Counselling can be helpful at many points in your life. It is suitable for deeply entrenched and troubling emotional problems, as well as less chronic distress, such as negotiating life stages and painful events.

You may wish to overcome some barriers to reaching your potential, or you may feel in a crises, desperate for help to cope with debilitating thoughts and feelings. Counselling can be tailored to meet both needs and can often be transformational in its impact.

Short Term Counselling

Short term therapy is usually limited in its focus to a specific issue/ issues. While you can come for as few or as many sessions as you wish, we will need to discuss and agree duration at the outset. Fewer than 6 sessions is unlikely to be helpful however.

Long Term/ Open Ended Therapy

In longer term counselling we build on the foundations of our relationship to work at greater depth. Time is needed to fully unpack and understand all the factors contributing to your emotional distress but crucially, also to develop the sense of safety and trust in our relationship required for deeper work. Longer term work is sometimes needed to help with more entrenched emotional states and to bring about profound lasting change.

Single Session Counselling

There are times when you might need a one off space to work through a specific issue or dilemma. You may have a big decision like starting a family or changing job. You may need space to unpack a specific issue that’s been troubling you or thinking through a dilemma. You may want to work on your personal development but not sure about counselling and want to experience the process for yourself. Single sessions are longer than a standard session. We will have 90 minutes together to allow plenty of time to Introduce the issue, contextualise, explain key concern and agree the focus. Explore thoughts, feelings, alternative perspectives and any barriers to change. End by reflecting on your learning, your hopes and fears, with some new ideas and tools for next steps.

Single session counselling can be either face to face or online, depending on availability. A single session can be life changing but it isn’t right for everyone. A careful assessment is made before our first meeting to ensure your safety and suitability. I will send you a form to help me understand your needs and strengths.

Getting Started

• With all counselling the first step is an initial consultation, where I will find out more about you and we can both decide if further counselling with me would be right for you. At this stage we will establish your aims and I will explain the contract. Once you contact me I will usually respond within 24 hours. The initial consultation can be within a week, (depending on your availability). The session fee is the same for the initial consultation and lasts 50 minutes.