Useful Information about Therapy
I charge £ 95 for remote based therapy such as telephone psychotherapy or online based therapy. Face to Face sessions are charged at £ 110 per hour. I am accredited with most UK based insurers who either completely or at least partially cover CBT sessions. This is because I maintain full accreditation with the BABCP.
The BABCP represents the gold standard in terms of recognition for Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapists in the United Kingdom. Sessions are can be booked either through a self referral or by a referral from a medical / mental health professional.
How to Start
People can have different needs, ranging from looking for a psychotherapist that treats anxiety or OCD to seeking therapy for straightforward phobias. It can be difficult to know what kind of psychotherapy may be the best fit for yourself. I therefore offer a no strings attached and free up to fifteen minute consultation in which we explore what your difficulties are and I will also highlight what my approach entails. This will allow us to see whether we are a suitable fit. If we aren't compatible, I will recommend someone suitable.
The BABCP represents the gold standard in terms of recognition for Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapists in the United Kingdom. Sessions are can be booked either through a self referral or by a referral from a medical / mental health professional.
How to Start
People can have different needs, ranging from looking for a psychotherapist that treats anxiety or OCD to seeking therapy for straightforward phobias. It can be difficult to know what kind of psychotherapy may be the best fit for yourself. I therefore offer a no strings attached and free up to fifteen minute consultation in which we explore what your difficulties are and I will also highlight what my approach entails. This will allow us to see whether we are a suitable fit. If we aren't compatible, I will recommend someone suitable.
How I Work
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We always start by doing an assessment. This will allow us to better understand what the nature of your difficulties are.
People can be suffering from many problems such as anxiety and this can be driven by different things such as unhelpful perfectionism or people pleasing. As everyone is different, the high amount of variance in what exactly is driving and maintaining your difficulties needs to be understood. Someone who is anxious at work may for example notice that they always people please just before experiencing situational anxiety. This can often be a short term fix that maintains their anxiety in the long term (see safety behaviours for further information). In summary, finding out what your problems are, how and why they may have formed, what maintains them and what usually triggers them in both an immediate and long term can provide a massive benefit. As complex as this sounds, a focus is always on implementing straight forward way of working on your difficulties. |
The guiding philosophy will always be on finding a tailored approach for yourself whilst keeping any relevant insights and tools / methods you learn as straight forward and simple as possible whilst at the same time aiming to achieve a maximum benefit. No one who's really anxious or angry will engage in overly complex techniques and is also likely to forget these after a while.
Further Details
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As one of the few fully accredited online therapists in the UK, my focus on effective behavioural interventions and evolutionary theory will not differ whether we meet face to face for therapy or over the telephone.
In fact, studies have shown that online therapy for anxiety or any other issue such as stress or OCD, does not decrease in effectiveness when compared to face to face based psychotherapy. We will always focus on creating ideas (hypotheses) about the nature of your difficulties and test these by you trying things out in-between sessions. If things don't improve, we would change our understanding of your difficulties until your difficulties improve. This represents the hallmark of the UCL case formulation model. All of the covered steps and concepts are underpinned by scientific therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy, the UCL Case Formulation Model, Schema Therapy and Compassion Focused Therapy. |
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Sometimes people can have unique needs. Be it that one is housebound due to anxiety or limited in how to engage in therapy due to work pressures.
If you feel like your circumstances require a more tailored approach towards treatment, you can get in touch and potential adjustments can be explored. |
Common requests for tailored therapy include: Home visits, therapy outside of the 9 -5 spectrum, psychotherapy in German. I occasionally also see clients more than once a week if we agree that this can aid the treatment process.
This can be a common element in OCD therapy, as exposure and response prevention requires effort and focus. |
I specialise in treating the following difficulties: Anxiety, Stress, Phobias, Perfectionism, Low Self-Esteem, Asperger's, Depression and OCD.
