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Is it worth seeing a counsellor about this? Not so long ago, counselling was seen as for the very rich, the self-indulgent, or the very strange. Increasingly, ‘ordinary people’ are recognising that spending time with a professional counsellor helps them through life’s challenges. Clients sometimes wonder ‘Is this worth bothering a counsellor with?’ If ‘this’ makes life less rich, less productive than it might be, then ‘this’ is worth a counsellor’s time. At Counselling People, we don’t specialise in problems; we specialise in our clients. Nothing is too big or small. And we do have a lot of experience working with those 'problems'. Our many satisfied ex-clients—and the Norfolk businesses we have employee-counselling contracts with—testify that our approach works. If you have more questions, you might want to jump to Counselling in general |
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Who are Counselling People? Counselling People was established in Norwich in 1998 by graduates of the counsellor training program at the University of East Anglia. Clive began seeing clients two years later and took over as the original partners moved on. He was soon joined by Ava, then Catherine. Today, Counselling People remains Clive, Ava, and Catherine. Clive has become deeply involved in counsellor training. He established a person-centered program at what is now Buckinghamshire New University and has recently accepted a senior lecturership at Glyndwr University in Wrexham, North Wales. There, he is setting up programs to train counsellors to work in schools, agencies, and private practice. In addition to seeing private clients under the auspices of Counselling People, Ava works as a health and addictions counsellor for an agency in Clearwater, British Columbia, following two years counselling in Whitehorse. Catherine has recently returned to private practice following the birth of her son. She also works as a counsellor and supervisor at the University of East Anglia. All three of us find private practice particularly rewarding. All three of us seek to offer an authentic person-centred therapy allied to an understanding of 'process' grounded in experiential focussing. For more about focusing, check out www.focusing.org For more about how we work, you may wish to jump to The kind of counselling we offer, read Clive Reflects, or explore some of his Articles For more about Ava or Clive, try Ava's Page or Clive Road |
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How much does it cost? Each client’s circumstances are unique. We seek to negotiate an hourly rate which is affordable for our clients and enables us to stay in business. That means we look to the "going rate" in the area where we are working, take into account our current overheads, and then ask what the client can afford. We do not work to a standard "counselling hour"*. Instead, we work with each client to determine the length and frequency of sessions that best suits them. We then charge for the time actually spent. In other words, we cannot answer this question without some discussion. *Clive has written a number of articles about session length. The most recent is One size won't fit all If you still have questions about cost, they may be answered in Time and money |
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October 2010 copyright Clive Perraton Mountford |
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