I’m currently only available on a Monday, but I can be flexible with the time depending on what works for you!

I take confidentiality seriously and I won’t share anything you share with me in session, up to a point. There are some instances where I might need to share what you’ve told me with a third party to keep you or someone else safe.

I go over the exceptions to confidentiality in my contract, which we would go over in your first session.

At the beginning of your first session I’ll talk a bit about how I work and go through my counselling contract with you. This document details what you can expect from me as your counsellor, along with some of the practical bits (eg. payment, scheduling, cancellations).

Once you’re happy that you understand the contract, and if you would like to go ahead with counselling, we’ll both sign to state our agreement.

Then I’ll ask a little bit about what’s brought you to counselling at this point in your life and we can begin considering what might be useful for us to focus on in our early sessions.

At this point, you’re still just getting to know me! So there’s no expectation that you share more than you’re comfortable with.

At the end of the first session we can speak about scheduling in a next session, or you can take some time to think about if it feels like the right fit first!

Person Centred Counselling is a type of counselling devised by Carl Rogers and his team at the University of Chicago in the 1950s. They used newly invented audio recording technology to record their sessions with clients and identify what was helpful for clients growth and what was not.

Since then person centred counselling has grown and developed in many different directions and different practitioners may practice quite differently.

Fundamentally, I take the view that you as the client are the expert on your life and I’m not here to tell you what to do. I hope to create a therapeutic relationship where you feel like you can explore what’s bothering you in a non-judgmental space.