SESSION STRUCTURES & COST ARRANGEMENTS

The number of sessions required will vary from client to client. The initial session provides an opportunity for you to talk about what you are looking for from counselling and how best to meet your needs. 

All first meetings are titled as an "initial assessment session". This is an opportunity for us to spend time together and gives me a chance to provide you with a thorough assessment of you and the issues that have bought us together, as well as to discuss the main reasons for you seeking service. It is also an opportunity for you to assess if you believe that we would be able to work together and ask any questions of me that you may have. If I am not the right person to be of assistance to you at this stage I will endeavour to identify a suitable alternative option and share any findings or ideas from our initial meeting with the receiving practitioner (with your permission) to make your journey to finding assistance as easy as possible. This additional sign posting and sharing of information will be included within the Initial Assessment fee and incur no additional cost*. 

The initial assessment session lasts for around sixty (60) to ninety (90) minutes. In the case of working with young people some of this time will be spent with both the young person and accompanying parent/guardian/significant accompanying adult, and some of the time with the young person alone. Towards the end of the session we will be able to discuss initial considerations and ideas, and negotiate a way forward.  

I offer both time limited (6-8 sessions) or open ended, long term work (with built in and ongoing reviews of 8-12 sessions)*.

All sessions following the initial assessment are for the therapeutic hour of fifty (50) minutes.

SESSION COSTS - Individuals and young people

  • First meeting & initial assessment - £100 (90minute session)

  • Individual Session - £80 for 50minute session - also known as a therapeutic hour (Following first meeting & initial assessment)

CANCELLATION POLICY

If you need to cancel an appointment for any reason please notify me by email, text or phone call with as much notice as possible. If you are unable to give at least 24 hours notice however, there will be a cancellation charge of half the nominal fee for the session*.

If you cancel with less than 12hours notice, the full session charge maybe applied*.

LETTER WRITING & COSTS

From time to time it may be necessary for a letter to be written to your General Practitioner (GP). This is usually considered good practice when you are prescribed medication. This denotes that you are under "treatment" facilitated by your GP and attending counselling or therapy sessions can then be considered an addition to that treatment plan, necessitating the need for a short letter. At all times we will discuss the need of letter writing should it arise, and the letter will always be discussed with you in the first instance, shown to you in draft form for checking and where possible editing, and then sent with your approval. The only time this process may not be followed, is if there is a concern surrounding risk to your self, others, or not doing so would not be in the public interest, even during these times where ever it is appropriate to do so, this will be done in liaison with you as far as possible. 

Letters to your GP will be charged between £25 to £50 per letter**. In all cases this charge includes time spent preparing the letter, collaboration with yourself, amendments, postage, and additional copies being sent to other parties where required. Letters and cost of creation will be discussed with clients prior to sending. Where the client is not the named funding agent, it is the clients responsibility to speak with the funding agent prior to the letter being created.  

REPORT WRITING & COSTS

From time to time and in some circumstances it may be necessary for a report to be written outlining the work being undertaken in sessions and to outline the plan for future sessions. Where this is required, costs are usually negotiated as part of the work being undertaken. Where this is not the case, report writing is usually carried out at a standard hourly rate of £50.00 p/h. 

complex case work, meeting attendance & other costs

For information on costs for complex case work, including meeting attendance, court reports please click here.

*subject to / on a case by case basis

**costs will be calculated on a case by case basis

 

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(ClearView Counselling & Psychotherapy is a trading name of ANJ Consultancy Ltd)