Therapy Success

Working agreement and fees

The standard fee for Therapy Success clients is £55 for 50 minutes of therapeutic space. Please allow for up to an hour of your time in total.

For couples counselling, the fee is £65 for an hour.

Financial flexibility may be available to those with money worries – please speak with me to see what we can do.

Excerpt from the WORKING AGREEMENT FOR COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY:  

The purpose of the working contract is to establish an agreement regarding the practical, therapeutic and ethical considerations of our relationship.

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Our Therapeutic Working Relationship

Both the client and counsellor will share the goal of facilitating your personal growth.

I, the counsellor, commit to:

  • Being present and genuine with you during sessions.
  • Holding your wellbeing at the centre of our work.
  • Listening with compassion, honesty and respect.
  • Working in line with UKCP professional and ethical standards.

I invite you, the client, to:

  • Attend sessions with commitment to your wellbeing and your therapeutic process.
  • Share if you feel unsafe or overwhelmed in a session so we can work together to re-establish support and holding.

Confidentiality:

  • Nothing you say will be passed on, except within clinical supervision, where your identity will be kept private.
  • The counsellor will need to breach confidentiality if they believe that the client may harm themselves or others, by contacting 999, the client’s GP, or their local mental health crisis team. This may be done without the client’s permission, depending on the urgency and nature of the case.

Etiquette:

  • Neither counsellor nor client will attend counselling sessions under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs.
  • If they encounter each other outside of the therapy room, the counsellor and client will keep communication brief and not mention anything pertaining to their counselling relationship.

Lateness & Cancellations:

  • If the client arrives late to a session, or does not attend, the counsellor can retain the full fee for the session.
  • You must notify me by telephone (text, call or voicemail) if you are going to be unexpectedly late to a session.
  • Both client and counsellor will issue a minimum of 24 hours’ notice if a session must be cancelled, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
  • If the counsellor cancels the session, you will be refunded regardless of when I notify you of the cancellation.
  • If the client cancels the session more than 24 hours before it is due to take place, the counsellor will either refund any payment for that session or rearrange the session by mutual agreement for no further fee.
  • If the client cancels the session within 24 hours before it is due to take place, the counsellor will usually retain the payment for that session but may allow the client to rearrange the session for no further fee.