About
A path shaped
by training &
by living.
Educator, counselor, performer, memoirist. Fiona's work has been shaped by decades inside schools and consulting rooms, and by chapters lived on stage and in recovery.
Fiona Goodwin is an intuitive counselor in private practice in Los Angeles, California. Trained in psychotherapy in the UK, she is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Her work combines psychodynamic and person-centered counseling with deep intuition, emotional insight, and a spiritually informed approach to healing and transformation. Drawing from years of Jungian analysis, deep inner work, and lived experience, Fiona supports clients in reconnecting with their authentic selves.
Her approach is compassionate, direct, insightful, and deeply human.
Training & education
After completing a BA Honours degree in French and Italian, she earned a postgraduate teaching qualification at the Institute of Education in London and later trained as an educational counselor.
She spent over two decades working in secondary education, including pioneering an inclusion unit for adolescents with emotional and behavioral challenges, and developing a whole-school emotional literacy program. Her work received national recognition in The Education Guardian.
Fiona later completed a Master's degree in Spiritual Psychology at the University of Santa Monica, and went on to qualify in psychotherapy in the UK.
A wider path
Alongside her formal training, Fiona's personal journey has included Jungian analysis, meditation retreats, recovery work, spiritual study, service work, and extensive exploration of healing practices across different cultures and traditions.
These experiences deepened her appreciation of identity, belonging, grief, transformation, and the universal longing to feel fully accepted as ourselves.
As a gay woman whose own journey included moving beyond shame and rejection, Fiona has a particular sensitivity toward those who have felt like outsiders.
That includes those whose otherness has come through sexuality, identity, family dynamics, addiction, trauma — or simply the long quiet experience of feeling different.
Creativity, courage & reinvention
In 2005, Fiona stepped away from counseling temporarily to pursue a lifelong dream of performing. She studied film acting in Hollywood before moving into comedy and storytelling.
Her acclaimed one-woman show, A Very British Lesbian, performed in the US, Australia, London, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it received five-star reviews. Her memoir of the same name is available on Amazon and Audible.
This chapter of her life deepened her belief that healing work consistently results in reclaiming voice, creativity, authenticity, and joy.
A Selected Chronology
Threads of a working life.
A practice rarely arrives in a straight line. These are some of the chapters that have shaped this one.
BA Honours, French & Italian
Foundational language and literature training — early attention to voice, translation, and meaning.
Postgraduate teaching, Institute of Education, London
Qualification leading to over two decades in secondary education.
Inclusion unit & emotional literacy program
Pioneering work with adolescents facing emotional and behavioral challenges; nationally recognized in The Education Guardian.
M.A. Spiritual Psychology, University of Santa Monica
A turn toward depth, transpersonal frameworks, and the inner life.
UK psychotherapy training & BACP registration
Formal qualification in psychotherapy; ongoing registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Film acting, comedy, storytelling
A creative chapter culminating in the one-woman show A Very British Lesbian.
Edinburgh Fringe — five-star reviews
Performances in the US, Australia, London, and at Edinburgh; memoir released on Amazon and Audible.
Private practice, Los Angeles
Intuitive, depth-oriented counseling for clients worldwide.
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