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Individuals: CBT - Psychotherapy - £60:00 per session

Existential / Person Centred Counselling - £ 50:00 per session

Couples: £80:00 per session

Life Coaching : Sessions start at £60:00

Workshop Presentations: Negotiable

Supervision £55

My approach

There are many different models of therapy: I have received training in three main models of therapy. My speciality : Rational-Emotive behaviour Therapy (REBT) / Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT). This process involves me taking a more active directive approach in identifying a client’s dysfunctional thinking, behaviour and emotional responses and self-defeating ideas about specific issues they are facing or their view of life in general, while assisting them to develop more helpful perspectives, goal enhancing beliefs and to make healthy emotional and behavioural changes.

I have received extensive training in and also practice Person Centred Counselling : In this process I extend empathy, unconditional acceptance and congruence. Also the client determines the direction and tempo of therapy, with therapeutic emphasis being placed on the client feeling heard, understood and not judged.

Existential Counselling is the third mode of therapy I have been trained in and is based on the idea that inner conflicts in life come about when we find ourselves confronting the inevitable realities of existence : our fear of endings, our fear of freedom ( and its subsequent responsibilities), our fear of being alone with respect to our internal experiences and our search for meaning. When working existentially I focus less on a client’s past and more on the exploring the choices they need to make in the present and future.

Although I am guided by the aforementioned modes of therapy in my practice, I do not work from a rigid template, acknowledging the fact every individual is unique and so I will tailor my approach to meet the needs of my client.

In clinical supervision I mainly employ the psychotherapeutic or seven eyed model supervision.  With a strong inclination towards using congruence and body awareness.

In counselling and psychotherapy sessions the first session is what I use as an assessment process. Asking clients specific standardised question about eg. their history, relationships and support networks.

In supervision the first session often involves exploring how the therapist works, their expectations and contracting.

Supervision models mainly employed are the psychotherapeutic and seven eyed models of supervision. 

I am trained and open to working with practitioners from a wide range of modalities.

First sessions include exploring how the therapist works, modality, areas of speciality, what are their needs and contracting