Fees, office hours, etc

For both couples and individuals, the first session is 2 hours, and the rest are 1.5 hours.

I offer a free choice of time between sessions, and mostly people choose three or four weeks. That’s subject to availability; if booking from one session to the next, I can’t guarantee the preferred time will be free. However we can work round this and ensure the preferred time by pencilling in two or three sessions ahead.

Payment is by BACS ie mobile banking, session by session, in advance of the appointment.

My office hours are:

Monday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday – closed.
Subject to availability, possible appointment hours are:

11:30-1:00 on Tuesday and Thursday (but not Wednesday)
2:30 – 4:00 on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
4:30 – 6:00 on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
7:00-8:30 pm on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday

To fit in the first, 2-hour, appointment I extend these hours like this: the three daytime slots start half and hour earlier, and the evening slot ends half an hour later (ie 7:00 – 9:00 pm.)

My office is 7, Unity St BS1 5HH. This is the road at the bottom of Park St directly opposite College Green with a pizza place on the left hand corner and a Cafe Restore on the right hand corner. If you’re driving, the low-level exit from Trenchard St is only a couple of hundred yards away.

My therapy model is a burst of sessions, rather than long term continuing. Roughly half of individual clients come for 5 – 10 sessions and roughly half of couples come for 4 – 8 sessions. You should get a sense of how things are going after the first couple of sessions. A few individuals do come for longer, some for a dozen or a few up to 20 or 24 sessions.

It goes without saying I don’t mean that all or any problems can be healed in that time. Rather, my model is to turn the corner which life is inviting you to turn in the present moment. That could be a huge or a small corner. There may or may not be other corners to turn in the future.

There’s no commitment to any fixed number of sessions. You get a free choice of time between sessions, and most people choose three or four weeks, or sometimes fortnightly just to start off with (all subject to my diary).

Prior to starting we have a half hour initial meeting. There is no charge for this and no obligation.   Please contact me here to arrange one.

No, you can choose any day/time that works, subject to availability. 

It simply is not true that online therapy is as good as in person. Some subtle essence is lost that is crucial for true connection, understanding, and healing. I would not advise anyone to do therapy online.

I discovered this by working with some clients doing a mixture of in-person and online. Both myself and the people involved felt far more effectiveness working face to face.

I’m fine to do the occasional one-off online, if for example childcare falls through at the last minute. Even there, sessions where myself  and the two members of a couple are in three different locations are simply a waste of time.  I don’t do these at all.

There’s easy parking in Trenchard St multistorey. The low-level exit is only a couple of hundred yards walk from my office.

There are  bike racks in the street, and you can also bring the bike up a few steps into the downstairs lobby.

I don’t work with people of undergraduate age or younger. Students typically need some kind of weekly support, but my sessions are three or four weeks apart. This fits badly with the university term. In addition the transition from the small world of school to the big world of university has some specialised aspects that I have no training in.

Yes, if you’d like to write something down you’re welcome. Just ask and I’ll give you a clipboard.

I don’t do single sessions of this or any type of therapy, though I’ll probably do one or more constellations with most clients.