Helping You Find & Forge Your Own Path

My practice address is below:

1 Highbury Crescent

Highbury & Islington

N5 1RN

I have helped people with issues and difficulties including depression, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, bereavement, addiction, stress, burn-out, feeling stuck, post-traumatic stress, addictions, self-harm and eating disorders. Issues including facing a difficult life change – birth of a child, adoption, divorce, death, illness and so on.

I offer attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapy.  My psychotherapy is also relational. I am also trained in the Self-Leadership and developmental models and use aspects of them in session. Where there is an agreement, I can also provide a full self-leadership (IFS) psychotherapy.

My present practice hours are from Tuesday to Friday. Please make an enquiry as evening appointments are sometimes available.

At first, and sometimes this can take extra consultation, I will take your history and we will explore your current issues. We will then decide together if spending some time in therapy would be of benefit to you. You will be able to ask questions and find out more about the therapeutic process. More importantly, we can both decide whether to continue working together.

Sessions are usually once a week. There can sometimes be times when it is clinically appropriate to have sessions more or less frequently.

Sessions are 50 minutes long and take place at the same time on the same day of every week except for holiday times.

Sessions range between £60 and £90 depending on the time of day, frequency and circumstances.

Once therapy starts, the same time is set aside every week to maintain the regularity and ensure continuity of your sessions for the duration of your therapy. To ensure this, payment is due for all sessions, including the ones you cannot attend.

After four to six sessions you will probably have an idea whether the therapy is likely to be beneficial. It is often helpful to have a review with your therapist at this point to decide whether to continue or terminate.

Psychotherapy has no set limit on its duration. If you are looking to concentrate on an immediate issue, you may decide to spend between a few sessions to a few months and stop at the point where you feel the particular issue has been laid to rest. On the other hand, people decide on long term therapy to work through more complicated and deeper issues. Long term therapy may take up to a year or a few years.

You may choose to end therapy at any time. Normally, either or both of us may reach the conclusion to terminate along the line. It is always beneficial to explore this decision together before working towards ending on a date that you and I agree on.

Email: caroline@achordoorofhope.org

Mobile: 07813448350