Melanie Kinross

I can be available during the daytime or early evenings, week days or Saturday mornings.

If you are feeling overwhelmed, lost, anxious, or depressed, you might find that counselling can help. I can offer a safe and supportive therapeutic space in which we can explore the things which might be holding you back from living the life you want to live. Seeking help can be a big step, but rarely one that you will regret.

I offer reasonably priced phone or online, short or longer term counselling, with young people, students or adults - our initial free phone discussion would cover how many sessions might be useful, affor5dable and appropriate. 

I have experience with many presentations: anxiety, depression, loss, trauma, relationship difficulties, workplace stress, among others. 

My experience:

For children and young people: I have worked as a Schools Counsellor in several schools in West Sussex for 12 years, but now also offer private work over the phone, zoom or facetime. I have found that children aged around 10 years and upwards can work well with me online.

Students and adults: I have experience with Employee Assistance Programme counselling and my Private Practice working with adults of all ages. This work is often but not always shorter term, which means we identify achievable goals and work hard to develop your strengths and resilience in order to achieve them.

Hourly sessions are charged at £40 for daytime appointments and £50 after 6pm and at weekends.

I can work long or short term, and usually weekly meetings but fortnightly can also be useful. The foundations of my work are psychodynamic, and I draw from Attachment theory to help understand how relationship patterns emerge and grow.

I offer a kind, curious attitude which is challenging enough to promote growth but empathic enough to stay real and safe.

Working online has opened up new opportunities for therapy - it is now easier to access and presents more of  level playing field. We can all be in comfort while we work.

We can meet using Zoom, phone or e mail during the current Covid-19 crisis. 

As soon as it is safe to do so I will offer face to face sessions, but some might prefer to stay with the online or phone.

I can discuss the work with you initially for free in a phone call before a commitment is made.

We can discuss the presenting issue, and get an idea about how many counselling sessions might be necessary. In the current pandemic, I am not offering face to face counselling, so work with younger children will have to wait until it is safe to do so. I have found that children age 10 and over can sometimes manage online or phone sessions, depending on the individual.

I use a number of measurement methods so that we can keep track on how we are doing.

I can offer sessions during the day or early evenings, or Saturday mornings.

I supervise Counsellors from any modality, and my training was in psychodynamic counselling with children and adolescents.

I work with trainees and qualified clinicians, working with children, adolescents and adults.

In the current time I am offering supervision sessions over Skype or Zoom.

In our first session we would discuss what you need to get from Supervision, and where you are in your Counselling journey. We will include your organisational requirements, frequency and how you see yourself and your work.

I will also discuss my expectations as we go into a supervisory relationships in terms of preparation for sessions and paperwork.