Online Therapy
Online Therapy
The same work, wherever you are
How online sessions work
We meet on a video call, same time each week, for fifty minutes.
You need a private space where you won't be interrupted. Not a coffee shop, not the kitchen while your partner's in the next room. Somewhere you can actually say what you need to say.
I use Zoom or FaceTime. Both are end-to-end encrypted, which means nobody except you and me can access what's said in our sessions. Not Zoom, not Apple, not your internet provider.
The camera is optional. Sometimes not monitoring my microexpressions is exactly what you need. Sometimes you talk more freely when you're not being watched.
The first session is ninety minutes. We use the extra time to understand what's brought you here and whether this is the right kind of work for you. After that, sessions are fifty minutes, weekly.
Who online therapy suits
People who travel for work and need something that doesn't fall apart every time they're in a different city. People who aren't in London. People who'd rather be in their own space than sitting in someone else's consulting room.
If you travel regularly, a mixture of in-person and online sessions often works well. Different things come up in each format. Clients, and I, notice new things about themselves when the setting shifts. The therapeutic relationship is the same throughout. The link between us doesn't reset because you're on a screen instead of a sofa.
Online therapy is available for individual therapy.
A different room, not a lesser one
I'm not going to tell you online therapy is better than being in the same room. It isn't. There's something about sharing a physical space that a screen can't replicate.
But it isn't lesser either. It's different. Different things surface. You're in your own environment, the defences you normally put on to leave the house aren't there. Sometimes what comes up in the first few minutes of an online session would have taken longer to reach in person. Sometimes it's the other way round.
What makes therapy work is the relationship between us, and that doesn't depend on sharing a postcode. I'm still paying the same attention. I'm still noticing what you speed past and what makes you go quiet.
The work is the work. A screen doesn't make your patterns less real or your feelings less present.
Working with expats
I work with British expats and English-speaking clients across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. If you're living abroad and want therapy in English with someone who understands what it means to be far from where you started - this is what I do.
We'll find a time that works across time zones. Most of my expat clients are in sessions during their evening or my early morning.