Making Contact
Phone: 07301 205 990
Email: richardjameskelly1@gmail.com
To begin, I usually recommend meeting for 2-3 consultation sessions. These consultation meetings are a chance for me to hear about you and to begin to understand what has brought you to psychotherapy and what you hope to gain through the process. It will also give you a sense of what it is like for us to be together and whether a psychoanalytic way of working is right for you.
Together we will determine whether psychoanalytic therapy will be valuable to you and so whether to continue. If this does not seem the most suitable approach I can make recommendations for alternative forms of treatment and support.
Sessions and Fees
Given the nature of psychoanalytic work, regular sessions at a set time are essential, at a frequency of at least once per week. More intensive work, meeting two or more days per week, is common in psychoanalytic therapy and can be discussed following the consultation period or as we progress.
Initial consultation meetings, 50 minutes in length, are £60.
Ongoing sessions of 50 minutes are usually £60, with a sliding-scale of reduced fees if meeting more than once per week.
I ask for payment via bank transfer on a monthly basis, sending a bill at the beginning of the month for the preceding month of sessions.