Post-Christmas Counselling

• Get the Holiday events off of your mind.
• Talk through problems to leave you approaching 2012 with a freer mind to the future.
• Refresh your psyche (or your relationship, if you’re a couple).

• Four sessions of counselling with a professionally qualified & experienced counsellor/psychotherapist at a discounted rate of 20% off the standard fees.
• Regularly scheduled sessions will normally be weekly, on the same day and time each week.
• Location for the sessions is either in Portsmouth, or via the Internet using Skype video conferencing (see locations).
• Absolutely no obligation to continue with further sessions after the fourth session is complete.
• Alternatively, if client wishes to continue with counselling, the sessions will continue weekly at the standard rate or a negotiated rate if the standard rate would make continuing inaccessible for the client.
• Sessions are payable weekly – or in a lump sum – whichever suits you.
• A deposit of one session is required (payable at time of booking) to begin the service.
• Cancellation Fee: arranged sessions that are not attended (eg cancelled within 48 hours or absent) are charged the per-session rate.
• If, at any time, you find the counselling is not helpful – you may exit without paying for any further sessions.  Although, it is helpful if you can discuss with Dean what you may be finding unhelpful – in case another approach may suit you better.

If this discount still makes private counselling outside of your ability to pay, I have a limited number of cases where I can discuss with you a lower fee (read more…).

Personal Counselling.

(Cost: £36/session for four sessions. Normal price: £45 per session).

The four sessions are aimed at helping the client focus upon a matter that raised itself during the Christmas/New Year holidays.

The first session will be an assessment for counselling – helping the client to outline the problem.

The remaining three sessions will be a more-free form allowing the client to focus upon the problem and begin to understand in greater details what personal issues may need to be addressed.

To read more about my personal counselling service, see my main personal counselling page.

Couple Counselling.

(Cost: £40/session for four sessions. Normal price: £50 per session).

The four sessions are aimed at helping the couple begin to focus upon a conflict in their relationship.

The format of the sessions are aimed at helping the couple being able to clarify & communicate clearly the problem to each other. This format is often helpful:-

• Session 1: Couple meet together with Dean Richardson to outline the problem to be addressed.
• Session 2: One partner meets with Dean on their own.  This is to get their perspective (private from their partner  if so desired) of the relationship problem & to take a personal history.
• Session 3: As session 2, but with the other partner.
• Session 4: Couple meet with Dean again to review what has been learned/discovered in the previous sessions & to attempt to agree what the couple agree to focus upon in order to address/resolve the relationship problem.