James Elder

I believe that trust is essential for counselling relationships so I’ve listed below some of the things people usually need to know before they reach out, but if you have any questions, email me and I’ll do my best to see if I can help.

An experienced therapist with thousands of hours of clinically supervised practice.

BA (Hons) Integrative Humanistic Counselling

Integrative therapeutic approach including:

Person Centred

Existential

Gestalt

Supported by specialist training and experience in addiction, bereavement, youth counselling, couples therapy, attachment theory, motivational interviewing, nature therapy and trauma.

Former lecturer on the counselling degree course for the University of Greenwich.

Head of Clinical Practice for a global online counselling service.

I mostly work online, using videocall technology which means that I have clients from all over the world. This offers my clients the confidence, convenience and confidentiality of being able to do therapy from their own private space.

I usually offer sessions during UK office hours: 9-5, Monday to Friday.

As a Â鶹ԭ´´ member I am bound by the ethics and confidentiality of my member organisation and can explain this in more detail if you’d like.

I’ve worked with a lot of different issues and kinds of people in my practice and am very familiar with ways to accommodate neurodivergence, culture, gender and sexuality into the way we work in therapy.

The first session is always a mixture of my clients trying to tell me everything they can about the issues they’re facing whilst I learn about their world (and take a bit of history).

At the end I give my initial understanding of the issues my client is facing and some potential therapy approaches and options for ways we might work together to find the answers. 

Following that we usually start with four sessions and see what kind of difference we can make.