FAQs

Counselling and psychotherapy fees can vary across individual practitioners or services.

My fee is £55 per 50 minute individual counselling session.

Couples counselling is charged at £80 per 60 minute session.

The full fee is applicable if a session is cancelled with less than 24 hours notice.

There is no set limit or recomendation. Everyone is different and progressess at their own rate. Counselling can range from only a few sessions to several months or for some people, years.

We will discuss in your consultation session what your needs are, developing an insight as to how long we might work together.

I am a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), I am therfore bound by the BACP’s ethical framework for good practice.
Our sessions are confidential between you and I. You may choose to tell others about your sessions but I do not disclose information about what you bring me to other people.
As part of my ethical and legal requirement I attend supervision to monitor my practice and review safeguarding. I will sometimes need to discuss my cases with my supervisor but clients remain anonymous throughout.
In circumstances such as immediate or serious risk to my clients life, a child’s safety or disclosure of acts of terrorism (1989) I am required to make contact with an appropriate third party in order to help safeguard the individual concerned. Any such concerns I may have are discussed with you before hand

In short, counselling could be considered to be shorter term work, with psychotherapy being the term applied to more in-depth longer term therapy.
The two terms are interchangeable as in both instances I would be working to the same end goal, to ensure that person sat in front of me has a safe space to unpack themselves, to help a person master changes, adapt to new ways of being, understand and let go of, unhelpful characteristics.