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I am available for face to face appointments Monday - Friday. 

No referral is required to make an appointment.

I offer after hours appointments and occasional Saturday mornings.

I also offer online appointments where needed. 

'After hours' and 'after school' times are usually busy. Where an 'after school' time is not currently available for a child or young person, I will either try and offer you an alternative time and/ or add you to a short waiting list for an 'after school' place. 

Alternatively, I would be able to refer you to other practitioners in the North Tyneside area. 

I am in private practice in North Shields where I see children, teenagers, individual adults and couples. (I also meet with parents as a necessary part of the work with a child or young person.)

I offer an 'at-depth' psychological approach, which is able to address more serious or recurring problems, which may not have been helped by other forms of therapy.

As well as offering adult counselling and psychotherapy for a wide range of issues, I have a particular interest in and experience of therapeutic work with adults who have acute or recurring difficulties. These may include problems with personal or work relationships; ongoing or acute anxiety and/ or depression; managing anger; OCD;  eating disorders; patterns of addiction or addictive behaviour; self-harm, difficulties with the sense of self.

These sorts of problems may be the result of difficulties from childhood or adolescence which were not able to be attended to at the time.

I offer therapeutic work with children and young people, (4yo-25yo), and am able to see children and young people with a wide range of emotional and/ or behavioural problems.

I mainly work via non-directional play for children, which allows a child to express themselves in their own way. It is very natural, the aim is for the child to be able to be entirely themselves in the room. While my response to them is also natural, it is based on my training, clinical thinking and understanding. The outcome is that a child gradually feels and manages better.  

I have considerable experience in working with children who have serious developmental problems; I've generally seen these children gradually able to manage better in all areas.

I offer a flexible, indirect approach for teenagers, adapted to the needs of each young person.

I originally trained in adult counselling, however, I have undertaken significant further specialist training to work at depth with adults, couples, children and teenagers. 

I have more than 14 years of experience in my own practice.

Fees

I now usually charge £55 for an initial consultation for an individual, £65 - £70 for couples.

I charge £70 for a longer initial consultation for parents.  Any further consultations for parents after that are charged at £50 - £55.

My usual fees are then in the range of £45 - £50 for an individual session;  fees may be negotiated on an individual basis. 

In some circumstances , I am willing to offer a place at a lower fee. 

I offer an initial short online or telephone consultation at no charge.  

I usually allow one hour for an initial consultation for an individual adult or couple. 

I allow one hour plus 20 minutes for an initial consultation for parent/s (or caregivers) of a child or teenager.

Session times after that are usually 55 mins for an adult and 45 - 50 minutes for children and teenagers, depending on their age.