Frequently Asked Questions

I work in Hove, Shoreham and online in both a face to face and online capacity.    

Please contact me for further information about fees.   I have one low-cost place so do contact me if you'd like to go on the waiting list for this.   I charge for our intial session upfront; thereafter you are welcome to pay for each sesison on the day, or be invoiced at the end of the month.  

That’s ok and pretty normal.  You are welcome to arrange a phone call to ask me any questions before you decide to book an initial session.  If you decide to meet me, I like to use the first two sessions for an assessment, to explore your needs and from this to form a plan for our way forward.   At this point we can also decide whether you are coming for a limited period or for something more open-ended.     I prefer to work with you weekly, especially if you come for EMDR.  

That’s completely understandable and this will become clearer during our initial consultation.    As a general rule, all three psychotherapies, (Relational Integrative Psychotherapy, Music Imagery Psychotherapy and EMDR) are powerful standalone treatments.  If you come for counselling you do not need to have EMDR.   Any EMDR processing which we plan will be carefully integrated into standard psychotherapy to ensure it is appropriate and effective.   If you come purely for EMDR this can be planned and delivered appropriately according to your needs on a shorter-term basis.   I do not offer fortnightly EMDR sessions.  My strong ethical framework, commitment to working for your best interests ensures that whichever bespoke combination of psychotherapies you choose, will work powerfully for you.  

Due to the rental agreements I have signed, I require a minimum of five days’ notice if you need to cancel a session; otherwise the full fee will be payable.  I take up to 7 weeks’ holiday per year, and you can also have up to three weeks off (holidays etc) per year without charge.   This means that normally we work for about 42 weeks per year.   This will be discussed with you in our early sessions.  

Once we have decided to work together I ask you to sign a standard agreement which states the following:

• Length, frequency of sessions, and ways to benefit the most from your sessions
• Considerations around online working.
• Cancellation terms
• Confidentiality
• Holiday notice periods
• GDPR (how I store legally store information).
• Complaints procedures

Generally, people find it immensely helpful for all these to be laid out at the beginning of our work together.  

I am a highly trained and extremely experienced psychotherapist, accredited with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and the government body the Health and Care Professions’ Council (HCPC).  This means that I have committed to the highest ethical standards; not only to regular supervision professional development activities but also to abide by these bodies’ ethical frameworks.   This ensures your needs always remain at the heart of our work together.   To this end, we have regular reviews where your input, feedback forms part of how we move forward into to keep things on track.