TERMS OF THERAPY

CONTACT DETAILS

Email: shari.psychology@gmail.com
Emails will be picked up 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday (working days) and responded to as soon as possible.

THERAPY FORMAT & FREQUENCY
Therapy takes place via online video appointments (usually Skype). Most commonly, sessions take place on a regular, fortnightly basis, though this may be flexible where needed.

NUMBER OF SESSIONS
To be mutually agreed and reviewed at any time during therapy. Therapy might be open-ended, time-limited or flexible according to your wishes and clinical needs.

QUALIFICATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
I am a Chartered Counselling Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. I am also registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council) and I am an accredited CBT therapist with the BABCP (British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies).

FEES
£120 per session for individual therapy – sessions last 45-50 minutes.

Fees can be paid by bank transfer or using the sharipsychology.com website. If you would like to pay via your private health insurance, please provide me with the details of your insurer. Please note that, due to additional administrative work, higher rates apply for insurers.

Please ensure fees are either paid before each session takes place or within 24 hours. I will be unable to offer you a next session until the fees from the previous one are settled.

Fees may be reviewed and changed at the start of each financial year (April). Should there be any changes, you will be notified of these in advance.

CANCELLATIONS
I will always give you as much notice as possible if I am unable to attend a session and ask you to please do the same. Please understand that if sessions are cancelled at short notice, I will be unable to offer the time to another client. It is therefore necessary for me to apply the following charges irrespective of your reasons for cancelling.

If you need to cancel a session:
Cancellation with more than 2 working days' notice: no fee.
Cancellation with 1 working days' notice: half of usual session fee.
Cancellation with less than 1 working days' notice: full fee payable.

CONFIDENTIALITY
​I believe that confidentiality within therapy is very important. I will not communicate with anyone other than you or your referrer about your therapy without your explicit consent to do so (for example if you should request me to liaise with your health insurance provider).

Please understand, however, that I will be required to break confidentiality should I be instructed to submit therapy notes by a court of law or if I have concerns about your safety/welfare or the safety/welfare of others whom you may mention.

Please also be aware that I receive regular supervision where your therapy may be discussed with a view to optimising your care. You will remain anonymous in any supervision context.

Any therapy notes from our sessions will be password-protected on a laptop and paper notes will be kept locked in a secure environment.