Counselling
& Psychotherapy
What happens when you contact us?
Entering Psychotherapy or Counselling is a significant step in anyone's life and may be a new experience for you. You may find it helpful to consider these points:
- People seeking help can be referred by their GP or other concerned professional, or may make contact directly themselves.
- An initial appointment will be offered, usually within a week, if there is a vacancy in the practice. This is an introductory meeting, lasting about 60 minutes, providing opportunity to meet the therapist and to jointly assess, whether therapy or counselling may be useful at this time; or whether some other form of help would be appropriate.
- Where appropriate, psychotherapy (or counselling) will be offered to you. But if we feel, after careful discussion together, that these would not be appropriate at the moment, other forms of help can be considered and discussed together, and a next step identified.
- Clients will usually arrange to attend for one session per week and, if possible, be arranged for the same time each week. This regularity may hopefully enhance the experience of emotional containment and 'holding'. The sessions last for one hour.