‘Psychological practitioners reflect the society we live in – including its divisions. At our best, we also reflect on it, identifying its problems and offering possible ways forward; and, indeed, reflect on our relationship with it.’

Introduction of ‘Vital Signs – Psychological responses to Ecological Crisis’ (Eds. Rust and Totton)

Background and approach

I offer sessions indoors and/or outdoors and online

Working indoors and outdoors offer different possibilities.

Working indoors we are sheltered from the weather, other people and there is some sense of relative predictability in our physical environment. This environment might feel safer to some people and less safe to others.

Being outside offers the possibility of encounters with the rain, the wind, animals, trees, the ground, and sky, rivers and rocks, spaces we like and don’t like, people, human made structures, fences, barbed wire, ice, sunshine and warmth.  We go out together and we are both affected as we move about in the physical environment, needing to respond, navigate and find flexibility in relation to what is arising around us, or trip and stumble or fall. We pay attention to what is happening in the present and also to what is arising in relation to it – to our reactions to what is happening. We might walk, or find a place to sit; it is up to us. Whatever happens we start at an agreed physical place at an agreed time and end at an agreed place at an agreed time.

Often a combination of indoor and outdoor sessions are very helpful and enlightening.

Online sessions also offer an important space which are limited in another set of ways as well as offering a different set of opportunities to meeting in person. I find this also a very useful space which can also be combined with in person sessions as we decide and feels right to support the work we are doing together. We listen and we experiment and we find out as we go along.

Fees

An initial meeting for up to one hour is free of charge as this is an opportunity for us each to meet each other and find out if we want to work together.

After the initial session you decide the fee between £95-75 per hour. I do offer a number of places where a fee is negotiable, depending on your circumstances and my capacity to offer flexibility in fee at any given time.

You may find tuning into the fee you want to pay easy, or you may face some challenges. We will work with any challenges you face as part of the therapy process.