Helen Leaper

I currently have some evening face to face availability within my practice. My evening hours are currently 6-9pm on a Tuesday and Thursday evening. I also offer online/telephone counselling.

I also currently have some day-time availability for face to face and  online/telephone counselling within my practice.

I am an experienced and qualified Counsellor based in Walton on Thames offering counselling to clients with a wide range of issues which are detailed below.   I also have an extensive social work background where I gained substantial experience in working with traumas such as child abuse, domestic violence, and drug and alcohol problems.   In addition, I am experienced in relation to the area of children with special educational needs and the challenges faced by these families.

In working with you, I am committed to providing you with counselling within a safe, confidential and non-judgemental environment where you will feel accepted.  I hope my mature insights, warmth and empathy will encourage you to share some of your more difficult feelings with me as our relationship grows.  I in turn remain committed to sitting with you through your more difficult and painful moments, as your history unfolds.  In my relationship with you, I aspire to be congruent at all times, paying due regards to my own thoughts and feelings.

My counselling approach is Integrative and underpinned by a relational and developmental framework.  Essentially, this means that I regard our therapeutic relationship and the developmental history you bring, as important issues for us to consider as we work together.  I am flexible in my approach and draw on a wide range of psychological therapies in order to provide a tailored response to your personal history and needs.

I am happy to work with you on an open-ended basis or for an agreed time-period, with the aim of enabling you to enhance your life and live it more fully.

Please feel free to visit my website:  www.helenleapercounselling.co.uk  for further information.

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Our first session will be referred to as an Initial Consultation.  This first session will give us the opportunity to meet, to consider what has brought you to counselling/therapy at this point in time and to see how I may help you.

As our relationship will be integral to therapeutic progress, it will be important for us to consider how we feel about working together in this first session.  There will be many opportunities for us to review the therapeutic relationship and progress throughout the longer-term counselling process.

The Initial Consultation will last for 30 minutes and will cost £25.00.