Joanne Harris

I work Mon to Fri within the hours of 9-7pm 

Hello I'm Joanne, offering counselling or psychotherapy to Individuals or Couples in Queens Park, NW6 and Maida Vale, W9.

Are you experiencing difficulties and feel you are at a point where some professional help is needed? Do you need a space to work through something that cannot easily be shared or resolved with friends/family or your partner? 

Individuals 

I will work with you in a warm and supportive way to explore whatever brings you to therapy. 

If appropriate we can agree to use the technique of Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) to resolve what can be hard to resolve through a talking therapy approach alone. 

Couples

I will work with you both in a collaborative, engaged and empathic way using the Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples approach (EFTC). The focus will be on the interaction between you, what is happening and what is or isn't being said, felt, understood. My role is to help  you to share your feelings and thoughts with each other in a safe way to build more connection, openness and good feeling in the relationship. However, we start with where you are and what's going on.

Habitual ways of dealing with emotions and engaging with each other may be creating distress. Changing the negative cycle involves having new experiences in the relationship, especially being able to speak and hear your partner and their vulnerability in a context of safety which I aim to facilitate.

I offer both individual and couples a 50mins appointment which will take place on the same day/time each week. 

Individual sessions cost £90.

Sometimes individual sessions involving EMDR will be 90mins. These sessions cost £140.

We can agree a number of sessions or leave the work open ended.

Couples:

The first two sessions are with you as a couple. Then you will each have an individual session. The purpose of this is to get to know you, your family and relationship history. After the individual sessions we return to sessions with you as a couple, although there may be more individual sessions if needed.

All joint sessions are £140, the two individual sessions are £90 each.

I may be able to offer a reduction on my fees so please ask.

Therapy Agreement

At the initial appointment I will give you my Therapy Agreement & Guidance Notes with clear information about privacy, holidays/breaks, holding/cancellation fees. You will take this away and If we decide to work together I ask you to sign and bring it back to the 2nd session for me to sign and return to you. 

I record couple sessions for supervision and training purposes so if you agree to this I will send you a consent form to sign.

For individuals, the first session is a loosely structured assessment to ensure I can help you. I will ask questions to help me get a picture of who you are: ie. work, family & living situation, any previous therapy experience and what brings you to therapy. 

For individuals who are interested in EMDR only the first session will be a detailed history assessment to ensure I will be able to help you. Please see my website for more information about EMDR.

For couples I will invite you both to say what brings you to therapy for help and what you would like to achieve, what you feel your strengths are as a couple and what needs strengthening.

I will give each partner a chance to speak and I may ask each of you to respond to what you hear your partner say.

We can decide at the end of the first session whether to continue or you may go away and have some time to think about it.

My working hours are between 9-7pm Mon to Fri but please contact me to find out about current availability.

Hello I'm Joanne, offering integrative psychotherapy and counselling to Individuals or Couples in Maida Vale W9 and Queens Park NW6. 

Please see my website for information about the psychotherapeutic trainings I have undertaken and my background.

Individuals

I will work with you in a warm and supportive way to explore whatever brings you to therapy.

If appropriate we can agree to use the technique of Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) to resolve what can be hard to resolve through a talking therapy approach alone.

Couples

I will work with you both in a collaborative, engaged and empathic way using the Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples approach (EFTC). The focus will be on the interaction between you, what is happening and what is or isn't being said, felt, understood. My role is to help you to share your feelings and thoughts with each other in a safe way to build more connection, openness and good feeling in the relationship. However, we start with where you are and what's going on.

Habitual ways of dealing with emotions and engaging with each other may be creating distress. Changing the negative cycle involves having new experiences in the relationship, especially being able to speak and hear your partner and their vulnerability in a context of safety which I aim to facilitate.

I offer both individual and couples a 50mins appointment which will take place on the same day/time each week. 

Individual sessions of talking therapy cost £90.

Some individual sessions involving EMDR will be 90mins. These sessions cost £140. I record EMDR sessions for supervision and would ask for your consent to do this. 

Please see my website for more details about EMDR.

We can agree a number of sessions or leave the work open ended.

Couples:

The first two sessions are with you as a couple. Then you will each have an individual session. The purpose of this is to get to know you, your family and relationship history. After the individual sessions we return to sessions with you as a couple, although there may be more individual sessions if needed.

All joint sessions are £140, the two individual sessions are £90 each.

I may be able to offer a reduction on my fees so please ask.

Therapy Agreement

At the initial appointment I will give you my Therapy Agreement & Guidance Notes with clear information about privacy, holidays/breaks, holding/cancellation fees. You will take this away and If we decide to work together I ask you to sign and bring it back to the 2nd session for me to sign and return to you.

I record couple sessions for supervision and training purposes so if you agree to this I will send you a consent form to sign.

For individuals, the first session is a loosely structured assessment to ensure I can help you. I will ask questions to help me get a picture of who you are: ie. work, family & living situation, any previous therapy experience and what brings you to therapy.

For individuals who are interested in EMDR only the first session will be a detailed history to assess your experience of trauma and to ensure I will be able to help you. Please see my website for details of the structure of EMDR therapy.

For couples I will invite you both to say what brings you to therapy for help and what you would like to achieve, what you feel your strengths are as a couple and what needs strengthening.

I will give each partner a chance to speak and I may ask each of you to respond to what you hear your partner say.

We can decide at the end of the first session whether to continue or you may go away and have some time to think about it.