Individual Counselling

Therapy works best when there is a good ‘therapeutic alliance’ between a therapist and client. I believe it is important that my clients feel happy to work with me, and equally, I feel I have the right skill set to ensure a client gets the best results and value for money out of the work.

This fit is something we can jointly determine in an initial session.

Initial Session

The initial individual session will be 50 minutes long, and charged at my usual fee.

I start with some admin questions (including your address, DOB, and the details of your doctor),  to ensure I have all the background information to continue working together.  I will then ask you about what brings you to therapy.

Towards the end of the session, we will agree together if we are happy to work together, what outcome of the therapy we will concentrate on, and if the work should be short-term (ten sessions), long-term (six months to one year), or open-ended.

Couples Counselling

Sometimes relationships get stuck, or someone gets hurt and it becomes hard to talk without fighting. When working with couples, I offer a safe, impartial space to work through issues, to talk, hear, and be heard.

Couples counselling is not about taking sides, making judgments, or attributing blame.  Instead, I make myself available to facilitate conversation and offer both parties an equal opportunity to discuss what is wrong, what brought you to this place, what you will do differently if you decide to move forward and stay together.

Important: If you or your partner are very unsure if you want to remain in your relationship, I suggest individual counselling for that person first before starting couples work. Counselling with couples requires both parties to work towards healing. Furthermore, where there is active domestic abuse or violence occurring in the relationship, I will not work with both members of the relationship in the room at the same time. I recommend that the perpetrator of the abuse contacts me for individual counselling.

Initial Session

In couples work, you will learn to understand and communicate your feelings and needs more clearly, without ending up in arguments. You will learn to listen to your partner and hear how they feel and what they need from you to make the relationship better.

I offer couples the option of on-going counselling in 60-min weekly sessions (usually six to twelve sessions are required) or an intense 120-min recovery session to get to the heart of the issue and kick start change.

There is no one size fits all, if you may prefer to methodically work through your relationship issues then weekly sessions may suit you best (please note: one 60-min session is not enough time to do the work required).

If you are feeling overwhelmed by the issues you are facing, then an intense 120-minute recovery session might be best, followed by some ongoing hourly sessions, although for some just one 120-min session is enough.