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Booking a therapy session can be daunting especially if you've never experienced it before. Even if you have been to therapy then meeting a new person in an unknown environment can be understandably nerve-wracking. That's why I offer an introductory taster session for £15- it's your chance (and mine) to check out how the relationship feels, to discuss practicalities and for you to get used to the space where we'll be working. It's your chance to "test out", commitment free, what therapy might feel like. 

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We'll meet in my quiet home office in leafy Alwoodley. If you arrive early, there is beautiful countryside a 5 minute walk away and local amenities.  Our taster session will be an opportunity to get used to the surroundings, ask questions and begin to share some of what brings you to therapy. As I listen deeply to your story, your feelings and your difficulties I'll be beginning to form a picture of you and your relationships and how we might work together. 

 

If you decide you'd like more sessions we'll then contract together about your aims for therapy, how long you'd like to work and fees.  I'll continue to take some of your psychological history and if we contract for longer term exploratory work this may take several sessions.  Once this section of the work is finished, we'll proceed to work together "in the moment", guided by what's coming for up you. I'll check in with you regularly about your evolving aims and awareness and how the therapeutic relationship is feeling and functioning.