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Therapy services

Starting counselling is a significant decision, and beginning a new relationship with a counsellor can feel challenging—whether it’s your first time seeking support or you’ve had counselling before. To make this process easier for you, I’ve provided key information below. If you have any additional questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Session Details and Costs

  • Standard session rate: £50 for a 50-minute consultation.

  • Reduced fee slots: I offer a limited number of reduced-fee sessions for those with financial constraints. These slots tend to book quickly but feel free to ask if this applies to you.

  • Discounted block sessions: A block of six sessions is available at a reduced rate of £45 per session.

Session Format

  • All consultations take place in person at my private clinic.

  • Online or phone sessions are also available via Zoom when necessary.

Payment Terms

  • Sessions must be paid in advance.

  • Payments can be made via bank transfer (details provided upon booking).

  • Fees are reviewed annually and may be subject to change, but I aim to maintain consistent rates for existing clients wherever possible.

Booking Your First Appointment
If you’re ready to book a discovery call or an initial consultation, please complete the contact form with your preferred date and time. I’ll respond promptly to arrange your session.

Person centre therapy

Person centre therapy is a psychology therapy developed by Carl roger. This approach encourages the individual to focus on their current subjective understanding. The strength of client-cantered approach puts emphasis on the person. Roger believed that people can self-healing and personal growth. The purpose of Roger’s humanistic therapy is to increase a person’s feelings of self-worth and help a person become more of a fully functioning person.

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Rogers believed the therapists should be warm, genuine, and understanding. The humanistic counsellors see the therapist and client as equal partners so, the client is responsible for their improving, not the therapist. The therapeutic relationship is critical. By employing active listening, compassion and unconditional positivism, the counsellor allows clients to communicate their thoughts and feelings, feel control of this process and without judgmental. 

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Roger’s Core Conditions:

Empathy - empathy allows counsellor to be capable of understanding the client and his world in as deep a way as they can. Empathy requires enormous amounts of effort, concentration, and discipline. An empathic counsellor will be aware to the client’s feelings and can experience the client’s world as if it was their own. This can be extremely difficult to accomplish as it involves intense active listening, not just to the words but to expressed feelings but including NVC.

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Congruence – the ability to be a real or genuine person with the client, the counsellor has no need to act as an expert, to feel superior or to pretend in any way and because of this lack of pretence or superiority, we can encourage the client to seek the truth within himself and thus identify the core of his problem more effectively.

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Unconditional Positive Regard- valuing and respecting the client without any condition regardless of all his problems, feelings, and behaviour, because every unique individual has a right to be accepted for what he is, and to feel safe, even though you may have a different value system to that of the client. The client needs to know that you appreciate him as a person regardless of his behaviour or the attitudes he might be expressing at the time, to feel safe within himself will help the client to explore what he is experiencing without judgemental.

Adler

In “What Life Could Mean to You”, Adler says:” if you ask a man “what is the meaning of life” he perhaps be unable to answer” (page 1) Adler dealing with the questions that occupied each and every one of us: how do we see our self? how do we see the world? What is our place in the world and how do we experience that place? What meaning are we finding in our life? What is the (best) way to get perfection in life? to create our own meaning to life with a practical approach to self-understanding, Adler refers to a wide range of themes common to all aspect in life: school influence, family, adolescent development, feelings of superiority and inferiority, the importance of cooperation, the "problems of work, friendship, love and marriage. The answer for that question is in our actions and there for, to every individual has different meaning of life and all his attitude, movement, ambitions, dreams are interpretation of life and accord with this meaning.

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 "We must make our own lives," Adler writes. "It is our own task, and we are capable of performing it. If something new must be done or something old replaced, no one can do it but ourselves. If life is approached in this way, as a cooperation of independent human beings, there are no limits to the progress of our human civilization."

You just have one way of measuring for these questions: you can value yourself as a person basis of how you face the challenging of day to day life. Adler is focusing in 3 centre areas:

society (how do we treat to others human being)

 work (working for living)

love (marriage and family’s relationship).

5 core tenets of Adlerian theory:

Social embeddedness- We are social beings who want to 'belong' and find our place in the group.

Self-determination and creativity- We are active participants who not only react, but we also act and can change. decide what we will do – we are not victims of ‘drives.’ Therefore, we can change – even if we are powerless to change a situation, we can change our response to it.

Teleology (goal-directedness) - Our behaviour is purposive. Causes usually cannot be changed, but goals can, we always have a choice.

Subjectivity- We cannot be objective about ourselves and our interpretation of experience, we give meaning to life.

 Holism- A part is never understood by itself. A whole is more than the sum of its parts. We always look for patterns into which the details will fit.

Psychodynamic

Psychodynamic therapy is a theory of personality development, a philosophy of human nature, and a method of psychotherapy that focuses on unconscious factors. Psychodynamic puts an emphasis for the first 6 years of life as determinants of the later development of personality.

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The key concepts of this theory focus on the unconscious side of an individual. Things such as a person’s dreams or behaviours may provide a better look into a variety of problems in one’s life. Freud believed that people could be cured by making conscious their unconscious thoughts and motivations, thus gaining insight because unresolved issues during development or repressed trauma.

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The aim/goals of psychoanalysis therapy are trying to join the unconscious and the conscious, finding core issues related to childhood experiences and analysing the unconscious feelings and finding hidden answers to help resolve issues.

Children & Young People

I work with adults, and children aged 10 through to adolescents up to 19 years old. Before beginning therapy, I meet with a parent, foster parent, or main carer for an initial consultation. During this meeting, I gather a detailed history of the child, including information about their family, social networks, and school or college environment. Together, we will discuss your concerns and assess which therapeutic approaches may be most suitable for the child.

The first session is a joint meeting involving myself, the child, and the parent, foster parent, or main carer. During this session, we will discuss the therapy contract to ensure all parties are clear on the expectations. For younger children, I often incorporate creative methods such as play, art materials, play dough, cards, or toys, with a focus on sensitivity and encouragement. Creative methods allow children to feel more comfortable sharing, as it helps them express themselves while maintaining a sense of safety.

For older children and adolescents, while they may prefer to talk, I offer creative methods as an option for self-expression when they feel it’s needed. The priority is to ensure that the child or adolescent feels comfortable and finds the approach that works best for them, helping to build a strong therapeutic relationship and effectively communicate their feelings as we work together.

Online & Telephone Therapy

Some people find online or telephone sessions more convenient and comfortable. To accommodate this, I offer sessions via Zoom, WhatsApp, or telephone.

Your confidentiality and privacy are my top priorities. To ensure a successful session, you will need a quiet, private space where you won’t be interrupted, allowing you to focus fully on the process.

Walk & Talk in Nature Therapy

For some, talking face-to-face in a traditional setting can feel uncomfortable, or they may prefer a different atmosphere for their counselling sessions. That’s why I offer ‘walk and talk therapy’ in nature. Walking side by side can create a more relaxed and informal environment, helping clients feel more at ease, connected, and confident. The calming energy of nature, combined with movement, can also encourage deeper breathing and a greater sense of calm.

On rainy or cold days, I’m happy to provide a hot drink to go and an umbrella to ensure your comfort during the session.

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