First Step: An initial assessment meeting is arranged between us in order to explore what may be helpful before any recommendation of an appropriate nature is offered.

Sometimes the insight gained in this initial assessment may provide you with enough help for the time being. The assesssment may also serve as a holding process during a time of crisis until on-going therapy can be arranged.

However, between us we may come to a joint decision that a further assessment session may be desirable, or an intervention of an alternative nature may be considered.

Brief counselling: is usually 6-12 weekly sessions of fifty minutes to help people to think with their therapist about their problems and consider new ways of tackling them. This is likely to involve a degree of both a psychodynamic and cognitive approach.

On-going counselling: is likely to be either once or twice weekly sessions of fifty minutes but is more in depth than brief counselling.

Psychotherapy: will be more in depth still, offering anything from once to four times weekly sessions, also of fifty minutes duration. This demands a degree of committment from both the therapist and client and may take place over a period of several years. It is often considered to be both a life changing and life enhancing experience.