Some Important Considerations : -
For those genuinely unable to afford my fee; I am an ethical practitioner
with humane values. I am willing to negotiate a concession with anyone who is both deserving and in genuine need.
Things You Need To Understand About Therapy
No matter how large or small the problem appears, therapy is a serious undertaking. In this work, good data are required to maintain effective momentum. I watch and listen carefully - and I ask a lot of questions.
I also think a lot - both during and between sessions !
Though conducted in a very relaxed manner, this is very demanding work.
In session I tend to work several strands in parallel, creating conditions to enable you to work more freely on the unconscious level. Often you will have only a vague sense of the relevance of what we are doing - but, in its own time, the unconscious makes the connections - and delivers - often
better than I might have hoped or imagined !
There is a strictly limited number of hours in the day for which one can sustain this degree of concentration. This will also vary with degree of complexity and stage of work with the current mix of clients.
Conscious and unconscious work also goes on both with the client and the practitioner between appointments. Effectively this achieves a state of readiness for the next scheduled encounter. Conseqently each therapy acquires its own rhythm. Unnecessary disruption to this this process and this rhythm is in neither of our interests.
Recognising the pressures under which many of us live and work I do my
best to be as flexible as I can in offering appointment times. But in order to
use the process to best effect and out of consideration for myself, I need to match and balance my workload - which is carefully arranged.
I would ask you to respect these considerations when seeking an appointment or asking to change it.
I am a FULL-TIME practitioner with 25 years experience, an unusually extensive background and relatively rare skills. I want to work with those
who genuinely want my help. I really dislike having my resources
squandered inconsiderately.
Whilst re-arrangement of an appointment with adequate notice allows me a reasonable chance to re-schedule my activities; re-scheduling with less than three days notice is virtually impossible without causing disproportionate inconvenience to myself and others. Consequently, gestures like this will incur a charge.
Please make sure you read my cancellations policy.
Those inclined to treat arrangements like this casually or who do not care who works with them would probably do better to look elsewhere.
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Copyright Keith Bibby - Clapham August 2007
