Fees for Private Individuals and Couples Counselling

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Cost of Private Counselling.

Counselling is an incredibly liberating and helpful experience and private counselling is not free of charge. My investment in your therapy is appropriately matched by my professional fees.

I am a fully qualified, highly skilled, CPD-adhering, ethical therapist:

• I am accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) which confirms my ten+ years of substantial training, practical experience and adherence to the BACP’s code of ethics.
• I have qualifications in both individual psychodynamic counselling and couples systemic & psychodynamic counselling.
• I attend continued professional development workshops and training, which keeps my practice informed and up to date.
• I work with individuals and couples in both long-term and short-term psychotherapy.
• I offer concessions for negotiation and I also operates a sliding scale on a limited number of places for those who choose private counselling with me over, say, going through their GP six-session counselling, NHS counselling waiting lists or going to a charitable counselling service.

Standard Fees.

My standard counselling fees are:

• Individual counselling: £45.00 / session*
• Couples counselling: £50.00 / session*

Sliding Scale.

*Sliding scale: For those whose income might make private counselling fees a struggle to pay, I have a number of slots available where I can discuss a reduction in fees (eg concessions and a ’sliding scale’). To discuss this with me, please first consider carefully what you could responsibly afford to pay weekly, and we can take up this discussion from that point.

Cost Savings.

• The initial assessment session(s) are charged at the regular sessions rate. I do not add the additional costs incurred by post-assessment administration,
• No VAT is added to my fees … saving you 17.5% (equivalent to a £47.25 discount on a course of six individual’s sessions & £45.0/session (individuals) and a £52.50 discount on a course of six couples’ sessions).
• A minimum of of 2 working-days’ notice is required to cancel or rearrange a session, otherwise the full session fee is payable for the missed session. Once the session is allocated to you, it cannot be allocated to anyone else without sufficient notice.

How to pay.

Fees are payable weekly and are payingas follows:-

(in Portsmouth) by cash, cheque, debit card or credit card (a £1 credit-card processing fee is added to credit card payments. Debit card payments are free of this fee),

(in Chichester) by cash or cheque.

All sessions (including assessment sessions) are fifty minutes in length.

Make an Appointment

See my Contact Me page or click here to send me a secure message to make an initial no-obligation appointment for an assessment for counselling.