What happens when you contact me?
If you feel counselling, relationship counselling, or life coaching may be helpful for you do please contact me by either telephone or email. We will then arrange an initial meeting where you will have the opportunity to share the issues concerning you and for us to decide together if counselling or coaching is the right form of help for you.
What will happen at the inital meeting?
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I make every effort to provide you with a friendly, comfortable, confidential environment to help you relax and feel safe in sharing what is bothering you. I will help you to look at what you are hoping to get from counselling and how we can best work together to enable you to achieve this.
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There will be time for you to ask any questions you may have of me and how the process works.
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Arrangements would then be made for us to meet on a regular basis, usually at the same time each week. The number of session required will discussed at our first meeting. I am not be able to offer sessions less than weekly after 6pm.
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How long does it last?
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Each counselling or coaching session lasts for up to an hour. Many issues can be resolved in short term work, whilst others may require longer term therapy. We will discuss this at the inital meeting.
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Will everything I say confidential?
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Everything discussed between us is kept strictly confidential. There may be an exception to this if I believed that someone was at risk of serious harm. This will also be covered at our first meeting.
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What if I decide I want to ending my counselling?
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Counselling can involve accessing painful feelings and it is possible if this happens that you may begin to feel that counselling is not helping you. Should this be the case I would encourage you to come and talk to me about these feelings and not to end suddenly. How we end our working together can be an important to the counselling process.
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When it feels right to end our sessions together we will discuss how best to work towards an ending. Should you suddenly decide or be unable to continue I would ask one week’s notice to avoid payment of my fee.
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What if I need to cancel a session?
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If you need to cancel a session for whatever reason I ask for one week’s notice in order to avoid payment of my fee.
