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  • About Simon
    • Biography
    • Qualifications
    • Writing >
      • Blog
  • Counselling & Psychotherapy
    • What happens when I make contact?
    • Considering therapy?
    • Counselling or Psychotherapy?
    • What is Person-centred Experiential therapy?
    • What can I expect?
    • Your Feedback
    • 'Just Once' Therapy
    • Grief & Bereavement
    • Trauma-informed Therapy
    • Confidentiality & Ethics
    • Working Agreement
  • Supervision
    • Counselling supervision
    • Supervision for other professions
  • Webcam Contact
  • Counselling & Spirituality
  • Contact & Practicalities
    • Contact Me
    • Make an appointment
    • Fees and payment
    • Pay it Forward
    • Where to find me
    • Crisis contacts
    • Self-help

​What happens when I make contact?

This is the order in which things happen:
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  1. When I receive your first message to me - unless I am on holiday - I will contact you within two working days and will offer you a free, twenty-minute, online Meet and Greet session.
  2. In advance of this, I will also send you an initial basic information form so that this info can be shared without taking away time from what you want to talk about.
  3. If, after the Meet & Greet, we decide to work together, we will arrange three sessions. These allow us to work together to begin exploring your questions and issues. 
  4. After these three initial sessions, we will take stock of things, to see if we are on track and if therapy is working for you.  
  5. At this point, you may decide that you have got what you wanted and we can finish our work. Alternatively, it may be clear that there is more to do. 
  6. Should you wish to continue, we would do so, making any necessary changes to the work to ensure its best fit with you and your needs. 
  7. We would then continue to work, until such a time that an ending seems right. This can be planned in blocks of sessions, or on a session-by-session basis, according to your preference.




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