Simon Rogers

Hello

I am currently available for in person counselling on Fridays and online, phone or video on Wednesdays. I have some limited evening appointments. 

Please contact me to discuss availability.

I am an Integrative Counsellor trained in a variety of different methods including Person centred therapy, Transactional Analysis and Gestalt therapy. What all these methods have in common is they are relational and depend on the client (you) and the therapist (me) being able to create a trusting safe relationship. 

By listening, reflecting and questioning we will uncover the thoughts and behaviours which contribute to you feeling and acting the way you do. I hope to be able to work with you to shift what's holding you back, bring you into greater awareness of yourself and enable you to make real choices about how you want to live your life.  

What I Offer

A chance for you to explore your thoughts and feelings with a trained professional. I provide a non judgemental confidential space for us to explore the reasons you came to counselling. I will listen to you in an unbiased emphatic manner allowing you to deeply explore what is troubling you. I do not give advice, rather we work together to identify issues and support you to develop your own solutions to what troubles you.

I understand that one size does not fit all in therapy. For this reason I'm flexible and patient, we work at your pace and I'm happy to integrate different approaches to ensure we're getting the most from our time together. 

I have a background in children's social care and special education. I have managed teams in both those settings and understand at first hand the potential pressures of these environments for children, parents and workers.

I am a boarding school survivor myself and welcome people who wish to explore the legacy from their school days. 

I am proficient in BSL and have knowledge of Makaton this enables me to communicate with sometimes hard to reach people.

I offer adult sand tray therapy, a technique which enables clients to become aware of their sensory and imaginative responses to what they bring to session.

My in person practice is based just off the high street in Uckfield. Clients have said they enjoy being able to access a session and then get a coffee to reflect upon their time with me.

I offer a free twenty minute consultation either by phone or video. This is not a therapy session but it is an opportunity for us both to gather information. I will ask you about what has brought you to contact a therapist and what you hope to achieve from our sessions.

We would not usually book a session then , rather I would encourage you to think about what you felt during and after our conversation. It is important that you feel we can form a working relationship. 

In the next few days following this meeting I will send you my terms and condition and privacy statement which I ask you to read and agree to via return email should you wish to continue to a counselling session. 

I will then contact you to make necessary arrangements.

I realise this process may appear somewhat long winded but I really want you to enter therapy with agency and intent. Allowing space to consider what  you are embarking on is the best way I have found to do this. 

I am a trainee supervisor following mainly the Seven Eyed Model and Integrated Developmental Model (IDM). I am trained in both these models as well as specifics for supervision online and Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR).

A requirement of my course is I log an amount of practice hours. Therefore I am looking for supervisee's either in person or on line who feel they would benefit from some free supervision. All these sessions are overseen by my own clinical supervisor.    

We would hold an initial conversation, either online or via phone. If you wanted to proceed we would move to contracting and agree times and dates.