Where we start, bring the thing you're most afraid is too much. I'll stay.
Bring the thing you’re most afraid is too much. I’ll stay.
I won’t hand you answers, and I won’t hand you back. Here it’s steady enough that you can find your own, and I trust that you will.
Twenty years of staying with people in the hardest places they've been.
More than twenty years in residential mental health and addiction services, much of it alongside people in real distress, is where I learned that the relationship is the work.
That work asks for a particular steadiness: present and containing when someone is struggling, and not needing them to be anywhere other than where they are. It's the same steadiness I bring to private practice, established in 2005.
Staying with you, for as long as it takes.
Staying with you, for as long as it takes.
The places this work most often begins.
People arrive with all sorts of things: these are some of the more common, each one a doorway into the same work, not a category you have to fit.
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Most people arrive here long after the knowing started. This is somewhere the whole of it can be brought, without a verdict waiting.
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Anxiety rarely announces itself as fear.
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There are no clean stages, no schedule, no point at which it is reliably finished.
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The difficulty with boundaries is rarely that you don’t know where they should be.
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A heaviness that outlasts effort deserves more than being waited out. This is somewhere it can be brought.
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You do the things. You hold the roles, answer to your name, meet the people you’re meant to meet. From the outside it looks like a life, and by most measures it is a good one.
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The situation has moved, and the self is still somewhere behind it, looking for ground that has shifted.
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This is a space for the person carrying the doubt. It asks nothing of you, and nothing has to be said before you are ready.
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From the outside it looks generous, attentive, accommodating, reliably willing, and it’s often mistaken for kindness, including by the person doing it.
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Most people who come to talk about a relationship have already noticed the pattern.
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This isn’t low confidence in the usual sense. Many people who doubt their worth are visibly capable, often the most capable in the room, the one others lean on.
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What could not be felt at the time does not simply fade. This is somewhere it can begin to be met, at a pace that stays yours.
Change happens in the relationship.
What is actually here
Bring what you have and we can make it manageable.
A relationship that survives
Misunderstanding brings understanding.
Understanding you can feel
Thinking needs room to breathe.
A more workable relationship with the person you already are.
Your problems won’t disappear; your relationship to them changes.
Fifty minutesonce a week,for as long
as it takes.
A reliable hour, held open each week, is what lets something difficult be brought into the room slowly, rather than managed alone between appointments.
Fifty minutes, with no agenda you have to arrive with. Some weeks we follow a thread all the way through; some weeks we sit with something and let it stay unfinished. Both are the work.
A first conversation
A free fifteen-minute call, what's bringing you to therapy, and whether working together feels like a fit. No pressure to commit.
An initial session
The usual fifty minutes, in person or online. Space to say more, to ask questions, and to begin mapping the territory.
An ongoing rhythm
Weekly fifty-minute sessions, at the same time each week. The work settles best with a steady home in your week.
A natural ending
We agree the work is done together. Endings matter, and we give them the time they need rather than letting things drift.
117 Harley Street.
Counselling and psychotherapy at 117 Harley Street, London. Sessions last fifty minutes, with a regular time each week.
Cattle Market, Norwich.
In-person counselling and psychotherapy at 30 Cattle Market Street, Norwich NR1 3DY.
Clear, up-front, no surprises.
First conversation
Harley Street
Norwich
Online
01How long does therapy usually take?
02Is what I say kept confidential?
03Will my insurance cover sessions?
04What if I'm not sure therapy is for me?
Get in touch, an initial conversation, no obligation beyond the time it takes.
An initial conversation
No obligation beyond the time it takes.
Norwich NR1 3DY · Online via Microsoft Teams
