Therapy fees

The first therapy session is an assessment, lasting up to 90 minutes and costs £230 for private individuals (insurance companies duration and costs vary). Sessions thereafter are usually 50 minutes and cost £135 for private individuals.

For some therapies (for example, EMDR) additional time is sometimes helpful and on these occasions, additional time will be charged pro-rata to the cost of a single session (rate of, £135/50 minutes).

Payment

Payment can be made by cash on the day of the session or by BACs (bank transfer) 24 hours prior to the sessions.

Please note that cancellations of appointments with less than 24 hours notice will be charged for at the full rate.

Health Insurance

If you want to use health insurance to fund the sessions, I will need your policy number and claim number to proceed.

I am registered with many health insurance companies, including, APA-PPP, Aviva, BUPA, Cigna, Simply Health, to name a few.

What to expect?

The assessment

The first session is an assessment and this usually follows the format of, firstly, identifying what bought you to therapy, the symptoms you are experiencing, what you understand as the lead up to the problems, how are you coping, a little bit about you, a brief synopsis of your life till now, including any past traumas, losses or events. We will take some subjective measures about your symptoms. We will plan to have some goals for therapy by the end of this session, to ensure. Some idea of the therapy interventions will also be discussed.

Sessions

The sessions are individualised and collaborative with the client. The client is in control of what happens. The sessions will be interactive, with learning about the symptoms being experienced and learning additional coping strategies to manage and work towards overcoming the negative symptoms.