Roslin is the Clinical Director, Counsellor and Owner of MAC Counselling & Coaching Limited. She is a highly experienced Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor. Roslin is a Registered Member of BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) & a Registered Practitioner Member of COSCA (Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland).
I am often described by friends, colleagues and clients as warm, empathic, intuitive, down-to-earth, straight-talking and gently humorous. I hope that gives you a sense of what it might feel like to work with me: professional and supportive, but also real, human and approachable.
I have always been deeply curious about people, relationships and what helps us heal, grow and change. I believe we come to understand ourselves more fully through connection, and therapy can offer a safe and meaningful space to begin that process.
I offer a relaxed, compassionate and professional therapeutic relationship where you can explore what is going on for you without judgement. My aim is to help you better understand yourself, make sense of your experiences, and develop practical tools to manage life’s challenges.
Therapy with me is collaborative. We may explore your past, your relationships, your patterns, your emotions, or the parts of yourself that feel stuck, overwhelmed or conflicted. We will also look at what helps you feel more grounded, confident and able to move forward.
In addition to counselling, I am also an experienced Life and Business Coach, supporting people to create meaningful and lasting change in both their personal and professional lives.
I am particularly passionate about supporting clients with:
I attend regular clinical supervision and ongoing professional development to ensure that my practice remains ethical, reflective and effective. I have also delivered group workshops and retreats and have taught on Counselling Certificate programmes.
Before becoming a counsellor, I worked in financial services in roles involving sales, accountancy, relationship management, team building and mentoring. This has given me valuable insight into the pressures of professional and corporate environments, and how relationships, stress and personal wellbeing can influence confidence, performance and fulfilment.
I bring together counselling, coaching, supervision and life experience to offer a grounded, compassionate and practical approach to helping people understand themselves and create change.
I’ve been working with Ros for over a year now, and I honestly don’t know where I would be without her.
She has a way of helping you see things more clearly, connecting the dots and gently guiding you towards understanding yourself in a way that I hadn’t experienced through other forms of therapy.
She is calm, approachable, incredibly trustworthy and, most importantly, genuinely invested in helping you move forward. She advocates for you when you need someone in your corner, but she also challenges you when you need to be challenged. I think that balance is what makes her so brilliant.
I know there is still a long road ahead, and I’m still figuring things out, but for the first time in a long while, I feel like I’m heading in the right direction.
I’ll always be incredibly grateful for that.
I’ve learned that counselling isn’t always about sitting on a couch and talking. Yes, there was a lot of that — a lot of talking, thinking, feeling and making sense of things. But sometimes that work leads you to places you never expected to go, and sometimes healing looks very different from what you imagined it would.
And then I did a thing - I went with Ros and stood in the gallery of an ice rink, looking out over the ice.
Big deal? For me, it was enormous.
I haven’t been inside an ice rink since working in Lockerbie after the bombing of Pan Am 103 nearly four decades ago. I didn’t take the kids skating. I didn’t take the grandkids skating I didn’t even stop to watch the skaters when I came across them in public parks and city squares during winter fairs. I don’t really know what I was scared of. I just knew that, in my mind, I would smell the smells, see the sights and feel the emotions all over again.
And some of that was true. It brought back painful memories. It brought back a lot of anger.
But it also brought something I hadn’t expected: peace. And, perhaps most importantly, an ability to let go of some of what I had carried for so long.
So what was Ros’ part in that visit?
She didn’t rush me. She didn’t ask anything of me. She didn’t try to fix it.
She simply walked into one of the darkest places I’ve carried for nearly forty years and stood there with me. She held the space. And somehow, because she was there, I finally felt safe enough to face something I had been carrying since Lockerbie.
I went into counselling thinking I knew what my problems were. I thought I knew what needed fixing, what I needed to work on and where the difficult stuff lived. Turns out, I didn’t know as much as I thought I did. That’s perhaps the biggest surprise of all — sometimes you have to be willing to look somewhere you never expected to find the answer.
“Roslin’s ability to support me through each session, giving me invaluable advice on difficult issues, experiences, and scenarios I had encountered, was ultimately, life changing. From being in crisis during the lowest point of my life, to the confidently authentic and head strong individual - it has been one of the best experiences of my life.
Equipping me with effective tools, Therapy, has given me a new found sense of self-awareness & contentment I had never experienced before. Eternally grateful.”
“I cannot recommend Ros highly enough. She is a wonderful mix of professional, experienced and learned whilst also being relaxed, humorous and real. My journey has been a long one and I can only imagine the patience she required as I went round and round in circles about the same things- but she gave me plenty of time and space and always made me feel as though she knew there was hope for a new beginning, even when I couldn't see the next step. I will be forever grateful for the impact she has had on my life.”
