Frequently asked questions

Integrative Psychotherapy, to me, means I am not limited to one modality when working with you. I incorporate different modalities such as Existential, Psychodynamic, Gestalt and Transactional Analysis. As well as integrating different approaches, I aim to help you to reach more integration within yourself. This could mean the processing of trauma and reaching more awareness about your self.

We will explore in the first session how many months you want to have therapy for. This may be short-term or open-ended, depending on when you feel you have reached a point of good enough healing. I usually recommend an initial commitment of at least 6–8 weeks when focusing on a specific difficulty or area of concern. This allows time to build a therapeutic relationship, and begin meaningful change. For many clients, our work continues on a longer term basis, particularly when exploring childhood experiences, trauma, relational patterns, or deeper emotional processes. Longer term therapy can offer the space needed to process these experiences more fully and support more lasting and sustainable change in the present. Each session, unless discussed otherwise, will last 50 minutes.

In our first consultation, offered free of charge and either face-to-face or online, we will spend 30 minutes exploring your goals and hopes for therapy. This is an opportunity for you to ask any questions you may have about counselling, share what you would like to gain from therapy, and discuss your availability. It is important that you feel comfortable and supported, and that you have the space to decide whether I am the right fit for your needs. If we both feel that we would like to work together, we can then agree on a therapeutic contract, including the length and frequency of sessions, and begin your therapy journey.

I work from different locations in Brighton and Hove. Please let me know in your initial E-mail where you live and I can let you know which of my therapy rooms is closest to you.

The session fee is £90 per session for 50 minutes. I offer concession rates for student counsellors and therapists. Currently, all concession spots are taken.

I offer weekly therapy sessions and do not work on a fortnightly basis. This is because my clinical experience has shown to me that weekly sessions help maintain the momentum of the therapeutic process in a way that fortnightly sessions often cannot.