Any therapist worth their salt will have gone through or be going through many months of their own therapy. Personally, as a client, I wouldn’t want to go to see any practitioner who hadn’t been through this experience and come out the other side – more or less still standing. I believe that therapists who have significant unconscious and unresolved issues of their own can at best be ineffective and at worst cause harm. This doesn’t mean that therapists should be completely s

I am sometimes asked by potential new clients if I am prepared to see them fortnightly rather than on my usual weekly basis. I understand that counselling or psychotherapy is a major commitment both in terms of time and cost and that on the face of it meeting less frequently might seem like a good idea. But, is it really? I work in a relational way; I am interested in how you and I interact with each other. In my experience, exploring what it feels like to be together in a