Therapies Available
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy helps you explore emotional behavioural and relational patterns allowing you to understand the root causes of your challenges using a holistic, integrated approach I tailor our work to suit your individual needs, considering emotional physical and environmental factors, therefore supporting your overall well-being.
Session Format
Relationship Therapy
My integrative approach to relationship therapy provides a safe, supportive space for couples or families to improve their interpersonal connections and romantic relationships. You may foster effective communication skills, express emotions and needs more openly, therefore, creating healthier, more fulfilling relationships.
Session Format
In advance of your first relationship session, I will email some forms for both parties to complete individually and return to me, once these forms have been completed and returned, I will invite you both for your first session where I will carry out a joint assessment. During this assessment I will ask you some questions about your past and current circumstances, what brings you to therapy, what your goals are, and how you think I may be able to help you achieve them. In some cases, it may be beneficial to see both parties individually prior to the initial assessment, this is to ensure the appropriateness, safety and suitability of each client. To enable therapy to be most helpful and effective, relationship sessions will normally be on a weekly or fortnightly basis and a mutually convenient time, this is particularly beneficial during the beginning of therapy while we are establishing the therapeutic relationship. I offer relationship therapy face-to-face, in my therapy room in Old Woking, or Online via the video platform Zoom, both countrywide and globally. Whatever type of therapy you choose the cost and session format are usually the same.
Who Will It Benefit?
Relationship therapy can benefit those who are finding it difficult with communicating with each other finding ways to express themselves and listen to each other. It may help those who are experiencing conflict within their relationships, where arguments are frequent or unresolved. It can help couples who are facing difficult situations such as infidelity, bereavement, stress, or loss of trust, as well as helping those who wish to deepen their connections and build stronger foundations within their relationships.
Walk and Talk Ecotherapy
Walk and talk therapy offers a less formal setting by utilising the benefits of being outside in nature. Combining exercise and therapy can encourage individuals to be more physically active for mental and physical reasons, it can also help confront difficult issues and can enable creative deeper ways of thinking often released by mood improving physical exercise. Walk and talk therapy removes the confines of the therapy room which some find freeing and more conductive to the therapeutic process. Being outside offers benefits in itself; being close to nature, breathing in the fresh air and gentle exercise all of which promotes the release of ‘endorphins’, a naturally occurring hormone designed to alleviate feelings of depression and reduce stress anxiety. I provide traditional counselling and psychotherapy whilst walking or sitting in the beautiful Surry countryside, I am led by my clients preferences, so sitting in the shade or taking a slow amble on the paths is this welcome as a hike around the Surrey Hills. To enable therapy to be most helpful and effective, sessions will normally be on a weekly basis and a mutually convenient time and location.
Walk and Talk Ecotherapy
Walk and talk therapy offers a less formal setting by utilising the benefits of being outside in nature. Combining exercise and therapy can encourage individuals to be more physically active for mental and physical reasons, it can also help confront difficult issues and can enable creative deeper ways of thinking often released by mood improving physical exercise. Walk and talk therapy removes the confines of the therapy room which some find freeing and more conductive to the therapeutic process. Being outside offers benefits in itself; being close to nature, breathing in the fresh air and gentle exercise all of which promotes the release of ‘endorphins’, a naturally occurring hormone designed to alleviate feelings of depression and reduce stress anxiety. I provide traditional counselling and psychotherapy whilst walking or sitting in the beautiful Surry countryside, I am led by my clients preferences, so sitting in the shade or taking a slow amble on the paths is this welcome as a hike around the Surrey Hills. To enable therapy to be most helpful and effective, sessions will normally be on a weekly basis and a mutually convenient time and location.
Online & Telephone Therapy
Online and telephone therapy tends to offer more flexibility as you can access your sessions from anywhere in the world and it does not impose physical barriers or boundaries to accessing therapy. This can be particularly useful if mobility and/ or travel is an issue. You will need access to a device, the Internet, and a quiet confidential space so you are able to speak openly and freely. Many clients have found the process of communicating from their own protected safe space very helpful in itself and say that they find it easier to talk about some things in their own environment, rather than in the therapist’s room. Therefore, online sessions via Zoom have proven to be very helpful and effective addition to how I offer therapy.
Short & Long-Term Therapy
Cost
The Cost Of Individual therapy: £70 per 50-minute session. Payable at least 24hours in advance of the session.
The Cost Of Relationship therapy: £85 per 50-minute session. Payable at least 24hours in advance. (It can be helpful to book longer sessions when there is more than one person attending and fees can be discussed depending on length of the session.)
The Cost Of Walk & Talk therapy: £70 per 50-minute session. Payable at least 24hours in advance of the session.
The Cost Of Short-term and Long-Term Therapy: from £70 for individuals & £85 for couples.
The Cost Of Short-term and Long-Term Therapy: from £70 for individuals & £85 for couples.
FAQ's
What is the difference between Counselling and Psychotherapy?
In the UK the terms counselling and psychotherapy are often used interchangeably, but there are some key differences. Counsellors generally help people with specific present-day issues like stress, relationship problems or grief. It’s often short-term and more focused on finding practical solutions. Counselling may be focused around one issue for which you need to gain greater understanding and ways of coping. Psychotherapists tend to work with more complex emotional issues-like long-term behaviour patterns, trauma, or mental health disorders. Therapy is usually longer term and explores the roots of problems. Psychotherapy often focuses on a broader range of issues, the work may include improving self-awareness, understanding experiences and relationships, and how that inform us at a deeper level.
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Get In Touch
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about how therapy works, or to arrange an initial assessment appointment.
I am happy to discuss any queries or questions you may have prior to arranging an initial appointment.
If you would prefer to email directly please feel free.
Other than at weekends all enquiries are usually answered within 24 hours and I look forward to hearing from you.