A little about me

It’s probably useful to tell you a bit about me, so you can decide whether to get in touch.

Truth and courage are central to how I work. I seek to enable people to live the life they want to live, rather than the life they think they should live or have somehow ended up living, with all of its trials and entanglements. I'm passionate about helping people to navigate the challenges of being human, in a way which reconnects body, mind and spirit. Life has thrown me a fair few curveballs and through them I have come to trust that the phoenix rises from the ashes, that life's greatest tests can be initiations.

I believe in the spirit of all things. Rocks, river, mountain, place, our other-than-human kin, the seen and un-seen. My ancestors (from Scotland, Ireland and the South West of England) and the land are my greatest teachers, and I am committed to plugging myself into the earth to recharge as often as I possibly can. I'm a nature lover, a creative, a forever student of the great mystery, and I hold inclusive, anti-supremacist principles.

Hello.
I’m Liane Maitland.

I qualified as an Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counsellor in 2012 and I worked in Norfolk and London before returning to my homeland (Scotland) in 2016, after 18 years away. I have also trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (which takes a neurobiological / somatic approach to working with symptoms of stress and trauma), Systemic Constellations (through the Centre for Systemic Constellations) and Ancestral Lineage Healing (through Ancestral Medicine).

I work from home in Haddington, East Lothian, where I live with my husband and two nutty spaniels. I also work online and my clients are based both in the UK and internationally.

Before retraining in psychotherapeutic counselling (and all the things I've done since), I worked in the corporate world for a long time, most latterly as a Human Resources Director. I gained over twenty years of experience in developing people and teams, and have never stopped being passionate about the human experience, and it's conscious unfolding.

I took a sabbatical in 2008 which I spent in Central America as the Deputy Expedition Leader for a youth development charity. It was this break from corporate life which led to me deciding to retrain. My soul told me in no uncertain terms it was time!