How Do I Begin?

Taking these first steps to seek counselling can be daunting. You may be completely new to counselling or have been to therapy before. You might be seeking to change therapist and are curious about different ways of working together. Whatever your circumstances, be assured that a good counsellor will respect your autonomy and abides by ‘do no harm’ ethos when working with you. It takes courage to take action towards working on your difficulties.

You can contact me to discuss on 087 6939392, drop me an e-mail at janetopkin@gmail.com or fill out the Contact Me form for me to approach you instead. We can have a brief chat about how therapy works and how I may be able to help you. We can then schedule your first appointment, in which we will go through our working agreement and confidentiality of counselling, discuss your needs, complete a brief assessment and make a rough plan for our ongoing work together.

If you are unsure about how counselling can help you, please check out the How I Can Help, Counselling Issues and How It Works pages.

Please do feel free to contact me for further information.