Your first sessions will involve an initial assessment gathering information to help me learn more about you, your current support, and your experiences. This will also include questions that screen for self-harm and risk of suicide to ensure that we can create a safety plan together if required. Additionally, you use my booking system here to book and pay for all sessions in advance. Alternatively, I offer block booking discounts in my website shop here.
If that’s the case, then Solution Focused Brief Therapy may be the most suited to you and your needs. Brief therapy is often used as a term for therapy delivered in under 24 sessions.
A therapy that focuses on your future instead of unpicking your problem and venturing deep into past events or emotions. Rather than exploring why something has happened, we look at how things can change in a way that demonstrates that you are coping better. The therapist asks lots of questions using your language, and often, clients feel like they have experienced a “real workout” after a session.
You can review a huge collection of research on solution focused brief therapy spanning many years, including the very latest research here.
A variety of psychological challenges, such as anxiety and depression to help improve quality of life and coping mechanisms.
First, we will review our therapeutic contract. This is sent to you automatically when you book your first session so you can read through it before we meet. We will also go through some questions that help us both to understand a little more about what challenges you are experiencing, including discussing self-harm and previous support.
We will establish in great detail what specific goals you have for our working together. Don’t worry if you do not know the answer right now. This is something we can work on together. We explore your strengths and consider ideas for the future. Sometimes, this takes us more than one session to complete. Together, we will decide if it would be useful to talk about how we humans can get caught up in the loop of unwanted behaviour patterns.
Each session has a loose structure designed to encourage you to notice improvements, identify your strengths, and be curious about ideas you may have in mind that might help you to know that you are making further improvements.
16 – 24 dependent on the complexity of challenges.
Ideally, sessions will be weekly at first, moving to fortnightly as you gain confidence. As time progresses, we will discuss increasing the gaps between each session. Some people choose to have a regular top-up session every few months after they achieve their initial goals.
You can book your free initial consultation by phone using this link.
After that you can book in and pay for your first appointment here. I do offer discounted rates using block bookings here. However, it is always best to attend your first appointment before paying for a block booking so that we can both be sure that our working together is right for you and your needs.