
Welcome to talkplace, where you can find out a bit about talking therapy (and book an introductory session if you like), and where you can also browse some short articles on various mental health topics - the talkplace toolkit. And you'll get a complete choice of face-to-face therapy room sessions, Zoom counselling, telephone sessions and even, as we head into the autumn, outdoor 'walk + talk' meetings.
talkplace offers counselling and therapy to help deal with the tough stuff that life throws at you. We work on it together, so you don't have to grapple with it alone.
You will find a growing resource of short articles discussing some of the most common issues in mental health, at work, at home, and at various stages through our lives.
My aim is to work with you to help you find ways to cope better with what life throws at you. People often come to therapy seeking ways to feel better about themselves and more in control of their lives. Working together, that is what we want the counselling to achieve.
Counsellors don't provide advice, but nor will they leave you to figure it all out on your own. It’s a process of working together. We aim to build trust, and allow you to find words to express things that may have gone unspoken for some time during your lifetime.
Locations for therapy room sessions are in Battersea and Clapham in south west London. Whether working by phone, online therapy, or in-person, sessions are always on the same day and time each week - but with flexibility to allow for your work and other commitments where necessary.
Online, off-peak sessions start from £55 for 50 minutes, rising to £71 for peak-time face-to-face sessions in therapy rooms at Battersea or Clapham.
This depends on the scope of the work you want to do. Eight sessions is a kind of baseline, enough time to talk a bit about your own background and work on one focused issue. While, for some people, just one or two sessions can be enough to get 'unstuck', it is more common for people to stay with therapy for three months or more.
The therapy I offer falls broadly into the ‘psychodynamic’ category. This means we can think a bit about your past and explore how things might be getting repeated in the present. And it also means we can use aspects of the therapy room conversation to provide clues about patterns of relating in the world outside. If time is more limited, and we need to focus on just one specific aspect, then we use a slightly different brief therapy approach that looks more at the ‘now’, and rather less at the past.
Outside of the therapy room setting I also offer counselling by phone and online counselling by Zoom as well as outdoor counselling - which is combined with a walk in the park.
I offer both short term and longer term counselling and therapy, with the option of phone or online counselling sessions as well as face-to-face meetings. The 'brand' of therapy includes psychodynamic techniques, and looks at repeated patterns of thought and behaviour from the past, as well as making use of the interactions between therapist and patient as a means of learning more about our ways of being and relating.
A very wide range, relating to all aspects of work or home life. The most common ones (across online therapy an in-person therapy) are depression-based conditions and anxiety, as well as bereavement, work stress, and relationship and family issues.
This will depend on you. You can have anything from Single Session Therapy (SST), or a set of pre-booked sessions, or work on an 'open-ended' basis with no fixed end date.
You will usually need to pay a cancellation fee for any missed sessions, which is reduced if you give plenty of notice.
Payment is taken via an electronic link - you are invoiced after each session.
The best way to find out is to book a single ‘taster’ session, or else a short block of sessions - say for six weeks.
During the call, you will be able to ask anything you like about the talkplace service, and perhaps discuss in broad terms what is drawing you to a talking therapy.
In emergencies, yes, you can get in touch to arrange an additional phone or Zoom session.
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