Mrs Nicola McNally

Biography

As a BACP accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist, Counselling Supervisor and Trainer, I teach on the counselling programmes within the School of Education.  I am a qualified teacher and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I am a  practitioner researcher in Counselling and Psychotherapy. I have lived and worked in Aberdeenshire for 28 years. I am a consulting editor for the British Psychological Society's peer reviewed journal, the Transpersonal Psychology Review. 

External Memberships

BACP: British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy- Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist.

FHEA: Higher Education Academy - Fellow

FRSA: Royal Society for the Arts - Fellow

Research Overview

My wider research interests are Counselling and Psychotherapy, qualitative research, creative counselling, feminist epistemology and the significance of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. 

Research published:

McNally-Key, N., 2017. Creating Sacred space in Pluralistic therapy. Transpersonal Psychology Review, 19(2).

McNally-Key, N., 2020 (in press) Creative visualisations, creative counsellors: inner journeys. Transpersonal Psychology Review.

Follow me on Researchgate here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicola_Helen_Mcnally

Current Research

I am a qualitative researcher who is a member of the University's Qualitative Research Network, currently completing practitioner research in Counselling and Psychotherapy within the School of Education.

I also supervise Counselling research projects for MSc Person-Centred Counselling and M.Ed Guidance.

Jurgita ŠereikaitÄ—  MSc WBP Counselling: 

‘An examination of the Spiritual Dimension in the Therapeutic Process and the Spiritual Stance of Person-Centred Counsellors'. Successful completion June 2019.

 Leah Hughes Athanassopoulos MSc WBP Counselling:

'Investigating the impact of person centred led counselling training on students relationships'. Successful completion November 2019

Claire Mcphee MEd WBP Education:

The effectiveness of Growth Mindset interventions on reducing anxiety in adolescents. Successful completion November 2019.

Caron J Westmorland MSc WBP Counselling:

'Home is where the heart is? - the experience of acculturation for people who choose to settle in Scotland'. Successful completion June 2020.

María Elena Laguarda Silvestre MSc in PERSON-CENTRED COUNSELLING 

'Spiritual Discernment and Congruent Actualisation.'  Ongoing research 2020

Lynda Farquhar MSc WBP Counselling:

 'HOW CLASSICAL PERSON-CENTRED COUNSELLING IS EXPERIENCED BY A CLIENT- an autoethnography'. Ongoing research 2020/2021.

Prisca Coull MSc WBP Counselling:

'I do not feel stuck anymore; Critical reflection on feeling stuck as a trainee - an IPA study’. Ongoing research 2020/2021.

Funding and Grants

DHP research grant to complete fieldwork in transpersonal approaches to counselling and psychotherapy.

Teaching Responsibilities

School of Education- Tutor in the Counselling team. Providing supervision for research students in Counselling. I also teach on the COSCA Counselling Skills programme, as an accredited member of BACP who is in practice as a counsellor and psychotherapist.