Looking for counselling or psychotherapy?

Seeking therapy can feel daunting. It’s important to find someone you feel comfortable with – someone you can ask questions of or say, ‘that doesn’t feel right’; someone you can sit in silence with; someone who is deeply interested in you and your experience of the world.

If you’d like to see whether I’m that person, the first step is for us to meet for an initial consultation. I offer a calm, confidential space where we can get to know each other, uninterrupted. You can find out more about me here.

If we both feel that the first session has gone well, we can arrange a time to meet regularly, usually for 50 minutes a week. We might agree to meet for a short time (6-12 sessions), a longer time (6 months to a year), or without any fixed ending.

My training and way of working is integrative, which means that I draw on different ways of understanding human experience to find an approach that works best for you. You might have heard of some of these before – person-centred, existential, psychodynamic, or body psychotherapy, for example – or you might not. 

Either way, the most important thing to know is that I will be guided by your experience of the world and the relationship between us. My role is not to provide a diagnosis or give you solutions but to help you to re-connect with your own feelings, desires and intuitions, in all their messy glory – to find your way back to yourself. In doing so, we might explore dreams, drawings, music, writing, bodily sensations, or anything else that feels useful.

For more information about counselling and psychotherapy (the two words are often used interchangeably) and how to make the most of it, take a look at the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy’s guide, Thinking about therapy?