Counselling

Our counselling services are tailored to the needs of neurodivergent adults and the needs of parents and carers of children with additional support needs.

With lived experience and specialised training, our BACP-registered therapists provide compassionate, non-judgmental support to help you navigate challenges and move forward at your own pace. We offer online therapy sessions, focusing on your unique experiences, and also provide an affordable low cost counselling service for parents and carers.

Together, we create a safe space to explore, heal, and grow.

 

Our key sensory, emotional and thought systems vary and neuronormative assumptions and misconceptions about neurodivergence can mean that as neurodivergent people we may feel unseen and poorly understood in therapy just when we need to be validated and seen the most.

Our counselling team has lived experience and has trained in supporting neurodivergent people.

We focus on how you feel and think, and seek to affirm, understand and support you in uncovering what has happened to you and how you wish to respond.

We offer therapy online and our sessions last 50 minutes.

Our therapists can work with you on a short-term or longer basis.

Our approach is compassionate, accepting and non-judgmental. The work is centred on you and what you need at this stage and how you wish to move forward.

Many of our neurodivergent clients experience difficulties due, inter alia, to living in a world designed for neurotypical brains. It can be almost impossible not to internalise negative messages about neurodivergence and not to feel bruised by our early life experiences where we have not been fully supported.

Rather than seeing mental health and wellbeing as only an “in person” issue, while recognising those elements, we also acknowledge the impact that society and our environment have on us as well as the role of our environment in helping us to recover.

Our therapists are BACP members, and have experience in working with interpersonal trauma and abuse, addictions, bereavement and other losses, as well as chronic health conditions and anxiety and depression.

It is never too late to take stock, evaluate and seek to move forward in the ways that are right for you and at the pace that works for you.

We also have a low cost service for parents and carers. Scroll down this page to find out more

Meet the Team

  • Silja Turville

    BACP THERAPIST AND ACCREDITED ICF COACH

  • Kristin Ramsey

    BACP THERAPIST

About counselling

What you share in our sessions is confidential unless there are significant concerns in relation to safety or wellbeing where further support may be needed. We ask for details of your GP practice when you start therapy with us.

Our therapists are required to undergo supervision to maintain their registrations and to enhance the quality of our work. Client information shared maintains confidentiality as identifying details or data are not shared.

We follow the BACP Code of Ethics and are registered with the ICO. A key element is that we work within our expertise and training to help keep you safe.

Our low cost therapy service for parents and carers

We offer low cost online therapy for parents and carers especially those whose children (of any age) have additional support needs. We offer short term and long term support. Our fees are £25 to £50 based upon ability to pay. To find out more and be contacted by our team please complete our sign up form below

Key terms and conditions

We charge £72.50 including VAT per 50-minute online session for clients not within our subsidised low cost service.

Payments are required in full ahead of the session by bank transfer unless blocks of sessions or alternative payment arrangements are agreed.

We ask for 24 hours notice of a missed session and will charge in full for missed or cancelled sessions without this amount of notice. However, if we can offer you an alternative time on the same day we will seek to do so.