What is counselling for?
It’s for your health and well-being. Whatever you are bringing, counselling can provide the necessary support and guidance to help you make positive changes. This could mean breaking problematic behaviour cycles, challenging limiting beliefs, or resolving inner conflicts to allow you to feel more whole and together. Developing a trusting relationship with your therapist you can carefully explore and learn to manage emotions.
Whatever you are caught up in, carefully unpicking things and developing self-regulation skills, you can have a healthy balance of emotions and you can, overall, have a good time on this planet.
We aim to get you out of a rut so that you can realise your potential. Please read this leaflet for further information.
How do you deliver counselling?
– Online (using Google Meet, WhatsApp or a different app)
– Telephone Sessions
– Email therapy
– In-person (at The Practice Rooms in Richmond)
– Home visits (please contact me to discuss this option)
How do I get started?
Get in touch and I will arrange for an introductory assessment session. Click here to find out How to Start.
What is Email Therapy?
Some people find it easier to express themselves through writing, rather than talking face to face or over the phone. Email therapy allows you to take however long you need to articulate what you need to say. I will spend one hour reading your email and writing my therapeutic response. You will receive my response before the end of the next working day. If you prefer, this can be done using ProtonMail (encrypted email service).
What can you help with?
Addiction, ADHD, anger, anxiety, ASD, assertiveness, attachment issues, avoidance, bereavement, boundaries, coping, depression, disordered eating, guilt, grief, (sense of) identity, integration, life transitions, loneliness, loss, neurodivergence-related difficulties, overwhelm, panic attacks, perfectionism, phobias, procrastination, relationships, self-esteem, self-harm, sexual issues, shame, stress, trauma.
How long is a session?
Sessions last for 50 minutes and are held weekly.
How much does it cost?
Online and telephone sessions cost £50. In-person sessions cost £65. Fees are payable by the day of the session either by bank transfer, card payment or PayPal.
Will what I say be confidential?
Yes, everything you say will be kept confidential. The exception to this rule is if you inform me of an imminent risk of serious harm – this will be explained at the beginning of our first session. Any contact outside of your weekly session will be handled discreetly. I am ICO registered and UK GDPR compliant.
What times can I have sessions?
I offer flexible session times including daytimes and evenings but not weekends.
Cancelling or rescheduling appointments
Sessions can be cancelled free of charge up to 48 hours before your session start time. Where possible I am flexible with rescheduling appointments. If you cancel within 48 hours of a session you will be liable unless there are extenuating circumstances – these will be explained in our first session.
What types of therapy do you use?
Attachment-focused, CBT, experiential, humanistic, IFS, mindfulness, person-centred, psychodynamic, somatic, transpersonal, trauma informed.
Who do you work with?
Adults, Older adults, Young people.
If you have any other questions please contact me.