Catherine Jeffs

I am developing my Private Practice and can see clients face-to-face in consulting rooms in Maida Vale, London W9

I am a psychodynamic counsellor/therapist and work with the conscious and unconscious mind to help clients with a range of emotional issues and psychological difficulties. I worked in the Counselling Service in Universities, the NHS and now in Private Practice  

I will make contact via phone or email and agree a fee for the session. I am currently seeing clients face-to-face in my consulting rooms in Maida Vale. The first session will be paid for in advance or following the session and you will be invoiced at the end of the month for subsequent sessions. The sessions are weekly and cancelled sessions will incur a fee if made less than 24 hours notice. The first session, or sometimes between 1 - 4 sessions, are  assessment sessions, during which I will ascertain, whether I can offer you what you need and for you find out if you can work with me.  It is a two-way process. 

I take an assessment at the start of counselling/therapy, during which I will ask questions and take notes. The questions will cover your current circumstances, work and relationships and will also look at your past relationships in your family. I invite you to think about the impact of your past relationships and experiences on the difficulties you are currently experiencing. this is a collaborative process, we will either agree a focus for future sessions or that you will be better helped with another psychotherapeutic approach elsewhere.

I am developing my Private Practice and using consulting rooms in Maida Vale, London W9. I can see supervisees individually, in pairs or trios, fortnightly. Individually for an hour and in pairs or trios for 2 hours. Exceptionally, I can see supervisees monthly but prefer to work weekly or fortnightly. 

I am a psychodynamic counsellor and provide psychodynamic supervision.

I like to discuss one or two clients on the counsellor/therapist's case-load in depth, each session, rather than a brief overview of all the clients. This allows for all of the counsellor's clients to be discussed in depth if we meet frequently. 

Counsellors/therapists give an overview of their clinical work, placement or private practice and their organisation's expectations from me, as a supervisor to write reports.

The practitioner will discuss a detailed assessment of a new client and a verbatim report of a client they wish to discuss. In group supervision, their peers will discuss the presented material before I give feedback on the presentation, my counter-transference and the counter-transference of the supervision group. 

As a supervisor, it is important that I highlight any risk and facilitate individuals and groups to discuss potential risk and safeguarding issues of their clients, in the supervision session.     

I will contact the supervisee by phone and email, and confirm they have a minimum of 500 clinical hours. Whether they want individual, paired and or group supervision. Check my availability, day and time, with their availability. Lastly, agree the fee. 

Once confirmed, I will forward details of my consulting rooms in Maida Vale, W9 and how to access the room.