Psychotherapy: A Place to Be Heard

If you are interested in starting therapy, I suggest we arrange a session to get to know each other. This would be an opportunity for you to talk about your situation and what you are hoping to work on. We can then agree on the next steps.

When you contact me, I will usually try to ensure I have a time available that could work for you every week. Then when we meet, we will already know the options that are available for ongoing sessions, tailored to your needs.

I am also happy to speak on the phone, and if I can't answer your call immediately, you can leave a message in complete confidence, and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

Whilst many people prefer to see me in person for therapy, I realize this isn't always possible. Therefore, I can offer online sessions if that suits you better. If you do see me in person, you can also have occasional online sessions during the weeks when you can’t manage to attend in person.

Sessions are every week. 

For individual therapy, sessions are 50 minutes long and my fee is: 

·  Tunbridge Wells - £70 

·  London Bridge - £85 

·  Online - £70 

For couples therapy, sessions last either 60 or 80 minutes and my fee is: 

·  Tunbridge Wells - £85 / £115 

·  London Bridge - £110 / £150 

·  Online - £85 / £115 

My fee increases pro rata if we agree on sessions longer than 80 minutes. 

I am open to negotiating what you pay. If you feel drawn to work with me for counselling, please feel invited to reach out even if you can't afford my full fee. I offer a number of reduced fee places. 

I also accept referrals via health insurance providers such as BUPA, Aviva, Axa, and Vitality.

Anything. It would be rare for me to come across an issue which I feel unable to work with. In the unlikely event that I do not consider myself the right person for you to work with, I will support you in finding a practitioner closely matched to your needs and circumstances.

Here’s a list of some areas I have experience in and am interested in. This list is not exhaustive, and I am genuinely happy to work with anything you would like to bring.

- Anxiety

- Depression

- Family Relationships

- Intimate Relationships

- Sex

- The Erotic

- Gender and identity

- Life transitions

- Men’s work

- Mid-life

- Growing older

- The meaning of life

- Spirituality and religion

- The big questions in life

- Conflict resolution

- Understanding assertiveness

- Why do I keep repeating the same thing again and again?

- What am I avoiding?

- Loving yourself

- Listening to your desires

- Difficult experiences

- Traumatic events (all of us experience trauma on some level) – see quote below

- How to make decisions

- How do I know what I know?

Psychotherapy includes Counselling. Typically a Counsellor will have a shorter training than a Psychotherapist. Counselling might be focussed on a specific event or life transition and once that has been looked at it might make sense to stop. Psychotherapy can do this but it is also an opportunity to go much deeper and to hopefully get to the root of things. An analogy I like is that Counselling (or Coaching or CBT among other disciplines) might focus on redecorating a room or perhaps several rooms whereas Psychotherapy might go beyond this and look at rebuilding your house, exploring what is happening with the foundations or in the basement and finding the hidden problems with the pipes and wiring. Psychotherapy is not about wallpapering over the cracks but trying to get to their causes and rebuilding the foundations and replastering the wall before redecorating.