About Andrea
Andrea Smith
Not professionally. Personally.
I'm a Chartered Psychologist with postgraduate training in both Educational and Applied Psychology — registered with the BPS and HCPC. But alongside my formal training, I bring something less easy to quantify: lived experience of the kind of upheaval and displacement that my clients often carry.
I've navigated life across cultures. I understand what it means to rebuild — your sense of self, your sense of safety, your sense of home. And I found my own way through, which is what now allows me to walk alongside others in theirs.
"When you sit with me, I understand your world before you've said a word."
Qualifications
M.Sc Educational Psychology — University of Dundee
MA Psychology — University of Glasgow
Chartered Psychologist — British Psychological Society
HCPC Registered Practitioner
Why This Works
Some people hear "essential oils" and think aromatherapy. This is different. Aroma Freedom Technique is a structured psychological process that uses essential oils to access the brain's own natural mechanism for updating and releasing emotional memories.
We're not doing anything alternative or strange. We're working with your nervous system — creating the right conditions for the brain to do what it's actually designed to do. The oils are the delivery mechanism. The change is neurological.
"This work happens in the body, not just the mind. Because that's where real change lives."
Learn how it works →My Story
My path to this work wasn't a straight line. It was shaped by war, by displacement, by the particular exhaustion of rebuilding a life — and a sense of self — in the aftermath of instability. I know what it means to lose the ground beneath your feet and have to find it again.
I also know what it's like to carry that experience across cultures — to navigate life in places that aren't quite home, to hold an identity that doesn't fit neatly into one box. That cross-cultural experience is woven into everything I do.
"I came to Aroma Freedom Technique not as a practitioner first — but as someone who needed it. I used it in one of the hardest moments of my life. And it brought me to a healthier, calmer place than I had known in years."
That experience changed the direction of my practice. I had spent years working as a psychologist — trained at Glasgow and Dundee, registered with the BPS and HCPC — but I had never encountered something that reached the emotional root of distress so directly and so gently.
So I trained in it. And now I bring together the rigour of clinical psychology with the depth of Aroma Freedom Technique — to help people who are weary from trying, finally find a way through.
This work isn't something I do from the outside. It's something I found my own way through first.
Qualifications & Registration
M.Sc Educational Psychology
University of Dundee
MA Psychology
University of Glasgow
Chartered Psychologist
British Psychological Society
Registered Practitioner
HCPC
Work With Andrea
Your free consultation is a conversation — no pressure, no commitment.
Just a chance to share what you're carrying, and find out whether this is the right path forward for you.
Where stillness meets emotional freedom.
