Claire Henry

Limited availability 

I am a Counsellor and Psychotherapist and use my experience and knowledge to understand the whole of your experience and explore your options in a strictly confidential way and without judgment. 

Our purpose will be to work together and seek to know how your past has informed you, exploring with different ideas, thoughts, beliefs, memories, feelings and sensations. As you gain self-awareness you will begin to recognise the obstacles and learn to overcome them in a way that feels right for you. This leaves you open to make good choices for yourself and enjoy being the unique individual that you are.

The work we will do is relational and developmental. This means that I place emphasis on the primal human need to be in contactful and attuned relationships in order to live well and thrive. My aim is to provide you with the relational and developmental conditions that may have been unavailable to you in the past. Conditions that allow you to develop your own sense of self, support you in your uniqueness and help you to make choices that are right for you in order to live well and thrive. 

We will work together as allies to create an authentic, human to human therapeutic relationship. My authenticity helps you to develop your own authenticity and find acceptance in being ok just as you are. We can really get to know what makes you tick, and what you need to live life freely and without the learnt self-judgment that often keeps people stuck.

Please refer to my website www.clairehenrytherapy.com for more information. 

It is best to start by sending me an email: claire@clairehenrytherapy.com We can then arrange a suitable time for a 10-15 minute phone call to introduce ourselves. After this you may wish to book an initial session in order for us to meet. This session gives you the opportunity to describe your goals and hopes for therapy, any fears you may have about starting and for you to ask any further questions about what you might experience in working with me. I'll also be able to get to know more about you and if I feel I'd be able to support you in reaching your goals. At the end of this initial session we can decide if we feel we're the right match and book future sessions to start our work together.

There's no such thing as a silly question, I understand that beginning therapy can feel daunting, and I will l do my best to put you at ease.

First and all future sessions last for 50 minutes and cost £55.00.

Please note that sessions are weekly,  I don't offer bi-weekly sessions. 

It is important to acknowledge that taking the first steps to come to therapy is not always easy. It is courageous to ask for help and be willing to take the first steps towards sharing your concerns and difficulties especially with someone you’ve just met! I never cease to be moved by the choice to start therapy, especially for the first time and I hope to assure you that I will offer you the care and respect that you deserve.

First sessions are about getting to know each other.  There's no need to rush or feel under pressure to tell me everything all at once. Sometimes it's hard to know where to start, and that's ok, I'll help you to make sense of what might feel like a tangled ball of wool at first.  

It's true to say that therapy can be hard work!   Opening old drawers of experiences and emotions that have been stored away, sometimes for many years, can be distressing and make you feel emotions such as sadness, anger or frustration.  It's ok to feel all your range of emotions in your sessions, in fact I encourage it, because allowing yourself to feel strong emotions in a safe way is a pathway to healing and at the very heart of the purpose of therapy.  I'm experienced at keeping you safe and I help to contain your feelings so you don't have to carry them alone.  

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