Free 30 minute initial consultation

The initial consultation is a no obligation confidential chat held face to face at my clinic, or over the phone if the presenting problem is straight forward. It gives me the opportunity to get to understand what it is that you want to address. I will then be able to tell you if I think I can help you and we can agree on the most appropriate  style of therapy for you. It will also give you the chance to ask as many questions as you like, to help you decide if you want to go ahead and work with me.  Assuming you do, we will then book your first working session.  This initial meeting will often run to an hour or more. The more complex the issue, the longer this session is likely to run. I will not charge you for the first 30 minutes. If during the first 30 minutes I find that I cannot help you, we will end the session and there will be no charge.

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The first and subsequent working sessions

It is highly likely that the first working session will last 2 hours.  This allows additional time to get background information about the presenting problem, and for me to explain the methodology of selected style of therapy. In all but the more complex of cases we will then get to work with the therapy itself.  Subsequent sessions are between 60 and 90 minutes duration. 

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Removing obstacles and changing behaviour

The following explanation is a little simplistic, but you will get the idea:

Every split second of every day your mind is being bombarded with information from your senses, and your subconscious mind tries to match that information with stuff that is similar to what is already stored.  Now, if what you did last time worked, it will try and do the same thing again, and if it didn’t then it will try to avoid it. Most of the time that system works really well.  The problem is though, this part of the brain is immensely fast, and not very logical so it sets your behaviour and emotions into action before you are consciously aware of what has happened.  So if it finds something it thinks was a threat, it will create anxiety to steer you away from it even if consciously you now know there is no cause for concern.  I can help you teach the speedy part of your brain that it is ok to do what you want to do whilst still maintaining it's integrity of keeping you safe.  The therapies page will explain a little more about the different ways of working

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Creating what you want

The subconscious mind is a natural goal-achieving machine.  However as I’ve said before, it tends to be a very literal and not necessarily logical part of the brain.  It’s a bit like a "genie" that grants your wishes by giving you whatever subject you focus it on. The trouble is that more often than not, when I speak to people that are struggling, they can give me a list of what they don’t want; how they don’t want to feel; what they don’t want to do.  Guess what?  The genie obeys and gives them exactly that…..what they don’t want-because that is exactly what is being focused on!

I will teach you how to use the "genie" to create what you want.  It is amazing to see the changes in peoples lives by just knowing how to think.

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Maintaining mental and emotional wellbeing

When there is something wrong medically, you go and see your GP. Likewise, life can be challenging at times and sometimes we need help psychologically to cope. That is why I am here so give me a call today. I can teach you some very helpful tools, techniques and resources to help you maintain your mental health or take your personal development to another level.

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