Counselling and Psychotherapy in Glasgow

Payment of session fees are to be received a minimum of 48 hours before the agreed appointment time and made via bank transfer.

An initial assessment appointment will cost £30; the counselling appointments that follow will cost £40 per session.

However, I offer a discounted counselling session fee of £35 to students currently registered with a UK college, university or counselling training provider at the time they commence counselling (please provide me with evidence of your course enrolment when returning your signed contract).

The first counselling appointment we would have together would be an “initial assessment session”. Here we would explore your situation, needs and aims for counselling in more detail as part of co-creating a “contract” for our work together.

The initial assessment session will be 60 minutes long. After the end of the initial assessment session, I will e-mail you a reminder of the time, date and location / Zoom link for our next appointment within the following 24 hours.

The subsequent counselling appointments we have together will always begin on the hour and will be 50 minutes in duration. Appointments will be booked on the same day of each week (although sometimes it may be appropriate to arrange fortnightly appointments), and at the same time.

After the end of each counselling session, I will e-mail you a reminder of the time, date and location / Zoom link for our next appointment within the following 24 hours.

The session fee will remain the same for the duration of time we work together and will not increase (however if you later become eligible for a reduced student fee the price will decrease in keeping with this change).

Part of each session fee will cover the costs of the room booking or online meeting platform we use to meet, as well as my other business costs (including my insurance, professional membership and other specific mandatory costs related to offering a professional and ethical counselling service). The remaining money is effectively my “wage” as a self-employed professional (to cover my living costs etc).

I offer a professional and consistent service with relevant boundaries appropriate to a successful therapeutic relationship and experience. Part of this way of working includes agreement of the appointment booking, payment, cancellation and partial-refund policies.

I would like to note that I will be accommodating and flexible with appointment change requests wherever reasonably possible, as I understand unexpected things can (and do!) crop up from time to time. My policies are discussed in more detail in the contract I send to each client before the initial assessment appointment, however you can see an overview here:

• If you are unable to attend a session and need to cancel for any reason, please let me know via e-mail and within the 48 hours before the session start time wherever possible. It may sometimes be possible to reschedule our appointment to another day or time the same week, and then return to our usual routine after then.

• If you need to change the time and day we meet on a permanent basis, please contact me via e-mail so we can discuss and look into arranging this.

• In the case of appointments cancelled with less than 48 hours notice the retained portion of the session fee are to contribute towards the business costs associated with providing my counselling service / appointments, including potential lost income.