You might see the hourly rate for therapists and align this with the hourly rate advertised on a 40 hour a week corporate job. (Which include paid sick leave, holidays, consistent income and various other perks self employed people don’t have on tap)

If I saw saw 40 clients in a week as therapist, I would be burnt out and ill in under a month!

To ethically take care of myself and my clients I can’t see a high volume of people. My rate reflects both my rich lived experience and extensive training. It also reflects how seriously I take my work. I don’t promise results, but I can promise fertile ground for you to make the changes you need with support.

Working in depth with clients, means I am highly in touch and effected by people’s psyche, life experiences and history.

Relational therapy is an energy exchange, and as deep feeling, highly intuitive person I am very conscious of taking good care of myself in this work so that I can keep doing it in a sustainable way.

Under the current capitalist society we are forced to live in, this means being paid well for the work that I offer clients looking to make desired psychological changes.

Not to give a typical therapisty answer but this isn’t easy to quantify and is very individual! It will depend on your presenting issues, the complexity of what you are bringing to therapy and also how many sessions you can afford. If you have a time limit of sessions in mind, let’s talk about this in our initial consultation as it’s helpful for me to know in shaping your experience of therapy. My aim is to help you get as much of what you need in the time we have.

No I don’t, and this decision is based on years of experience. Weekly therapy is the standard for good reasons and I want you get what you need from the sessions. Having weekly sessions for a shorter period of time might actually be a better decision for you. Weekly therapy, particularly in the beginning, is the most effective for clients wishing to make psychological changes. Fortnightly sessions can often slip into a place of ‘reporting’ what’s been happened in the gap between seeing one another. This doesn’t allow for the depth of work required to make change. When I work with people longer term, we sometimes agree to go to fortnightly sessions while working towards an ending.

Yes I do. I work with AXA, Aviva and WPA. If you are thinking of using your insurance to access therapy with me please let me know in your initial email as I only hold a certain number of slots in my practice for insurance clients.

I don’t work with BUPA. This is because they don’t pay their therapists well.

I do have some slots offered at a lower fee in my practice, however these are taken up for the foreseeable future with long term clients.