My Approach

While counselling and psychotherapy are generally regarded as beneficial it must be realized that this may not be so in every case. The therapeutic relations is based on trust and mutual respect, guided by the client’s developmental process. The main purpose of the therapeutic conditions - set time, set fee, ethical framework and so on - is to create and maintain a safe space in which to facilitate this development. The conditions help to create a professional working alliance. The boundaries are set according to the professional organizations I belong to as well as my own experience of what works best for my client and me. The therapeutic relationship is designed for the growth and development of the client. I see it as my professional responsibility to inform the client if it does not seem to me to be working for their benefit, or if it ceases to do so.

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Sessions, Payments, Cancellations & Holidays

We will normally meet once a week at the same time. It is sometimes appropriate for the sessions to be more or less frequent than this.

Therapy tends to work to the extent that there is commitment and regularity in the arrangement on the part of both client and therapist.

The session time is 60 minutes and the fee per session will be Rs 2500.

Charges for couples/ family sessions will be different and the session time is 90 minutes.

I work with the condition that you will pay the full fee for any session that is missed, or cancelled.

I charge this amount for other professional services you may need, though I will break down the hourly cost if I work for periods of less than one hour. Other services include report writing, telephone conversations lasting longer than 15 minutes, attendance at meetings with other professionals you have authorized, preparation of records or treatment summaries, and the time spent performing any other service you may request of me.

All appointments are prepaid. Receipts are supplied on request.

I will give you advance notice of an increase in fees. This will generally happen or at least be reviewed after an year of the last revision.

Sessions are at regular agreed times. It is not normally possible to rearrange them at short notice.

I will do all I can on my part to ensure you are inconvenienced as little as possible through missed or delayed appointments. I will inform you well in advance of any weeks I am away on holiday or for professional reasons and will give a minimum of 48 hours notice of any cancelled sessions where possible.

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