Welcome to
INDIVIDUAL
COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY
Birmingham
You are a unique person with your own personal life journey.
Whatever your life journey may look like, I am here to support you. Together, we can tackle your problems, make sense of your life experiences and work towards reaching your goals.
On these pages, you can find out what this support may look like by ‘meeting’ me and getting a first impression. There are also some links which you may find helpful plus general information about counselling & psychotherapy.
How I Work
You are an individual and I first want to get to know you!
Who you are, the kinds of things that are important to you, your current life situation, what brought you to counselling, and what you hope to get out of therapy. Also, there will be time to discuss any questions or concerns you may have.
These are some of the things we will likely discuss in a first session.
I offer this first session at a reduced rate with no obligation to continue!
If, after your introductory session, you choose to continue our sessions together, we will use your goals as a guide and I will draw from the following therapy forms and techniques (as they appeal to you and how applicable they are in light of your individual situation).
This form of therapy seeks to identify your personal ‘life patterns’ or ‘lenses’ through which you see life (known as schemata). These schemata will have been formed pretty early in life, they are the motivational factors that drive your behaviour, emotions, thoughts, attitudes and even your perception. Every person has their own individual schemata, some will be positive and helping you to reach your personal goals, some will be negative and interfering with things that are important to you.
Often, even just identifying your patterns can be helpful – but the aim will be to strengthen the positive, helpful schemata and weaken the negative ones.
Rather than a specific form of therapy, this is a general approach to counselling & psychotherapy. It means that I will aim to find out what is important to you personally, what makes you unique, and what your psychological needs are, to adapt my style accordingly and to build up and use the strengths you already have, even if (or especially when) they are buried beneath your problems.
CBT has been widely researched, adapted and extended over the years since its very basic beginnings in the 1960s, and boasts of many techniques to help overcome specific difficulties.
One of its great benefits is that it enables you to build up a ‘toolkit’ that you can use on your own, between sessions and after therapy has ended.
Frequency & Duration
You might want to know how long the therapy will last for and how frequently the sessions will be. This will largely depend on you and your problems and goals, but I usually work on a basis of weekly sessions, sometimes spaced out more, especially towards the end of therapy, and will be able to make an initial suggestion after our first session. In any case, we will review the progress in regular intervals and you are free to end therapy with me at any time (ideally, this will happen in a way we have mutually planned).
About Me
Professional Memberships
Whatever your life journey may look like, I am here to support you. Together, we can tackle your problems, make sense of your life experiences and work towards reaching your goals.
Book a Session
All sessions available in English or German. I look forward to meeting you!
Prices
Initial Session
- First session with no obligation to continue
Standard Rate
- A normal session lasts 60 minutes.
Contact Me
… or call me 0798 6153 419
Location
Martin Court
4 Albany Rd
Harborne
Birmingham
B17 9JX
There is no dedicated parking space. Parking can be found in the neighbouring roads, or Waitrose has a 90-minute free customer car park.
Many bus routes stop at Harborne High Street.