​Clients contact me when something in their way of being in the world is not working well for them, and they are experiencing difficulties in their lives, which may include low mood, anxiety, bullying, abuse, relationship and/or family issues, glass children (siblings of children with additional needs), marital breakdown, chronic and unexplained medical illness, neurodiversity and trauma. I offer an initial, free, no obligation telephone consultation to think together about your concerns, a little bit about how we can work together and my fees. 

 

​The first session

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The first session is an opportunity for you to see how it feels to sit with me, to begin to talk about what is going on for you and to experience a therapeutic relationship. It’s a conversation where you can let me know what you are hoping for and we can see whether it is a good match. I offer a calm, compassionate and confidential space, where you can feel safe to explore what is happening for you without judgment.  

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The process

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I work flexibly according to your needs and what we agree. Therapy is co-constructed, meaning we build our therapeutic relationship around your needs, and the therapeutic process opens the possibility to bring greater compassion and acceptance into your being, to move towards healing, resilience and clarity.  Depending on your needs and our discussions, we may agree to working with no fixed end point, or for a fixed number of sessions.  We review and evaluate your therapeutic journey together to ensure that it continues to be helpful and supportive. Sessions take place in my consulting room (pictured above), or on-line and last 50 minutes and we meet weekly. For sessions with adolescents, we may agree to a combination of parent and adolescent sessions and perhaps some joint sessions.

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Endings

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Experience tells me that my clients know when they are ready to bring their therapeutic journey to a close and we plan the ending together. In a final session, we may talk about what is different today from the first session, and how you understand yourself now. It’s a time to honour the changes you experienced and made and the meaning of ending your therapeutic relationship with me. Clients sometimes choose to return to therapy at specific moments in life, getting married, bereavement, a dilemma, becoming a parent, a difficult separation or divorce. It is an important tenet of therapy that you are welcome to return if you choose to do so.

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Fees, insurance, payment and cancellations 

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Fees are payable at the end of each session, in cash or by bank transfer. If insurance is covering your sessions, then I will provide receipts so that you can claim back directly from your insurer. I am a registered service provider with BUPA, AXA-PPP, Vitality and WPA. I offer limited number of reduced fee sessions, and we can discuss fees in our initial phone-call. The full fee is payable for all missed sessions. If you need to cancel a session, please give me at least 2 days notice, so that I can offer an alternate session in the same week if possible.