice across schools in the North-East and Cumbria (https://osiriseducational.co.uk/blog/presenters/abigail-finnegan/), Training Aid workers overseas (https://genchayat.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/240330-EarthquakeReport.pdf), and delivering strategic training across all sectors relating to trauma and service development.

Through the development of my various strands of work I have held a core ethical belief that therapy needs to be accessible. I'm hoping to bring some of what I have learned to therapists looking to develop their offering, perhaps into private practice, perhaps developing community based services including community interest groups and charities, perhaps developing services at strategic level.

Consulting and Mentoring

My consultancy work has grown and developed across the years and has included a three year tenure on the Victim's Advisory Panel within the Office for Criminal Justice Reform, Chairing various strategic and operational groups on themes such as Child Sexual Exploitation and Safeguarding, developing Trauma Informed teaching practice across schools in the North-East and Cumbria (https://osiriseducational.co.uk/blog/presenters/abigail-finnegan/), Training Aid workers overseas (https://genchayat.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/240330-EarthquakeReport.pdf), and delivering strategic training across all sectors relating to trauma and service development.

Through the development of my various strands of work I have held a core ethical belief that therapy needs to be accessible. I'm hoping to bring some of what I have learned to therapists looking to develop their offering, perhaps into private practice, perhaps developing community based services including community interest groups and charities, perhaps developing services at strategic level.