The initial meeting for which you will be charged might take up to 1,5 hours. It is an opportunity to explore and assess the sense of each other, if this is something that is suited for you in a longer run. It is a chance to feel if we can work together.
Sessions are confidential to the subject of limitations within BACP’s ethical framework to which I subscribe. You can find more info on the BACP website.
Please give me at least 48h notice of cancellation in order for me to reschedule our appointment, possibly if i can within 7 days frame. If not, the fee for missed and not rescheduled appointment will remain chargeable.
It might be difficult or easy to say goodbye to the therapist. It is part of the therapy process. This could be explored before scheduling the last session. I would encourage to think of the ending and let me know you feel you ready tomove on without therapy. For shorter work I would appreciate you to schedule at least one final session. For the longer work, I would invite to plan some additional sessions for the therapy to end.
This involves one or two therapist working in a small group setting. It might be between 6 and 8 people at the same time. It is safe , non-judgmental environment to help individuals develop and increase self awareness in a group dynamics.
I am a person who has traveled and has seen different cultures. As a step-parent i know what it might be like to live in a household where changes happen affecting each and everyone. Having worked in school, i know how important is to have friends around, be with peers or belong to peer groups, to overcome the worries and to stand up for yourself, to be brave and allow to try new ways of being in a wider society. I am not a teacher, nor do I preach. I am more of an interested listener of you. I will try to help explore your feelings, to feel happier about yourself, accept yourself the way you are and be comfortable and stronger with yourself inside. We can explore the anger which can be a powerful energy ( we all experience it time to time). We can identify the love and hate, or happiness and sadness and maybe loneliness or even feeling/being different from other peers. Counselling may be brief, consisting a short series of work. With more complex difficulties i would advise to think of longer commitments to the sessions. We will review the progress together on a regular basis.
Many people prefer to see each other face to face. I totally get that yet some don’t.
You have different options to consider for therapy;