FAQs

Sessions are 50 minutes, otherwise known as the “therapeutic hour”. We will meet at the same time each week, although I can sometimes offer an alternative time slot if needed. If you have a health condition which means longer sessions are difficult for you, then please reach out and I’d be more than happy to discuss adjustments.

All sessions are £70, including the first assessment session. Before this, I offer a free 20 minute chat on the phone or Zoom to give you the opportunity to ask me questions and get a sense of if you’d like to go ahead and book an assessment session.

There’s no one size fits all answer to this question. At the beginning of therapy, I’ll get a sense from you about why you are seeking therapy and what you are hoping to gain from coming to sessions. We can review this throughout our work together, and of course, as life changes, our goals for ourselves may change over time. If you are wanting to look at one particular challenge you are facing at the moment, then you might find short-term work of 8-12 sessions is enough. Generally, deeper building of awareness, and healing long-held patterns in your life will take longer.

The first session is a bit different to the rest of therapy, as this is when I’ll seek to understand more about what brings you to therapy, what you are hoping to get out of it, alongside some of your background and history. This is also a chance for us to assess if I am the right therapist for you. If I think you might be better receiving support from an alternative therapist, for example, a specialist in a particular field, then I will seek to refer you on to another practitioner.

Sometimes it comes down to personal preference. There are lots of therapeutic benefits to building an in-person therapeutic relationship. Some people find carving out space in their day and physically travelling to and from therapy offers them space to process and reflect. On the other hand, working online can be the difference between being able to access therapy or not if you have to fit it in around your busy life, and a lot of great therapeutic benefit can come from working online - including that for some people, they feel more open with someone they haven’t met in person. I’d always recommend if working online that you give yourself a little time to process and decompress afterwards wherever possible, and you’ll also need to make sure you have a confidential, private space to do your therapy in.