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Fees and first-session money-back assurance

The fees and conditions on this page are for face-to-face sessions. See here for fees for telephone counselling.

Fees in Bristol and Taunton

My hourly rate in Bristol and Taunton is £55 per hour, payable by cash or cheque at the end of each session (Paypal, in advance, is possible. See here for Paypal buttons and internet banking (BACS) details). For London, see below.
The initial session is always two hours for all issues and is therefore £110 in Bristol and Taunton.
If you wish to meet me first in Bristol and Taunton and ask any questions, then you are welcome and such an initial half-hour introductory meeting is free of charge.
Any 1.5 hour sessions in Bristol and Taunton are £82.50. For more complex or emotional issues I do 1.5 hour sessions subsequently, even if the interval between sessions needs to be longer, say 3 weeks instead of 1 or 2 weeks.
The interval between sessions is up to you. The most popular choice is two weeks.

My hours are not 50 minute "therapy hours", but full-length 60 minute hours.

Fees are payable at the end of each session by cheque or in cash. There is no advance commitment to a fixed number of sessions.

Breakthrough sessions in Bristol and Taunton are charged at my standard rate of £55-00 per hour. Bristol breakthough session details.

Bristol and Taunton schedule and location.

Fees in London

In London I am at present only doing intensive ("breakthrough") sessions, from a venue in Portobello Road. Breakthrough session fees have two elements, a non-refundable and non-transferrable advance setup fee of £120, plus my standard London hourly fee of £80-00 per hour. Sessions are of flexible length, and typically last six to seven hours. So a six hour session (say) would cost £120 + 6 x £80 = £600. These are among the very lowest fees for this type of extended session in central London. London breakthough session details.

To book a London extended/breakthrough session, I require an advance payment of £280-00. This is made up of
£120 setup charge plus
£160 = first two hours at £80-00 per hour.
----- The setup charge of £120 is non-refundable and non-transferrable under all circumstances.
----- The advance payment of hourly fees of £160 is
(a) non-refundable and non-transferable if you fail to attend the appointment
(b) FULLY REFUNDABLE if you attend the appointment but find after two hours that my work is not for you.

Please note that I do not confirm the date of the session until I received the non-refundable deposit. Since under UK Distance Selling Regulations you have a seven-day cooling off period on any internet purchase, this effectively means that payment must be made well in advance.

First session money-back assurance and terms and conditions

Finding the right therapist is a major decision. To assist you I offer:

If desired, in Bristol and Taunton a free no-obligation half-hour introductory meeting
(or I'm also very happy to answer your questions on the phone)
A no-risk assurance on the first session: If at the end of the first session you honestly feel that my work is not what you are looking for, there is no quibble, no question - and no charge. See terms and conditions below.

It is very, very rare for anyone to be other than delighted with their first session.

The following fair and commonsense conditions apply.

This assurance applies to the first session only, not subsequent ones.
It applies at the end of the session, not afterwards.
It is not in any way a guarantee of results (see below.) It is to let you experience my work in depth and know that it is right for you.
For intensive (breakthrough) sessions in Bristol, the assurance applies to the first two hours.
For breakthrough sessions in London, the assurance applies only to the hourly fee ie if after two hours you feel the work is not for you, there is no charge for the two hours. The non-refundable setup fee of £115 remains non-refundable under all circumstances. (See fees for London, above.)
It does not apply to telephone counselling.

Question: Some therapists don't charge unless the client gets the changes they want. If you are so confident of your work, why don't you offer such a guarantee?

Answer: No genuine psychotherapist offers a guarantee of change, ever. It implies that your happiness is in the power of someone else to ensure, and that is just not so. Your life is your responsibility. The work of therapy is to help you take that fact as a joy and not as a burden. Happiness is in the end your choice, and that power to choose is our glory as human beings. In fact, a guarantee such as that undermines the whole therapeutic relationship and makes real change more difficult, not less. Hypnotists and NLP practitioners who claim to guarantee they can change other people's lives cannot possibly be working with the core issues in people's lives.

I like my first session to be two hours because in that time, many people will already have a tangible breakthrough. That gets the work off to a flying start. But that makes the first session more expensive, and so, to let me do the work in the way I find most effective, I support the longer session length with this assurance.

I want you to have complete peace of mind. When you come to see me, you have nothing to lose but your limitations.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Gautam Buddha

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