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Entering Psychotherapy or Counselling will be a new experience, and you
may find it helpful to consider these points:
 | People seeking psychological help can be referred by their GP or other concerned professional, or may
make contact directly themselves.
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| An initial appointment will be offered, usually within a week, if there
is a vacancy in the Practice. This is an introductory meeting, lasting
about 60 minutes, providing opportunity to meet the therapist
and begin to share and explore current difficulties and concerns. It
also offers the opportunity jointly to assess, whether therapy or counselling may be indicated at this time; or whether some other form of
help would be appropriate.
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| Where appropriate, psychotherapy (or counselling) will be offered to
you. This is an important step in anyone's life. But if we feel, after
careful discussion together, that these would not be appropriate at the
moment, other forms of help can be considered and discussed together,
and a next step identified.
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| Clients will usually arrange to attend for one session per week, this
will, if possible, be arranged for the same time each week. This
regularity may hopefully enhance the experience of emotional containment
and 'holding'. The
sessions last for fifty-five minutes. |
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