I practice from home, which ensures you have a quiet, private space for us to explore your experiences. I make the room very welcoming and comfortable, and have had many positive comments that this helps to lessen any nervous feelings in a first session!

Individual sessions last 50 minutes to an hour. Couple counselling and supervision sessions may be up to 90 minutes long.

Weekly sessions are often most effective in terms of building an effective therapeutic relationship, which in turn makes a positive outcome for the counselling process more likely. However, if weekly sessions don’t feel possible for you, we can meet fortnightly.

In our initial session I will discuss my confidentiality, ethics, payment, bookings and cancellation policies with you. If we then decide to work together, this will ensure we can do so within safe and clear boundaries. We can talk through anything you disagree with, want to change, or don’t understand.

We can discuss this in your first session – it may be that you have a particular number of sessions in mind, or you may prefer to see how you feel as we progress through our sessions. I am happy to work on a short-term or open-ended basis. We can review your progress as we go along. It is also really important that we work towards an ending, and that counselling doesn’t end abruptly.

There are numerous different counselling theories, the main schools being Person-Centred, Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavourial Therapy. I chose to train in Integrative Counselling because I don’t believe that any one theory can hold the key to all our complexities. In a nutshell, it means that my training covered various different approaches – which allows me to draw from many different approaches and ideas in my work.