While coaching focuses mainly on behaviours and goals, counselling and psychotherapy delve deeper into the causes and drivers behind behaviours.

In coaching we would focus on current problems and causes of success and failure in your work and life. Counselling and psychotherapy tend to look deeper into underlying causes.

Coaching will tend to focus on workplace issues more, but not exclusively.

I want to make therapy affordable and so I like to offer some reduced price sessions to those who can’t afford the full price.

Unfortunately, since I still need to make a living and cover costs, I can only offer a limited number of these sessions. So, I limited the low-cost sessions to 10 per person, to allow as many people as possible to access these.

Generally, this is a 20-minute call to get a sense of what you’re looking for and how I can support you. It’s also a chance for you to get to know me a little and get a feel for whether I’m the right counsellor for you.

If you’re not comfortable talking on the phone, let me know, and I’ll propose some alternatives.

It can be a good idea to talk to multiple therapists before settling on one, and I’m happy to offer recommendations of alternative therapists if it’s helpful.

After the first call, I’ll send you an intake form to fill out and my therapy contract, which covers confidentiality, insurance and cancellation policies.

If we decide to work together we’d book in a full 50-minute first session.

Individual sessions are generally 50 minutes long. If you find that this length doesn't work for you, we can discuss shorter or longer sessions.

Couples sessions can be 50 or 80 minutes, depending on your preference. I recommend starting with 50-minute sessions and booking in longer sessions if needed.

Group sessions run for 90 minutes, generally in the evenings from 7pm to 8:30pm.

This depends and it is something we should discuss in our first conversation. I recommend at least 5 sessions, and ideally a minimum of 10. Some more in-depth work can take years.

I’ll try to work with any budget or time constraints you have. Less sessions will generally mean that we won’t have time to open up more complex issues, and I would factor this in to how I work if we are limited in time.

I work at The Practice Rooms on Ship Street in Brighton. I will send you detailed instructions before our first face-to-face session.

I also have rooms available in Hove on certain days.

I’m planning to offer sessions in Haywards Heath on one day per week starting February.

Things happen, and I’ll try to accommodate you wherever possible, including rebooking sessions.

But since I have costs that I need to cover when you don’t show, I ask that you give at least 48 hours’ notice of cancellations. If you cancel with less that 48 hours’ notice, I’ll charge half the cost of the session to cover my expenses and lost income.

I have a Level 6 Certificate in Counselling from the Link Centre, am an accredited member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS), and have an MSc in Psychology from the University of Sussex.

I’m committed to ongoing professional development and training through courses and conferences. I’m also working towards a Level 7 Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and accreditation by the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).

My coaching work draws on my 20 years of experience in project management and entrepreneurship, as well as my MBA and Masters i’s in Mechanical Engineering.

English, German, French and Spanish.

I’m bilingual in English and German, and work in French professionally.

My Spanish is at a conversational level and sufficient to work in, though not as fluent as my other languages. If you are interested in therapy in Spanish, I suggest we have a conversation beforehand.

Anything you share with me will generally remain confidential and will only be shared with my psychotherapeutic supervisor, who is also bound by confidentiality agreements. I will only break confidentiality if I feel there is a serious risk to your well-being or the well-being of someone else (usually to contact other health services). In such cases, I will make an effort to discuss this with you beforehand.

I believe that each of us needs to decide for ourselves who we want to be and where our values lie. For me, this means meeting you on your own and working towards what you want to achieve in an open, honest and respectful way. In our first session, we’d discuss your goals for therapy and decide how we might work together. I think of this as establishing a therapeutic contract. This therapeutic contract can be revisited whenever we feel that our work needs to change direction.

Depending on what works for you, I will work with some combination of head-, heart-, and body-work - or cognitively, emotionally, and somatically. We each have unique ways of dealing with the world and ourselves that come most naturally to us, and others that require stretching ourselves.

Cognitive work involves working with thoughts and perceptions to understand or reframe our experiences. Emotional work might involve feeling, expressing and making sense of our emotions in the safety of the therapy room. Somatic work may involve movement, play with objects or exploring physical feelings that arise during therapy.

I also like to work relationally. This means that I will use our therapeutic relationship, things that happen between us, to try to understand what might be happening in other relationships in your life. The idea is that the therapeutic relationship can be honest, open, and frank, allowing real understanding, healing, and growth.

I believe in making therapy as accessible as possible to everyone. For this reason, I offer reduced prices to those unable to pay the full price. I can only do this for a limited number of sessions. If this is something you need, please indicate this in the contact form.

Group therapy tends to be lower cost per person than individual sessions. Whether or not group therapy is suitable for you is best discussed first in individual therapy.

If none of these options works for you, there is some low-cost therapy available through various organisations, depending on your needs. If you send me a message telling me what you’re looking for, I’ll do my best to signpost you to a suitable service. Alternatively, you can look at some of the following:

https://www.uok.org.uk/

https://www.brightonandhovewellbeing.org/

https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/our-services/community-based-services/mental-health-rapid-response-service

https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/adult-social-care-hub/directories/adult-social-care-directory