Ginny O'Conor

I work on a Tuesday from 11:30-6 and Thursday from 11:30-6

I trained as a person centred counsellor 15 years ago and although this still underpins the way I work, over the years I have integrated other ways of working into my practice. I particularly enjoy working with creative materials. 

The most important thing to me is that you feel safe and secure in an environment that is non judgemental. Although there are various methods informing my work what’s important to me is that I get to know you and what you might need as we work together. My role is not to tell you what to do or to give you advice, but it’s to help you find the answers by listening to you and giving you the space to explore feelings, thoughts and behaviour that aren’t working for you at the moment. 

I will work at your pace with whatever you want to look at each week. 

Once you have made an enquiry, I will respond by email to arrange a time for us to meet for an initial meeting.  This will be free and last about 30 minutes and will give me a chance to get to know a bit about why you’d like to come for counselling. There will also be bit of admin for me to do . 

At this session we will arrange a convenient time for us to meet. The number of sessions can vary from as little as 6 to over a year. It’s something that we will review over the weeks of working together. 

My fee is £60 for 50 minutes. 

Our sessions will be confidential , which means that no information will be disclosed other than in the following circumstances. 

a) Under the requirements of BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy)I need to meet with my supervisor and I will use your first name but not any other identifying details about you.

b) I will need to keep factual notes after each session which will be kept in accordance with GDPR regulations. 

c) The only time I would break confidentiality is if I feel that you are a danger to yourself or someone else, but as far as possible, I would do this with your permission. 

My first session with clients is free and will last 30 minutes as it will be to find out a bit about what each client is looking for and to do a small amount of admin.