Caroline Naish Counselling

What is counselling?

Counselling provides the opportunity to think through the things that are causing distress, with an impartial, trained professional uninvolved in any other area of your life.

As a counsellor I do not give advice, as that would mean imposing my values on you. Instead, in a calm setting uninterrupted by the usual distractions of modern life, the emphasis is on confidentiality, support and understanding. I can help identify links between relationships and issues in your past, and your present-day ways of relating to others.

Awareness of these connections offers you the freedom to choose whether and how to change old patterns of behaviour.

How can counselling help?

People come to counselling for a variety of reasons: with relationship difficulties, with anxiety or depression, after loss or bereavement, or through an undefined sense of unhappiness with life and a wish to change. I listen non-judgementally to any issues you want to discuss and together we think about how you deal with life. Counselling can help in many ways including alleviating anxiety, coming to terms with trauma, or accepting the past, enabling you to move on and live life more freely.

How long does counselling take?

Your initial session will be 80 minutes. If we agree to continue meeting, each session thereafter will be 50 minutes and we meet regularly on a weekly basis. We decide together the number of sessions that are suitable for you. Sometimes a few sessions are enough to provide support through a difficult period. If you are looking for more substantial change, more sessions may be appropriate.

Price

Inital 80 minute session: £80.

For subsequent sessions I currently charge £62 per face-to-face session, and £65 per Zoom session.

I review my fees every September.

I accept payment by bank transfer. I will send a unique reference for the transfer to keep your identity confidential.

I invoice at the end of each month.

Availability

Face-to-face or Zoom sessions are available

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

10am-5.30pm

What is my background?

I completed my Master's in Psychodynamic Practice at Oxford University, and worked as a counsellor at an NHS centre in Oxford from 2001 until 2008. I have been working with individual adults in private practice since 2006. In addition, from 2010 to 2020 I counselled young people at a local university.

I abide by the UKCP and BACP codes of ethics.

My qualifications are: