Stephen Brown

I have availability to see clients on Mondays, daytime and evening.

What are your concerns? What are the issues you face? Therapy is about allowing yourself the space to think about and to work through your particular problems. To gain a better understanding of your life and where you would like to go. Working with you isn’t about finding a “cure” but about improving and deepening self-awareness by identifying and exploring your issues. These may be to do with relationships, work, loneliness, or just an incomprehensible lost-ness. Depression can be felt in many ways, including an overwhelming anxiety and feeling low. From not wanting to get out of bed to a manic cheerfulness and coping too well; these are some of the ways we manage our psychic pain, and I am ready to work with you with patience and attentiveness.

I also work with trauma, loss and grief: I am an experienced bereavement counsellor. I work with sexuality, gender issues and also eating disorders, self-harm and pre-suicidal states. I have expertise working with issues around ageing.

Therapy is about the relationship in the room: I set out, from the start to establish a safe and containing therapeutic alliance, based on building trust and the capacity to listen well and to think with you about what is most troubling you, and to work with you over time to improve things, where you can set a better course in life.

After an initial phone conversation, we will first meet for an introductory fifty-minute consultation where I can find out more about you and what brings you to psychotherapy: what are the problems you face and the symptoms and issues that are holding you back. This is also where you can get an idea of who I am and how I work – and whether you would like to continue. If we do go forward, sessions would normally be weekly and will be for fifty minutes.

I see clients for weekly, 50-minute sessions and may be open-ended or time-limited.

The first session, for which a £70 fee is payable, is where we both assess each other for suitability to work together. As part of my assessment, I will ask you to give a perspective on what brings you here, and also some details of your circumstances - work, family and so on.