My private practice is small - I currently offer sessions on Monday and Thursday evenings.

I charge £55 for a session. Each session last for 50 minutes. The cost is the same for zoom and in person sessions.

Often, we listen to respond rather than to fully understand. Well meaning family and friends may want to give advice and may find it difficult to see you expressing difficult emotions such as anger and sadness.  They may find it challenging to be impartial. You may feel worried about upsetting them by fully sharing with them your current situation and feelings.  In the therapy space you are free to explore fully your feelings, thoughts and behaviours and see where this takes you.  

There is no firm agreement on where counselling stops and psychotherapy begins. Counselling tends to involve short term work where the primary function is to provide you with a space to be heard. Psychotherapy tends to be longer term work, often looking more indepth at the connection between your past and your current here-and-now relational patterms. Psychotherapists often have studied to at a deeper level. As my training was in 'Counselling & Psychotherapy' I offer both and call myself a counsellor & psychotherapist often abbreviated to 'therapist' or 'therapy'.

Before therapy can commence I will ask you to review and sign my therapy agreement and provide some personal details.

The agreement outlines how we will work together, payment details, and the limits of confidentiality. You are signing up to 'a way of working together' rather thna a number of sessions. 

In order to ensure we work safely together, in accordance with my professional code of ethics, I collect some personal details from you including your address and GP contact details before starting therapy. I store these safetly and in line with GDPR. 

The first session is an assessment session.  This is a bit more structured than a usual therapy session. I will ask you some questions in order to understand a bit more about you and your difficulties. We will explore what has brought you to therapy and what you are hoping to gain from the sessions. There  will be space to ask me any questions you have about counselling and psychotherapy. This will help me advise you if I am able to provide the help you need.  This session should also help you decide if therapy is the right support for you and if I am the right therapist. There is never any obligation to book further sessions. Like any relationship, for the counselling relationship to work we will need to feel confident we can work with one another.

I would expect you to feel that you are gaining some benefit from therapy after 4-6 sessions. How long you would like to work together will depend on a variety of factors. Some people feel 6-10 sessions is all they require. Other people, perhaps with a more complex history or longer term problems, requiring a psycotherapeutic approach, may need longer period. Some people choose to return to a therapist at various points in their lives for example following a new loss or bereavement. 

I am a relational and integrative therapist. 

As a relational therapist I believe that the relationships we have with ourselves and others, both now and in the past, are very important to our wellbeing and development. 

As an intergrative therapist I use a range of theories and techniques in my practice. You may find just having a space to focus on yourself is a healing experience in itself (person centred approach). For others we will work in other ways to help your self-exploration. This may include; using psychoeducation to understand more about how the body and mind respond in the way they do; exploring the impact of your past on your current functioning and the impact of the unconscious (psychodynamic approach); trying out some specific techniques and exercises to help you find a way through your difficulties (Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, Mindfulness). 

Please see my 'contact' page to send an enquiry or email me at enquiries@clarepricetherapy.co.uk