Confidentiality

I offer private and confidential help to my clients. Being a member of the BACP, I adhere to their code of ethics. I will not normally give your name or any information from or about you to anyone other than my supervisor unless we have reason to believe that someone, especially a child, is at risk of serious harm.

Confidentiality is core to the success of good counselling. However, there are circumstances where confidentiality is difficult to sustain. These are instances when legal requirements to divulge information fall under the following Acts of Parliament: The Drug Trafficking Act 1986, The Road Traffic Act 1988, The Children’s Act 1989, The Terrorism Act 2000 and The Money Laundering Act 2007.

If I do have to breach confidentiality, I will inform you in advance if possible. For your own safety, I will need an emergency contact address and the address of your GP’s surgery. I would exercise discretion in the unlikely event I have to break confidentiality.

Violence and abuse is an issue for many people who come to me for help with their relationship. I know from my experience that in this situation, working with both partners together may not be safe. If this is so, I would help each partner to get individual specialist support from either myself of another agency.

Your confidentiality is ensured - I am registered with the Information Commissioner's Office under the Data Protection Act 1998

Terms and Conditions

Each session is for 50 minutes, and will start and end on time.

Lateness will mean a shorter session, unfortunately.

Prepayment scheme: Two payments will be collected on the first session, one payment made in advance and no payment on the final session.

All booked/agreed sessions must be paid for; this includes missed or cancelled sessions.

Appointments that are not kept (no matter what the reason) or cancelled within 48 hours will be chargeable in full.

If you are unable to keep your appointment, having given me more than 48 hours notice, I am happy to offer an alternative appointment during that same week where I can.

If a session is missed and I am not notified, the future availability of the slot cannot be guaranteed.

Endings

I would hope to be able to give you a minimum of 4 weeks notice for termination of counselling/PST/EMDR should it become necessary to terminate for any reason, other than by mutual agreement. I would also recommend that you consider at least 2 weeks notice of ending to allow us to have a proper conclusion should you wish to terminate the counselling/therapy.


Complaints

I am registered with BACP, CORST and ASIIP (www.bacp.co.uk, www.cosrt.org.uk, www.adleriansociety.co.uk ) and work within their ethical framework for good practice in counselling and psychotherapy. If you feel that I have acted unprofessionally and we are not able to resolve the matter, there is a complaint procedure.

Fees

£80.00 per session for Individual (One to one) Counselling
£85.00 per session for Couple Relationship Counselling
£90.00 per session for Psychosexual Therapy (PST)

£80.00 per session for EMDR (Trauma) Therapy

I also have a limited number of lower priced sessions for students or for people with low incomes. Please get in touch for more details.

Telephone counselling, e-mails and texts outside the sessions will be charged at £2.50 per minute. This charge does not apply to calls regarding booking or altering appointments. Fees may be subject to increases in the future.

Payments by cash, cheque or bank transfer only. All cheques must be supported by a cheque guarantee card and made payable to M Kurimbokus.

One is always in the dark about one’s own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself - Carl Jung