Your first meeting with me is the most important event! If you’ve never been to see a counsellor or therapist before, it may well mark a major break with your past life. Maybe you’ve finally decided to ‘fess up’ on yourself: you know something’s wrong, and maybe it’s been wrong for a very long time.

However you might feel about coming to see someone like me, you’ll be sure of an empathic and non-judgmental approach.

The first meeting is free, and will last anything from 50 minutes to an hour and a quarter. The main purpose of it is for you to

• begin to tell me your story,
• get a sense of me

and for me to get a sense of what might be a suitable approach for you.

Essentially, that approach will fall into one of three areas:

Brief Therapeutic intervention
(1-5 sessions)

Shorter-term counselling or coaching
(5-12 sessions)

Long-term psychotherapy
(13+ sessions)