Dr Shay MacAuley | Online Addiction Counsellor | Trauma Therapist | UK
Addiction and trauma are not abstract concepts to me — they have been a past reality. I am Dr Shay MacAuley, a medical doctor, a qualified addiction counsellor, and a person with over two decades of personal recovery. That combination — clinical training, specialist expertise, and lived experience — is rare. It is also, I believe, what makes the difference.
Addiction is everywhere. Substance addictions, behavioural addictions, process addictions — they afflict millions, and they almost always have trauma at their roots. I work with all of it. My role is to provide a safe space and the clinical tools you need to dismantle shame, regulate emotional chaos, and rewrite your story. We don't just aim for sobriety. We aim for wholeness — a life that feels worth being present for.
You can get better than well. This I promise you.
