FAQ

Session Fees

  • Individual counselling sessions: £65 per 50 minutes
    (when booked in a block)

  • Optional double sessions (100 minutes): £120
    Available occasionally where a longer session feels helpful, for example when exploring
    something specific or when a longer space feels supportive.

A free introductory call is offered before booking, giving you the opportunity to ask
questions and decide whether working together feels right.

Who are you?

I’m Auberon Hedgecoe MNCPS (Accred), a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor offering in-person
and online sessions for adults in a calm, empathetic, and confidential environment.

What is your therapeutic approach?

My therapy work is integrative, grounded in a person-centred approach, and follows the ethical
frameworks of both the BACP and the NCPS. Sessions offer a steady, supportive space to understand
your experiences more deeply and to work at a pace that feels right for you.

How do I begin therapy?

Therapy starts with a free introductory call, giving you the opportunity to ask questions and get a
feel for how I work. If you’re happy to progress, we’ll arrange an initial 50-minute session to begin
our work together.

How can therapy help me?

Start Therapy can support you in many meaningful ways, including:

  • Making sense of thoughts, feelings, and stress

  • Understanding what you want, need, and value

  • Recognising patterns and shifting unhelpful cycles

  • Exploring how past experiences influence your present

  • Strengthening coping skills for anxiety and overwhelm

  • Enhancing emotional wellbeing and resilience

  • Building self-awareness, confidence, and direction

  • Developing healthier, more fulfilling relationships

  • Creating time and space to slow down and gain clarity

  • Examining beliefs that may feel limiting or unhelpful

  • Navigating change, uncertainty, or transition

  • Establishing healthier boundaries and self-care practices

  • Feeling more grounded, centred, and steady

This list is not exhaustive — therapy is shaped around your individual needs.

What issues can therapy help with?

People come to Start Therapy for many different reasons, including:

  • Anxiety, stress, and low mood

  • Relationship or family difficulties

  • Life transitions and adjustment

  • Identity, self-worth, and confidence issues

  • Feeling stuck, lost, or directionless

  • Past experiences affecting the present

  • Loneliness, shame, or difficult emotions

  • Anger and emotional regulation

  • OCD

  • Eating concerns

  • Addiction and recovery

  • Boarding school experiences

  • Grief, loss, and bereavement

Therapy is always tailored to your unique situation.

Do you offer online sessions?

Yes. Therapeutic counselling is available both in person and online, offering
flexibility and accessibility. Online sessions are provided from the UK and meet
the same standards of quality, confidentiality, and professionalism, in line
with BACP and NCPS ethical guidance.

How many sessions will I need?

Everyone works at their own pace, and there is no fixed number of sessions.

Options include:

  • Short-term therapy (6–12 sessions)
    Helpful if you want focused support around a particular issue.

  • Open-ended therapy
    Space to go deeper and work at a pace that feels right for you.

  • Optional one-off or occasional double sessions
    Useful when a longer session feels supportive or when exploring something specific.

Feeling unsure which option is right for you, we can talk this through together during the introductory call.