Calee Litteken

My availability varies throughout the week, with my hours typically being Monday, Tuesday and Thursday late afternoons/evenings and Friday afternoons. 

Each session is 50 minutes long and tends to happen a weekly or fortnightly basis. This can occur for as long as you feel is helpful for you.

I can offer flexibility in scheduling sessions, including some evening and weekend times. I currently offer sessions via telephone and video with greater flexibility. I can offer face to face sessions throughout the week at Tyler House in Stratford for those who would like face to face sessions. I also will consider home visit sessions in special circumstances, so please ask.

Though I only recently opened Inversions Counselling at the beginning of 2025, I have been offering counselling since 2017. My relevant experience and training are below.

I completed my counselling training at the University of North Texas in 2017, emphasizing interests in cognitive behavioural therapy, counselling adolescents and young adults and expressive arts therapy. As a queer therapist that understands identity and relationships can be integral to personal wellness, I am passionate about gender, sexuality and relationship diversity. I completed training at Southern Methodist University in LGBT affirmative therapy to better support clients of a diverse gender identity, sexuality or relationship orientation. Following my move to the UK in 2018, I completed a conversion psychology course at Coventry University, researching counselling self-efficacy with psychosis. Additionally, I have completed a postgraduate certificate of Person-Centred Experiential Counselling (PCE) at Nottingham University in 2022. I started supervising in 2024 and am undergoing the PCE Counselling Supervisor Training  with Nottingham University.

I have previously worked with a crisis and suicide response teams in Texas, providing intensive case management and counselling in difficult situations. I also worked as a hospital liaison for clients in inpatient settings, helping them transition to life following hospitalisation. I also offered counselling voluntarily with the Shakespeare Hospice for 2 years from 2021-2023, providing counselling for those in end of life care and those who faced bereavement. In addition to private practice, I also work as a counsellor for depression in the NHS. 

You're here looking at starting counselling for a reason. You might feel stuck or in a rut. You might be struggling with a particular issue, relationship, or really heavy feelings. Whatever it is, I imagine you're here if you're fed up or tired of it - that you want more from your life than this. You want and you need something different and more sustainable to keep moving forward for your loved ones or for yourself. That means you're in the right place.

My style in session is honest, warm and open. I aim to make our time and space together whatever you need, whether you need to scream, curse, cry, laugh or just be. My treatment approach is integrative (involving humanistic, person-centred, existential, and cognitive behavioural therapy), though largely person-centred.

I don't presume to know your truths or what is best for you, but aim to explore your perspectives, your feelings and support you in finding your own answers for yourself. We focus on what is important to you, in a way that feels right for you. Therapy isn't comfortable or easy, but I'm willing to stick with you through the awkward, scary and painful moments. 

Clients come to therapy for a variety of reasons. With my clients, I have worked with a range of issues not limited to anxiety, depression, phobias, sexuality, self-esteem, trauma, pre-bereavement/bereavement, life transitions, gender identity, workplace concerns, meaninglessness or purposelessness, sleep problems and abuse.

In the first session following this, we go through the counselling agreement together and then start with wherever feels most important to you.