Please reach us at gail@spacetobeyou.net if you cannot find an answer to your question.
If working online, the first meeting lasts 30 minutes and is free of charge. This is a ‘getting to know you’ session for both of us so that I can get an impression of your needs and you can see if you feel I'm a good fit for you.
If you wish, you can continue and complete a full one-hour session (charged at £25.00). Or you can choose to go away and ‘sleep on it' then contact me to make a full one-hour appointment. Or indeed you’re free to just let me know you don’t wish to continue.
If you prefer to work in person, the first session is a full hour and is charged at £45.00.
Therapy can be quite short – around 6-8 weeks - if there is a specific issue you wish us to deal with. If you wish to look at deeper or more longstanding issues, it is likely to take longer. How many sessions you'd like to do is something we can review as we go along, and ultimately is always your decision.
In any case, after 6 sessions, we will review progress and discuss how we both feel it is going, whether one or both of us feels it has achieved its purpose by then or whether you would like to continue. We can then review our sessions as appropriate thereafter.
If you stay to the full hour in our first appointment, I will need you to pay the £25.00 in cash, cheque or online.
Each 60-minute session costs £45.00. We can agree how you will pay – either by cash, cheque or bank transfer within 48 hours of completing each session.
Life can be unpredictable, and you may need to cancel or change a session in advance. However, like most professional counsellors, I ask for 24 hours' notice of any changes. Quite often, I’ll be able to rearrange an appointment easily, but this cannot be guaranteed. If you cancel with less than 24 hours' notice, you will be required to pay.
I don’t have a problem with that, but out of respect for your confidentiality (you may not want people to know how you know me), if I see you I will follow your lead. If you greet me, I’ll greet you back. If you don’t greet me, I’ll understand that you prefer not to acknowledge each other. In any case, I won’t enter into conversation with you. And if you prefer not to greet, I won't take it personally.
You are welcome to ‘Like’/’Follow’ my ‘Space to Be You Counselling’ Facebook page if you wish to. However, according to my professional guidelines, please note that I don't accept clients as Facebook ‘Friends’ on my personal Facebook page.
You may contact me by email, text or phone, to make/change appointments. I will only contact you as and when needed as part of the counselling. I can't enter into correspondence between sessions.
I will hold your name, address and other contact details, plus date of birth. In our first session(s), I will also take a case history and reasons why you have come to see me. This information is kept securely and confidentially.
I will also keep brief notes on our sessions so as to remember what we’ve covered, what I would like to look at in our next session, etc.
Your personal and contact details will be kept separately from any notes I write about our sessions.
As a professional counsellor, I am bound to discuss my cases with a supervisor on a regular basis. This is in order that appropriate professional standards are maintained.
My supervisor does not live locally, and I will not share your full name with her.
Everything that happens within the therapy room is confidential. In most cases, I will not share anything with anybody else without your permission.
My code of ethics requires me to breach confidentiality only in exceptional cases of safeguarding, i.e. if (a) I believe you are at risk of harming yourself or (b) somebody else, or (c) if harm has been done to a child/children. These are obviously quite extreme and rare circumstances, but I am professionally required to tell you know this when we start counselling.
Your personal information will be kept in a safe place in my home under lock and key.
My code of ethics states that I must keep your data and notes for a total of seven years.
Yes, I have the required Professional Liability Insurance for a counsellor.
Please contact me at gail@spacetobeyou.net if you cannot find an answer to your question.
If working online, the first meeting lasts 30 minutes and is free of charge. This is a ‘getting to know you’ session for both of us so that I can get an impression of your needs and you can see if you feel what I offer meets what you’re looking for.
You can continue and complete a full one-hour session (charged at £25.00) if you are sure you’d like to continue. Or you can choose to go away and ‘sleep on it' then contact me to make a full one-hour appointment. Or indeed you’re free to just let me know you don’t wish to continue.
If you prefer to work in person, the first session is a full hour and is charged at £45.00.
Therapy can be quite short – around 6-8 weeks - if there is a specific issue you wish us to deal with. If you wish to look at deeper or more longstanding issues, it is likely to take longer. How many sessions you'd like to do is something we can review as we go along, and ultimately is always your decision.
In any case, after 6 sessions, we will review progress and discuss how we both feel it is going, whether one or both of us feels it has achieved its purpose by then or whether you would like to continue. We can then review our sessions as appropriate thereafter.
If you stay to the full hour in our first appointment, I will need you to pay the £25.00 in cash, cheque or online.
Each 60-minute session costs £45.00. We can agree how you will pay – either by cash, cheque or bank transfer within 48 hours of completing the session.
Life can be unpredictable, and you may need to cancel or change a session in advance. However, like most professional counsellors, I ask for 24 hours' notice of any changes. Quite often, I’ll be able to rearrange an appointment easily, but this cannot be guaranteed. If you cancel with less than 24 hours' notice, you will be required to pay.
I don’t have a problem with that, but out of respect for your confidentiality (you may not want people to know how you know me), if I see you I will follow your lead. If you greet me, I’ll greet you back. If you don’t greet me, I’ll understand that you prefer not to acknowledge each other. In any case, I won’t enter into conversation with you.
You are welcome to ‘Like’/’Follow’ my ‘Space to Be You Counselling’ Facebook page if you wish to. However, according to my professional guidelines, please note that I don't accept clients as Facebook ‘Friends’ on my personal Facebook page.
You may contact me by email, text or phone, to make/change appointments. I will agree with you which of these you are happy to use when contacting you. I will only contact you as and when needed as part of the counselling.
I will hold your name, address and other contact details, plus date of birth. In our first session(s), I will also take a case history and reasons why you have come to see me. This information is kept securely.
I will also keep brief notes on our sessions so as to remember what we’ve covered, what I would like to look at in our next session, etc.
Your personal and contact details will be kept separately from any notes I write about our sessions.
As a professional counsellor, I am bound to discuss my cases with a supervisor on a regular basis. This is in order that appropriate professional standards are maintained.
My supervisor does not live locally, and I will not share your full name or your contact details with her.
Everything that happens within the therapy room is confidential. In most cases, I will not share anything with anybody else without your permission.
My code of ethics requires me to breach confidentiality only in exceptional cases of safeguarding, i.e. if (a) I believe you are at risk of harming yourself or (b) somebody else, or (c) if harm has been done to a child/children. These are obviously quite extreme and rare circumstances, but I am professionally required to let you know this.
Your personal information will be kept in a safe place in my home under lock and key.
My code of ethics states that I must keep your data and notes for a total of seven years.
Yes, I have the required Professional Liability Insurance for a counsellor.