COUNSELLING ONLINE

Would you like to access high quality counselling at a time and place most convenient for you?

If you are seeking help but cannot easily access good quality counselling that either fits your busy schedule or is accessible in your area, online psychotherapy and coaching can provide the perfect solution.

Research demonstrates that online counselling is as effective as face to face therapy, in helping people discover how to address a wide range of issues: from anxiety and depression, to relationship and career concerns.

Benefits of Online Psychotherapy

• Research indicates the results you can get are as good as face-to-face sessions
• You can access it in the convenience of your own home, office or hotel
• It can be easily accessible for people with certain disabilities
• You won’t have to spend time or money on travel
• It can enable you to organise child-care more conveniently without travelling

What Issues Can Online Coaching and Counselling Help With?

Here are some of the issues that online counselling can help you address:

• Relationship issues
• Self-esteem
• Self-confidence
• Anger management
• Stress
• Phobias
• Life transitions
• Bereavement
• Loss
• Panic
• Career
• Family problems
• Feeling trapped

How Do Online Counselling Appointments Work?

I provide online counselling and therapy using WatsApp, FaceTime and Zoom. I will provide you with a secure room/environment maintaining the highest standards of privacy and confidentiality.

Is Online Counselling Secure?

Talking to an online psychologist is very secure. In fact, online video and chat services use encryption technology, which is one of the most advanced forms of internet security that is currently widely available. Even if a person managed to intercept a message, it would be in a complex code that they would be unable to decipher.

When Can an Online Psychotherapist Help

Here are a few situations where online coaching and counselling might be the preferred method of getting help:

• Busy Schedules: If you have a very busy schedule, at work or at home, taking time out to get to and from appointments can feel like a waste, and cause unnecessary stress. Arranging a skype session from your office or home can mean you get to tackle the issues that concern you, without other areas of your life suffering.
• Accessing High Quality Therapy: If you live outside of a centre of excellence like London, sometimes it can be difficult to find the type of high quality therapy accessible there.
• Travelling Regularly: If your job or lifestyle requires you spend a lot of time in different cities or countries, online counselling can be ideal. It enables you to have regular sessions so you can address your concerns more quickly without having to deal with long gaps between face-to-face sessions which can slow down your progress.
• Living Abroad: If you are living abroad in a non-English speaking country, it can be difficult to find a good counsellor that has enough command of English or the type of training or therapeutic approach that will really suit you. By accessing your coaching or counselling online, you can enjoy the comfort of discussing your issues, in your mother tongue and accessing the type of online psychotherapy that you will feel most comfortable to work with.

Reactions that can occur during Pandemic and Quarantine Situations:

• Feelings of isolation and hopelessness
• Uncertainty regarding work and finances
• Stress around relationships and conflict triggered from being confined
• Anxiety around separation and/or caring for people who are unwell
• Children displaying challenging problematic behaviour
• Difficulty coping with unexpected loss
• Increased levels of anxiety and panic
• Depressions
• Escalation of obsessive-compulsive habits
• PTSD symptoms being triggered unexpectedly
• Nightmares
• Uncontrollable anxiety
• Hypervigilance, overcautious, wary
• Fear of Contagion

How can Counselling Help during Quarantine & Pandemic?

Counselling can powerfully help you to regain control and feel more able to navigate this difficult time.  Here are some of the ways in which our team of psychotherapists can help you develop the ability to:

• Reduce and better manage anxiety, panic, distressful thoughts and feelings
• Reduce and prevent increases in symptoms of depression
• Cope more easily and comfortably with enforced isolation
• Cope better with uncertainties regarding work and finances
• Managing relationship stressors and conflict constructively
• Maintain and/or develop positive communication and relationship strategies for coping better together (including remotely)
• Gain relief from separation anxiety
• Better manage children displaying problematic behaviour and emotions
• Cope with unexpected bereavement
• Reduce PTSD symptoms being triggered
• Calm and reduce the intensity of obsessive compulsions, thinking and fear