Nurturing your mental health with care and expertise
At Mind Solution Therapy, I provide a safe and confidential space where you can explore your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. As a fully qualified and trained counsellor, I’m here to help you understand and address personal challenges, improve your mental health, and develop effective coping strategies.

As a therapist I can help you with:
- Understand yourself more fully
- Identify and gain awareness of your relationships and family issues
- Navigating through trauma
- Resolve conflicts
- Strengthen and rebuild friendship, attachment and intimacy
- Eliminate dysfunctional behaviours
- Learn new skills to help you within your private and working life
- To help you find the way to your authentic self

Online, telephone and face-to-face counselling available
- Single and Block booking options
- Introduction call to determine which approach may be best suited to your needs
- Free telephone consultation so you can decide whether you would like to work with me.
- Contact to discuss options
I have a deeper understanding working with:
- Low self-esteem
- Anxiety
- Grief and bereavement
- Relationship breakdown
- Domestic violence
- Narcissistic abuse
- Post-natal depression
- Migratory grief and identity
“I’m Bettina McKinnon, a qualified and BACP-registered counsellor based in the Northeast of England. I hold a FdA Integrative Counselling and a BSc (Hons) in Counselling Skills and Therapeutic Communication. I bring a diverse background to my practise including experience in business and economics, as well as over a decade of working with elderly individuals. These experiences have shaped my understanding of the many challenges people face and deepened my empathy and insight as a therapist. “

“Integrative Person-Centred Counsellor, drawing on a variety of counselling approaches that best fit you such as CBT and mindfulness. I provide long and short-term therapy online or face to face.”
Bettina McKinnon MBCAP

What will happen next
When you contact me, we can discuss and assess your reasons for accessing therapy and how we could work together.
Once you have decided if I am the right therapist for you, we can meet online or face-to-face for our first session, where we will complete an assessment form together, agree and sign our contract and decide how we will progress together.
I will collaborate with you starting from the place that you currently reside in. We will work together with whatever you decide to bring, at a pace that suits you. We can work together for as long as you feel necessary.

Start your journey
Please contact us to discuss this further by clicking link below or by completing our Contact Us form below to ask any questions that you may have.
We can arrange a time for a free telephone consultation to share your concerns, and this enables us to determine which approach may be best suited to your needs, at a pace most comfortable and beneficial to you.
If you would like to face to face therapy we can work together in Birtley, conveniently located near Chester-Le-Street, Washington, Gateshead, Sunderland, and Durham.
My standard fee is £50 per session, with each session lasting 50 minutes. However, I offer block booking, 6 sessions for £45 per session. Please contact me to discuss this further and ask any question you may have.
Contact me on 07708 029509 or via the Contact Form below.

