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About

HarmLESS Psychotherapy Social Enterprise was born in 2011. Its main aim was to raise awareness about the issues affecting people who self-harm and/or may be at risk of suicide. We provide a range of psychoeducational and learning opportunities for those affected by self-harm, either personally or professionally. We also offer one to one support. We have a sliding scale to ensure that we are as inclusive as possible and financial constrains is not a barrier to education in mental health and wellbeing.

Vision

A society conducive to health and well-being. A world where citizens play an active and fullfilling role, regardless of their personal circumstances, in helping communities and individuals to reduce the need to resort to self-harming behaviours to cope with everyday life.

Mission

Reducing the number of people who need to resort to self-harming behaviours and enable a healthier and richer life experience for people in Scotland.

Services

Our training will raise awareness around the issues affecting people who self-harm, it will enable profesionals to develop skills that will aid people who use self-harm to manage their behaviours and emotions, and will acquire knowledge that will help to respond in a way that facilitates recovery.
Open Courses
In-house training
Consultancy
Health and wellbeing workshops

Products

Open Courses
BPS Accredited Specialist Training on Managing Self-harming Behaviours.

Personality Disorders and Self-harm: the truth

Case studies: harm minimisation in practice (half day)

Mental Health Awareness

In-house training
Any of the above courses can be delivered to your organisation for a flat rate. In addition we offer

Self-harm for carers.

Self-harm for managers, including risk assessment.

Working effectively with young people who self-harm

How to draft a self-harm policy

Suicide talk

Suicide awareness

Mental Health awareness

Wellness and Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills ASIST

Qualifications

Maria Naranjo is fully qualified as Psychotherapist by Malaga University (Spain). She is a Chartered Psychologist registered with Colegio de Psicologos de Andalucia Oriental (British Psychological Society (BPS) equivalent in Spain). She is also registered with BPS as Graduate and with COSCA as Associate. Maria holds a Postgraduate Teaching Qualification and has trained as a trainer with EVOC (Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations Council). She is an ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) trainer. Person Centered Therapy principles underpin her therapeutic approach. She has trained extensively in Person Centered Planning has completed Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki at Practitioner level (Lendrick Lodge). Maria is also a WRAP (Wellness and Recovery Action Plan) facilitator.

Staff & Management

Maria has been working with people who self harm for almost a decade. In her previous job for a National Charity she worked as Self Harm Co-ordinator and gained valuable experience and knowledge of the issues affecting people who engage on self harming behaviour and those who look after them, professionally or personally. Furthermore, she has provided managerial, developmental and strategic support to several projects. Hence Maria has worked wish issues such as secondary trauma, staff burnout, challenges to established policy and procedures, and risk assessments/management.

Maria has been delivering training for the best part of nine years to professionals of all backgrounds and also families affected by self harm.

Maria adheres to the Code of Conduct as set out by the British Psychological Society, COSCA (Counselling and Psychotherapy in Scotland) and COPAO (Colegio Oficial de Psicologos de Andalucia Oriental).

Clients

Borders Recovery Network

Queen Victoria School

Jordanhill School

Dumfries Choose Life

Princess Royal Trust Lanarkshire Carers Centre

Borders College

Cruse Tayside

Health in mind

Midlothian council

Memberships & Accreditations

BPS & COSCA

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