This site describes what I do and how I can help you. My name is Samantha and I am a qualified counsellor in West Bridgford, Nottingham. I combine my professional training and experience with compassion, common sense and life experience. I work as a counsellor in a safe, confidential and non-judgemental environment.
Counselling, Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy. Bringing training, professional expertise, compassion and life experience to your journey. Where can I help you to go?
What is different about counselling with me?
YOU!!
I currently only work with individuals and couples aged 18 and over, but I have counselled people aged 5 to 86, spanning a wide range of issues and situations.
However, experience has taught me that no two people are alike so I work differently with everyone. In this way your sessions are always tailored to you.
I charge £50 per therapy session for individuals, £55 for couples. Each session lasts an hour. I offer an initial telephone consultation completely free of charge to help you and I decide if I am the right counsellor for you. If you are a student on a recognised Counselling or Psychotherapy course who needs counselling to pass your course, then I charge £45 per session.
Whatever you bring, and however we choose to work together; you will be received with warmth, without judgement and with honesty.
NEW – I am currently expanding my library of books which either I have found useful, or clients have told me have helped them. Some of these I lend out to clients. For information on these, please look at the links page.
At present, I work purely online. I spent eight months training in Canada on how to counsel clients online, using video, chat and email. I use Zoom and have a VPN to ensure that the sessions are safe. You can learn more about online therapy here.
Working online is different but no less effective than working in person. In fact, some studies have suggested that it may be more effective. This is for many reasons: because people are generally in their own home when they have therapy, they tend to be more relaxed; because people aren’t talking face to face then they tend to find it easier to disclose things that they may not do face to face. Ever shared something on the internet that you wouldn’t necessarily have said in person? This phenomenon has been noticed so many times in the research that there is now a term for it: the Online Disinhibition Effect. People can become much more open and disinhibited when we talk online, which can only be a good thing for therapy!
Please do browse through my site to learn more about what I can offer you, and counselling and psychotherapy in general.
Counselling & Psychotherapy
You may seek counselling or psychotherapy for a number of reasons. You may not know what brings you here, just that there is something not right, or missing. Or there may be so many thoughts and feelings inside you that you don’t know what to feel or think anymore. I can work with you on an open ended basis or for an agreed time period, with the aim of enabling you to enhance your life and to live it more fully.
Hypnotherapy
There are few Counsellors in Nottingham who are also Hypnotherapists. I worked as a Counsellor for many years before I trained as a Hypnotherapist, so you can be sure that we can work through any emotions that may come up for you as a result of a Hypnotherapy session.
For further information about Hypnotherapy and the way I work, please click below.
Consultancy
I am also available for consultancy work. Recently, I have provided consultancy for Supporting People Nottinghamshire around the area of empowering and involving vulnerable adults.
Fees for consultancy work are available upon request. For further information about consultancy work, please use the link provided below.
