Nick Woolfenden

We can all have times or experiences in life that feel hard, or longer-term feelings that we want to explore and try to understand. Whatever your issues, counselling can provide a safe, non-judgmental, confidential space to share and explore these experiences, feelings and what might be behind them.

I am a qualified counsellor, registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I work with people of all ages 18 and over.

The thought of talking about what’s going on for you may feel easy or difficult. However you’re feeling, I provide a secure empathic space for you to begin and/or continue your counselling journey. As well as working together to explore what’s going on in your conscious thoughts, I also gently encourage exploration of what may be going on unconsciously (drawing on psychodynamic principles and practice – the BACP website describes aspects of this approach). We can look at what’s going on now, and how the past may have influenced that, and how understanding this might help shape the future.

Counselling provides a safe and confidential space to share and explore experiences, feelings and what might be behind them, and how understanding all this might help shape the future.

Counselling sessions with me are 50-minutes, on the same day and time every week. I operate from a private space in a village location in the Billingshurst area, around 15-20 minutes from Horsham, with good road and rail access. I work with people of all ages 18 and over.

I typically offer in-person open-ended counselling with no fixed number of sessions, but can discuss the option of short/fixed-term counselling (usually 12-18 weeks) at our initial consultation.

Please see details below/contact me if you’d like to explore counselling with me.

As a qualified registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP, registration no. 402684), I operate in line with the BACP’s Ethical Framework and am registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office. I have a Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling (Psychodynamic), and undertake Continuing Professional Development.

If you’ve read about counselling with me and feel ready to explore the next steps, it is generally helpful for us to have a short, up to 10-minute, phone call. This will help us think about whether to work together, including considering our mutual availability for weekly counselling.

If we both want to take things forward after this, the next step is to meet for a 1-hour initial consultation. There is a £60 charge for this (whether we progress to counselling or not).

Depending how we both feel after the consultation, we can then agree to go forward with 50-minute counselling sessions which will be weekly on the same day/time to provide consistency. These cost £55 per session. We will sign a working-agreement about how we will work and our commitments to each other. As is typical of many counsellors, I charge for sessions you can’t / don’t attend, but won’t charge for sessions I cancel.

Please contact me if you want to arrange an initial phone call or consultation.