What I offer
What I do not offer
IF You might be unhappy but not yet identify why? Or you may simply suspect that there’s more to life than you’re currently experiencing.
OR You sense that you’re suffering from psychological ailments, or maybe you’re weighed down by a diagnosis such as depression, anxiety, mood disorders, abuse – domestic and/or in the workplace – relationship issues such as co-dependency, work-related or life stress OR addictions such as love/sex and food, yet the help you’ve received has fallen short.
OR You sure you have untapped talents & gifts but somehow have not know how to tap into your full potential or move forward in your personal mind-set, career and/or in relationships.
OR You’ve experienced an assortment of the above.
You can read more about my own journey in ‘About Me’ and in my Blog. I understand suffering first-hand. My own personal experience of adversity provided the catalyst for my own therapeutic journey in 2012.
My training as a ‘practitioner researcher’ in Psychology and Counselling is ongoing. I work four days/full time in the English National Health Service (NHS). The rest of the time I hold a small private practice.
There is no simple and straightforward answer to this question. Change does not happen overnight. However it all depends on the client’s goals and wishes from their personal therapy or coaching.
There are times in life when we might need practical help with a particular issues or sign-posting. If that’s your situation, then I offer ‘walk-in/single session‘ slots.
If you believe you might want more sessions to explore particular issues, we would have a pre-session and work collaboratively to establish number of sessions, 4, 6 12 to 18 weekly sessions might be sufficient.
At other times, clients might find out that what actually brought them to therapy was the top of the iceberg and they require more ongoing weekly support on a more long term basis. This will be discussed in the first 2 to 3 consultation sessions.
I do not offer single ad-hoc sessions anymore after having researched personal therapy as part of my Doctoral training and realised first hand with research evidence the power of commitment from both client and therapist.
The key pre-requisite for us working together is a heartfelt willingness, openness and readiness for learning whilst taking full responsibility for the ways you might be thinking or behaving, which might be contributing to your difficulties.
I’d openly encourage you to listen to yourself to find out if my offerings resonate with you personally, since the facilitator/therapist-client relationship is central in clients achieving their goals.
Therapeutic coaching/personal therapy/facilitation
Life/Skills/Career-Coaching
About Spirituality
Spirituality is wrongly equated to religiosity, which it simply isn’t. A scientific definition by Dhar et al. (2011) is “a state of being where an individual is able to deal with day-to-day life in a manner which leads to the realization of one’s full potential; meaning and purpose of life; and happiness from within”.
Scientists Worthington and Aten (2009) defined it further as feeling an affinity with:
1)If you wish to work with me as a personal therapist & Counselling Psychologist, I recommend two to three consultation sessions of 50min each.
The first (and maybe second) sessions will be an initial assessment including a very brief history, unlocking and understanding the reason(s) for you seeking help and determining if we might be a fit.
In the second or third sessions we co-create and co-shape your goals for personal therapy and how I might envision supporting you, including suggested duration. You then get to experience working with me with the various modalities (as appropriate). Most importantly we review your experience, answer any burning questions and agree.
2)If you wish to work with me as a life or career coach, I recommend one or two sessions as above to learn more from you, what you are hoping to get and we work out a plan of what might be best for your support.
3) I currently only work on Zoom. As my clients are from all over the world, I require payment within 12 hours of the booking request to hold your slot and this needs to be made by Revolut. Cancelling terms are 5 working days. I require 48 hours for postponment of slots. There are no refunds within those times.