Therapy primarily focuses on understanding and healing past experiences, emotions, and mental health challenges, while coaching emphasizes setting goals, taking action, and achieving future growth. There can be some crossover, as both can involve personal insight, motivation, and behavioural change.

We can discuss this in the free introductory call, but broadly speaking, if you’re looking to address patterns of thought, feeling or behaviour that have been present for some time, you’re probably looking for therapy. If you’re looking to address a particular challenging situation or overcome a short-term obstacle, you might be looking for coaching.

- Emotional and Mental Health: anxiety; depression; stress; trauma; grief.

- Self and Identity: low self-esteem and self-worth; perfectionism and self-criticism; identity and life direction; body image issues; managing major life transitions.

- Relationships: relationship difficulties; partner conflict; family dynamics; loneliness.

- Behaviour and Coping: anger management; addiction and compulsive behaviours; sleep difficulties.

This is not an exhaustive list though, so if you want to bring something not covered above, therapy may well still be suitable for you.

- Career and Work: career transitions; work-life balance; burnout; leadership development; performance improvement.

- Personal Growth: purpose and direction; confidence and self-belief; overcoming procrastination; improving communication; fulfilment.

- 360 Feedback: I can facilitate this through the Life Styles Inventory tool

For standard individual therapy or coaching, the cost is £50 per session with a limited number of exceptions at any one time at discounted rates. For couples therapy, the standard cost is £60 per session.

We will have a roughly 15 minute call to discuss what you are hoping to explore in therapy or coaching, and you can ask me any questions you might have about my practice. If we feel that we’d be a good match, we would finish up by arranging a first session. This call is free.

At the start of the first session, we’ll agree a contract for our work together. After that, we will begin working on the issues that have brought you there at a pace that feels comfortable for you.

This very much depends on the individual and the issues that have brought them to therapy or coaching, but in general, therapy tends to last longer than coaching. Therapy is usually for a minimum of around 8 sessions and can be much longer (often more than a year), whereas coaching is more commonly limited to something in the range of 5-6 sessions.

This also depends on the individual and is very much driven by you. There are no rules here. But in terms of what is typical, therapy usually takes place on a weekly basis, whereas coaching more commonly takes place on a fortnightly or monthly basis. Longer-term therapy may gradually take place less frequently than weekly.

Yes, it’s fine to have some sessions in person and others online. My only recommendation here is that for people seeking couples therapy, both members of the couple should ideally be in the same room when opting for online therapy.

The standard limited exceptions apply here. I am legally required to contact the police if you disclose having committed, or planning to commit, an offence relating to terrorism, drug trafficking or money laundering. I may also disclose if you are actively planning to take any other action that would cause serious harm to yourself or others. However, I would always inform you beforehand if I was required to do this.

I am also required by the UKCP to attend regular supervision as a therapist, and in these sessions I may discuss you in an anonymised way with my supervisor. This is standard practice for all therapists, and I would be happy to tell you more about how this works.

Beyond these very limited exceptions, our sessions are completely confidential.