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“How much do you charge?”
My basic fee is 80€ per hour for
an in-person session.
This is a 60-minute hour.
Telephone and email consultations
are 45€ per half hour (30 minutes).
These are mostly used by regular clients when they are travelling.
If you would like to pay for a session
online, click the PayPal icon.
“How often do you recommend a
session?”
This depends on what you are
working on and what treatment modalities you select. In general,
clients who are embarking on a period of self-transformation choose
to have closely spaced sessions: twice a week, weekly or
fortnightly.
Others, who are looking more for
generalised support in an on-going change process may come once
every three weeks, once a month or every six weeks.
Still others come for the
occasional “check-in”, having a Metamorphic session or a Tarot
reading seasonally, approximately every three months.
And there are clients who come
for Healing or ‘crisis intervention’ as the need arises.
So it is really up to you to
choose what meets your needs – or what you are in the mood for - at
any given moment. I am here to help in whatever ways I can.
“How long does it take to
change?”
Of course this depends on you –
your commitment to your change process, and your prior experience of
personal work. Since we are doing counselling and not coaching, your
willingness to face perhaps uncomfortable truths about yourself and
to work through your fears and inhibitions takes the time it takes.
It is important not to rush your psyche, to avoid unnecessary shock
by being gentle and nurturing to yourself as you shed old patterns
and give birth to the new you.
Traditional psychoanalysis is
judged to take four years of five weekly sessions. In my experience,
even a more superficial psychotherapy experience, to be real and
meaningful, requires at least two years of regular (once or twice
weekly) sessions. Very short commitments of six weeks can be
helpful, if you are focused on the work you are doing and very open
to your own processes.
At the other end of the spectrum,
I will only work with someone for a maximum of nine years, because
no matter how fruitful the exchange, I believe it is important for
you to change teachers after nine years to have a new perspective
and to ensure that you maintain your autonomy.
So the answer is up to you – the
kind of “accompagnatrice” you seek and the resources you are willing
and able to commit to yourself at this time. And the idea you have about this
when we start our work together can certainly change in
the course of your personal development.
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