ABOUT THE THERAPY
What kind of therapy?
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.
Building trust
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.
Where it happens
Locations for therapy room sessions are in Battersea and Clapham in south west London. Whether working by phone, video links, 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.
How much does it cost?
Online, off-peak sessions start from £55 for 50 minutes, rising to £71 for peak-time face-to-face sessions in therapy rooms in Battersea or Clapham.
How many sessions?
About Paul Carslake
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 major issue that's in the foreground.
For some people, just one or two sessions can be enough to get 'unstuck', it is more common for people to stay with psychodynamic therapy for three months or more.
About Paul Carslake
About Paul Carslake
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.
Phone, Skype, Outdoor...
Phone, Skype, Outdoor...
Phone, Skype, Outdoor...
Outside of the therapy room setting we also offer counselling by phone and Zoom as well as outdoor counselling (which is combined with a walk in the park).