MY QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
HOW IT WORKS
BEFORE WE MEET
If you are considering starting sessions, I offer a free initial phone call for 20 minutes, to see how we might work together. This will give you an opportunity to ask me any questions and see if I am the right therapist for you and for me to establish whether I will be able to work with you. Sometimes, I might not be able to work with you because I already work with someone else in your life, or because I don't feel I am the best therapist to meet your needs.
If we agree to meet, I will email you a contract, and agree a time and date for a first 50 minute session.
THE FIRST SESSION
I practice from a beautiful, comfortable and private room at Renelec House in central Devizes. It has been designed for psychotherapy, and offers a quiet and private environment for our work, with toilets available. I provide water, and you are welcome to bring a hot drink. I have designed I to feel safe and cosy, with wide comfy chairs and blankets. I will meet you in the reception area, and show you to my room on the ground floor, with 4 steps to access it.
In the first session, I will introduce myself, explain my confidentiality policy, and then invite you to share what has brought you to therapy. Towards the end of the session, we will agree whether we want to continue to work together. Sometimes you might not feel I am the right therapist for you, or I might believe a different type of therapy would work better for you. In this case, I will refer you to another therapist where possible.
If you decide you would like to continue to work with me, sessions will continue weekly, usually at the same time each week. I don't offer fortnightly or monthly sessions, as I believe the best experience of therapy is in weekly sessions. I suggest we review after 6 sessions, and if you want to continue, this will be until you are ready to stop.
My fee is £65 per session, which is payable by bank transfer afterwards, or by card in the room. Please contact me to discuss how I work with companies paying for therapy for an employee.
I am able to work with clients who are registered with insurers Aviva, AXA and VitalityHealth.
HOW WILL SESSIONS GO?
I work integratively, which means I have a range of psychotherapy theories available to me. I draw mainly on relational humanistic theories, with my client at the centre of my work. The relationship we co-create acts as a foundation for healing. I provide a safe space for you to share your story and for us to explore it without judgement. I work with empathy and compassion, and I believe that the connection we make can be supportive and healing.
I work with you holistically, to understand how you have come to this place in your life, and what you hope for from therapy with me. I will support you to explore your own experience of the world, and the way you have come to be. I work with physical communications as well as emotional ones, and with my own experience of being with you.
Your inner world and your relationship with yourself is an important part of therapy, and I often draw on medtaion and mindfulness techniques to support you.
ONLINE WORK
Sometimes we may agree to work together online, or you may need to have an occasional session online. In this case, I will send you a Zoom link in advance. If we are working online, please ensure you are in a quiet, well connected space where you won't be interrupted, and you feel safe to talk. Please feel free to bring a drink.
