The Holding Space
I welcome and invite you to a regular held space where you can bring all of yourself as you are, wherever you are at, with whatever you are feeling and are faced with in your life at this present time.
I offer a heartfull commitment on my part to listen to and explore with you the issues you wish to work with. My approach is focused on being present with what is figural for you right now. Our collaboration is a co-creation and I seek to work with compassion and respect in an inclusive and non-discriminatory way. I welcome the opportunity to work with people from a wide range of economic and cultural backgrounds, gender and sexual diversity. All are welcome.
What happens when we first meet?
In our first session we will typically explore what has brought you to seek counselling and what you are looking to achieve. You may want help with feelings of alienation, anxiety, stress or panic, bereavement, depression, a personal crisis, abuse or conflict, or it might be less clear what the difficulty is, such as feeling stuck, out of control, unable to make decisions or cope with life changes. You can ask any questions you have as you decide if counselling is what you require at this moment and if I am the right counsellor for you.
What are my fees?
I specifically choose to offer affordable fees to enable the possibility of working with a wide variety of clients and to facilitate working together on a long term basis.
My rates are:
Outdoors, in a variety of parks, woodlands and other open spaces in London:
£60 for an hour long session
Online, via GoogleMeet:
£60 for an hour long session
Indoors, at Borough House, London, SE1 1LL:
£75 for a 50 minute session
A Mindful Dying Experience, in person or online:
£60 for an hour long session, £100 for a 2 hour session
Supervision for qualified therapists and counselling trainees, outdoors and online:
£70 for an hour long session, £100 for a 90 minute session, £120 for a 2 hour session
Long Term/Short Term
I offer both long term and short term counselling. You may wish to explore specific issues or to deepen your connection with who you are and discover more about why you do the things you do and your innate potential for change, growth and creativity.
In-Person Counselling and making use of an AI Chatbot
Therapeutic AI Chatbot's such as Wysa and Woebot provide 24/7 on-demand support. They are rooted in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and can help users reframe negative thought patterns associated with depression and anxiety. They offer tools, strategies and techniques, insights, check-ins and mood tracking. They simulate human conversation using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs).
Working in-person with a counsellor, you will be met with empathy and an emotionally heart-centred responsivity with a qualified professional who will pick-up your non-verbal cues and hold your distress, suffering and pain with kindness and compassion.
Making use of an AI Chatbot can bring near-immediate assistance to someone experiencing a panic attack in the same way as we take a pill to relieve the symptoms of a headache. A counsellor is trained to focus on underlying causes and to be in relationship with you in a state of attentive presence and curiousity. We provide a warm and caring holding environment in which holistic psychological wellbeing is nurtured.
When, the currently hypothetical, AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) arrives in the coming years, it is likely to offer a far greater scope of online and robotic therapeutic responses and support and I will then, most likely, be taking off my counselling hat to go find other ways to fill my days.
Confidentiality
Counselling sessions are confidential with the exception of matters concerning safety and professional requirements and I would discuss these with you. I receive on-going supervision, which is standard practice for all counsellors and psychotherapists, in which I discuss my work whilst not divulging identity. Any information such as your personal details will be stored securely in accordance with the requirements stipulated by GDPR legislation. With regard to outdoor therapy sessions, we will need to agree how to deal with occasionally encountering other people when we are outdoors.
I offer a heartfull commitment on my part to listen to and explore with you the issues you wish to work with. My approach is focused on being present with what is figural for you right now. Our collaboration is a co-creation and I seek to work with compassion and respect in an inclusive and non-discriminatory way. I welcome the opportunity to work with people from a wide range of economic and cultural backgrounds, gender and sexual diversity. All are welcome.
What happens when we first meet?
In our first session we will typically explore what has brought you to seek counselling and what you are looking to achieve. You may want help with feelings of alienation, anxiety, stress or panic, bereavement, depression, a personal crisis, abuse or conflict, or it might be less clear what the difficulty is, such as feeling stuck, out of control, unable to make decisions or cope with life changes. You can ask any questions you have as you decide if counselling is what you require at this moment and if I am the right counsellor for you.
What are my fees?
I specifically choose to offer affordable fees to enable the possibility of working with a wide variety of clients and to facilitate working together on a long term basis.
My rates are:
Outdoors, in a variety of parks, woodlands and other open spaces in London:
£60 for an hour long session
Online, via GoogleMeet:
£60 for an hour long session
Indoors, at Borough House, London, SE1 1LL:
£75 for a 50 minute session
A Mindful Dying Experience, in person or online:
£60 for an hour long session, £100 for a 2 hour session
Supervision for qualified therapists and counselling trainees, outdoors and online:
£70 for an hour long session, £100 for a 90 minute session, £120 for a 2 hour session
Long Term/Short Term
I offer both long term and short term counselling. You may wish to explore specific issues or to deepen your connection with who you are and discover more about why you do the things you do and your innate potential for change, growth and creativity.
In-Person Counselling and making use of an AI Chatbot
Therapeutic AI Chatbot's such as Wysa and Woebot provide 24/7 on-demand support. They are rooted in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and can help users reframe negative thought patterns associated with depression and anxiety. They offer tools, strategies and techniques, insights, check-ins and mood tracking. They simulate human conversation using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs).
Working in-person with a counsellor, you will be met with empathy and an emotionally heart-centred responsivity with a qualified professional who will pick-up your non-verbal cues and hold your distress, suffering and pain with kindness and compassion.
Making use of an AI Chatbot can bring near-immediate assistance to someone experiencing a panic attack in the same way as we take a pill to relieve the symptoms of a headache. A counsellor is trained to focus on underlying causes and to be in relationship with you in a state of attentive presence and curiousity. We provide a warm and caring holding environment in which holistic psychological wellbeing is nurtured.
When, the currently hypothetical, AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) arrives in the coming years, it is likely to offer a far greater scope of online and robotic therapeutic responses and support and I will then, most likely, be taking off my counselling hat to go find other ways to fill my days.
Confidentiality
Counselling sessions are confidential with the exception of matters concerning safety and professional requirements and I would discuss these with you. I receive on-going supervision, which is standard practice for all counsellors and psychotherapists, in which I discuss my work whilst not divulging identity. Any information such as your personal details will be stored securely in accordance with the requirements stipulated by GDPR legislation. With regard to outdoor therapy sessions, we will need to agree how to deal with occasionally encountering other people when we are outdoors.
