Fees
Specialist support, without making cost the main barrier
50-minute session — £60
I have deliberately set my standard session fee at £60.
Private psychological support can be expensive, particularly for people who need more than a small number of sessions. I don't want the cost of specialist support to automatically exclude people who could benefit from it.
My aim is to offer thoughtful, clinically informed work at a fee that is more accessible than many private practices.
The fee reflects the time, experience and professional expertise involved in the work, while also reflecting my decision not to build the practice around maximising income.
What the fee includes
Sessions are individually tailored rather than based on a standard programme.
Depending on what you need, our work may involve:
- Understanding complex patterns and experiences
- Psychological formulation
- Trauma-informed therapy
- EMDR where appropriate
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Understanding dissociation
- Exploring the relationship between psychological and physical experiences
- Understanding ADHD and neurodivergence
- Developing practical strategies for change
- Making sense of experiences that don't fit neatly into one diagnosis
I don't believe that more expensive automatically means better.
What matters is whether the person you are working with understands what you are experiencing, whether the approach is appropriate, and whether the work is useful to you.
Neuroscience-informed coaching
Therapy
50 minutes — £60
The work is individualised according to your needs.
There is no requirement to commit to a fixed number of sessions. Some people benefit from focused work over a relatively short period, while others need longer-term support.
We will review the work as we go.
50 minutes — £60
Coaching is offered separately from psychological therapy.
It is generally focused on the present and future, helping you understand patterns, develop practical strategies, make changes and work towards meaningful goals.
If you are unsure whether coaching or therapy is more appropriate, we can discuss this before deciding how to proceed.
Why £60?
I have chosen this fee intentionally.
I want The Life Of Your Choosing to be a private practice, but I don't want it to operate on the assumption that specialist psychological support should be priced as highly as the market will bear.
There are costs involved in running a professional practice, and the fee needs to reflect the time, training, professional responsibility and experience involved.
At the same time, I have deliberately chosen to keep the fee lower than many specialist private practices.
Accessibility is part of the way I want to work.
This is not a limited-time introductory price or a reduced service.
You receive the same professional attention and the same commitment to the work.
Is this the right service for me?
The fee shouldn't be the only consideration when deciding whether to work together.
The most important question is whether what I offer is appropriate for what you need.
Therapy may be appropriate where you are experiencing psychological difficulties, trauma-related problems, dissociation or significant emotional distress.
Coaching may be more appropriate when the emphasis is on development, practical change, behaviour and future goals.
Sometimes another form of healthcare or specialist support may be more appropriate.
If I don't think the service I offer is suitable for your needs, I will tell you.
Longer sessions
Where a longer session is clinically or practically appropriate, we can discuss this in advance.
Cancellations
Your appointment time is reserved specifically for you.
If you need to cancel or rearrange an appointment, please provide as much notice as possible.
Appointments cancelled with insufficient notice or missed appointments may be charged.
The cancellation arrangements will be explained before we begin working together.
A different kind of private practice
The Life Of Your Choosing isn't built around selling as many sessions as possible.
I would rather the work be thoughtful, useful and appropriate.
Sometimes that means working together for a longer period.
Sometimes it means helping you understand something that has been troubling you for years.
And sometimes it means recognising that you no longer need the work.
The goal isn't to keep you in therapy.
It is to help you understand yourself, create possibilities for change and have more choice about what comes next.