Wandsworth · online by video, with the Hove room for occasional sessions
Psychotherapy for Wandsworth
Psychotherapy with me is open-ended weekly work for adults in Wandsworth who have tried coping harder and found the same knot keeps tightening. We meet by secure video at a fixed time each week, and look at where a pattern started as well as what it does to you now. I'm a BACP registered counsellor and psychotherapist.
The practical facts for Wandsworth
- Where sessions happen
- A private room at Intergen House, 65-67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, or secure video.
- From Wandsworth by car
- About 81 minutes with clear roads (58.7 miles); longer at busy times.
- By train
- From Wandsworth Town, change at Clapham Junction for trains towards Brighton and Hove.
- Free NHS talking therapy
- Wandsworth Talking Therapies, 0203 513 6264
- Fees
- £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90, £120 for 120. The first 15-minute call is free.
- Registration
- BACP registered member, no. 109340 (check the register); UKCP student member in advanced psychotherapy training.
What still runs underneath a changed life
Between Wandsworth town centre and the river lies the old Ram Brewery site.
Young's stopped brewing there in 2006 and the site has been redeveloped, yet a master brewer still works on it in small amounts. Personal history can work in much the same way. You can change job, or start again with someone new, and still find an old habit running quietly underneath, such as the urge to keep everyone happy or the anger you swallow until it comes out sideways. Wandsworth is busy, and it's easy to look as though you're managing there, and keeping up that look can be tiring work in itself. Psychotherapy is a place to put that work down for an hour and look at what lies underneath, slowly, with someone who has no part in the rest of your life.
Months, not a handful of sessions
Short courses are built to ease one problem, and often they do. Psychotherapy is for when the problem keeps changing shape while the feeling underneath stays the same. In the first months we get to know you: the household that raised you, the role you were handed in it, and the moments when that old role still takes over. Over time the pattern tends to show itself live, in your week and sometimes in the session, perhaps as an apology for taking up time or a sudden wish to cancel. Noticing it there, and staying with it, is much of the work. Internal Family Systems is one method I often bring in here, as a way to get curious about the parts of you that criticise or push. Nothing sets an end date in advance. We review every few months, breaks for holidays are planned ahead, and when you're ready to finish we take the ending slowly instead of letting it arrive suddenly. If a busy spell at work threatens the weekly slot, we'd look for another time that week before letting the session drop.
Where a long piece of work might begin
The same pattern, a new address
Moving from Earlsfield to Southfields, or to a bigger place by the Common, and finding the old ways of reacting arrived with the boxes.
Grief that was never finished
An old loss that comes back with every new ending. Wandsworth Bereavement Service supports people after a death, and longer therapy can hold how that loss has shaped you.
An hour around the Waterloo trains
If you commute from Wandsworth Town, a slot before your train or after you're home tends to survive a busy month better than one squeezed into lunch.
Allkind, close to home
Allkind, the mental health charity once called Mind in Brent, Wandsworth and Westminster, is a local organisation worth knowing about alongside weekly sessions.
Free and low-cost support for Wandsworth
Open-ended private psychotherapy is only one option. Wandsworth Talking Therapies is free and NHS-run, aimed at anxiety and low mood, and takes referrals straight from you. Together for Mental Wellbeing runs the Wandsworth Emotional Wellbeing Service, with six one-to-one sessions, workshops and signposting. If deeper work leaves you struggling between sessions, SWLStG's urgent help page lists Tooting Recovery Café (Hestia).
- Free NHS talking therapyWandsworth Talking Therapies0203 513 6264Free NHS talking therapy for anxiety, low mood and related difficulties. You can refer yourself, with no GP referral needed.
- If drinking or drug use is part of itWandsworth Community Drug and Alcohol Service (WCDAS)020 3228 1777Free and confidential.
- Local organisationWandsworth Bereavement Service
- Local organisationAllkind
For gambling, the National Gambling Helpline is free, day or night, on 0808 8020 133 (NHS gambling support).
Private counselling with me can run alongside any of these; you do not have to choose one or the other.
If someone at home is hurting, threatening or controlling you, the National Domestic Abuse Helpline is free, day or night, on 0808 2000 247.
If you need urgent help now
If you need help right now, please don't wait for a session.
The South London NHS Mental Health Crisis Text Service is another option: text 80991 or WhatsApp 0303 330 1511. Local drop-in crisis support: Tooting Recovery Café (Hestia) (check opening times before you go).
What people in Wandsworth ask before starting
Is there a UKCP-registered psychotherapist I can see in person in Wandsworth?
I'm not one, and I'd rather say so up front. I'm a BACP registered counsellor and psychotherapist and a student member of UKCP, not UKCP registered. My only room is in Hove, about 81 minutes' drive from Wandsworth, so we'd work by secure video, with an occasional longer session in Hove if you want one. If UKCP registration matters to you, check the register as you search.
Can Wandsworth Talking Therapies give me long-term psychotherapy for free?
Wandsworth Talking Therapies, run by South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust, is free on the NHS, and you can reach it on 0203 513 6264 without a GP letter. It's set up for anxiety and low mood rather than open-ended exploration, so ask them what they can offer you. If you want long-standing patterns explored at your own pace, with no end date fixed in advance, that is where private psychotherapy fits.
I've had short-term counselling before and the old pattern came back. Would psychotherapy be different?
It may be. Shorter work often helps with the problem in front of you, and that's worth having. When the same reaction keeps resurfacing in new settings, longer work gives time to understand where it came from and to notice it while it's happening, which takes longer. We can talk through which suits you on the free call.
How soon could I begin psychotherapy from Wandsworth, and do I need a GP referral?
You don't need a GP letter. By the end of our free 15-minute call you'll know whether a regular weekly time is open now or when one will be. If it feels right, we fix that hour and keep it. From then on we keep meeting while it's helping, and you're free to pause or stop.
How much do sessions cost, and is the first call free?
Sessions are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 minutes and £120 for 120 minutes, the same in person in Hove or by video. The first 15-minute call is free, with no obligation to book. There is no NHS referral needed to see me privately.
See whether open-ended work is right for you
When you feel ready, a short conversation is the easiest way to see whether we are a good fit. There is no obligation.