Online or in-person?
Therapy can be either in person, online or a hybrid approach with online and in-person sessions. With online therapy you have convenience, but can miss out on some of the benefits of being in person. For example being in-person can help us build a more grounded relationship, which can feel more containing such as when deep emotions are being shared.
What to expect
In our first session I will ask you about the issues that have brought you to seek counselling. I will also ask you about any positive things and people you have in your life and about the aspirations you have for your life. What really matters to you? If you have a spiritual life this can be included in our exploration.
I will give you space to speak about the difficulties you are facing, and the impact these issues are having on you. We will try to understand together how the difficulties have come about, and also what keeps the same difficulties re-occurring. Understanding yourself better can be a relief, but we often also need to break patterns of behaviour and thinking that are no longer serving us.
Part of my approach is to then introduce skills that help you to act in line with whats important to you rather than old patterns, such as :
1. Be more present to events in the moment rather than caught up in thinking troublesome thoughts
2. Notice when your thinking is unhelpful and learn to stand back and be less impacted by unhelpful thoughts
3. Notice emotions coming and going and gradually improve your ability to open to these and allow them to be experienced.
These skills can help you to learn how to follow through on actions in line with your chosen life direction, even when you are experiencing difficulties.
How to get started
Contact me at lucydorey@live.co.uk
I will reply as promptly as possible within week days, usually within 24 hours
I will invite you to speak on the phone or zoom to discuss whether therapy with me is likely to meet your needs from counselling. Or if you prefer we can arrange a first session without speaking first.
Following this if we are both happy to proceed we will agree a contract making clear how the therapy works in terms of frequency, times, venue, confidentiality, privacy, and cancellations.
Fees
My fee is £60 per one hour session paid prior to the session by bank transfer
Individual Therapy
