Health Psychologist and CBT Therapist
First step: Brief conversation
If you are interested in one-to-one therapy the first step is to have a brief conversation over phone or email. This is an opportunity to provide a brief explanation of the difficulties you are experiencing and the help you are after. This will also give you the opportunity to ask any questions you may have. We will decide together whether booking an assessment would be beneficial. If I do not feel I am the best person to support you at this time, I will make recommendations of another type of treatment.
First session: The assessment session
The first session involves an assessment. Here we aim to develop an understanding of your current difficulties, what factors have contributed to your current difficulties and what you want to change. At the end of the assessment we will discuss what goals you want to achieve in therapy and we will agree how many sessions you might need to meet your goals. I usually agree a block of sessions with the opportunity to extend  if appropriate.
Therapy: What does therapy involve?
My aim for therapy is to help you develop an understanding of what is contributing and maintaining your current difficulties - this often involves understanding the vicious cycles we are stuck in. While therapy will tend to focus on your difficulties in the present moment, we will make links to the past to understand how patterns could have developed. We will agree tasks to do between sessions to develop strategies to manage your difficulties and break out of the vicious cycles we are stuck in.
Therapy practicalities
Sessions will last 50-minutes and most often take place on a weekly basis. I currently offer remote or face-to-face sessions in Haslemere, Surrey. I run my private clinic on Wednesday's between 1pm - 8pm.
Fees
£90 - online
£115 - face-to-face