Psychotherapy in Forest Hill SE23 and online
Nick Williams MSc., CTA, PTSTA(P)
UKCP-registered psychotherapist and supervisor
Experienced psychotherapist offering confidential counselling and psychotherapy in South East London and online.
Therapy in Forest Hill London SE23, and online
It can take a lot of energy to live with troubling thoughts, feelings or patterns. Many people find talking with a professional therapist, in a confidential and non-judgemental setting, has helped them have a better relationship with themselves and live more fulfilling lives.
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Hello...
I have been a psychotherapist in private practice in Forest Hill for 20 years.
Some people come knowing what they want to focus on, others just know something isn't right and want to explore what might be happening. Some clients come for a few months, others for a number of years.
Therapy can be a complex and sometimes challenging process. I'm always happy to talk about how its going and how we work together.
I am committed to ethical, non-discriminatory practice and welcome clients of all identities, cultures, faiths and sexualities. As an accredited member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and a member of Metanoia Institute where I trained, I abide by both organisations' ethical principles and codes of professional conduct.
About therapy...
Psychotherapy is basically somewhere to talk through your thoughts feelings and experiences, in a setting which is confidential, thoughtful and non-judgemental.
However long it lasts, therapy is a significant commitment for both client and therapist. It's not unusual to talk with more than one therapist before deciding who you'd like to work with.
If you'd prefer to work with a female therapist, you might want to contact Annie Rimmer who works nearby.
About me...
Originally from South Wales, I have lived in London for more than thirty years. I first worked in the arts and then for an international corporate company.
I started training in 1998 - first as a counsellor, then as a psychotherapist, and later as a supervisor of other therapists.
Alongside my private practice with clients and supervisees, I have worked as a sexual-health counsellor, as an honorary group psychotherapist in the NHS, and been a trainer on psychotherapy training programmes.
My approach...
My psychotherapy training was in Transactional Analysis. My way of working now draws on other therapeutic approaches as well, in response to what a client may bring.
I have a particular interest in 'relational' psychotherapy - a way of exploring repetitive, and often painful patterns, and how they might be understood, changed or let go.
I've been fascinated by the work of Carl Gustav Jung for many years, and work with dreams if a client wants to bring them.
Issues that therapy may help with include...
Anxiety
Panic attacks
Relationship difficulties
Self-harm or suicidal feelings
Grief, loss or bereavement
Feeling different
Trauma and stress
Depression
Anger and power
Making sense of childhood
Lack of confidence or self-esteem
Sex and sexuality
Difficulties at work
Feeling 'something isn't right'
Where I work
I work in Forest Hill, London SE23. My practice is about 5 minutes walk from Forest Hill station, which is served by Southern train services between London Bridge and London Victoria, and Overground services between Highbury & Islington and Croydon.
Online sessions can take place on a number of different platforms.
Times and fees
Individual therapy sessions last 50 minutes and take place at the same time each week.
My standard fee for each in-person or online session is £70.
Contact
If you'd like to contact me, please use this form to email.
If you would prefer to speak or leave a voicemail, you can call me on 07812 568 063
All enquires are treated as strictly confidential.
Some frequently asked questions
Counselling tends to be seen as ‘short-term’ work with a problem that can be looked at and discussed in a clearly-resolvable way. Therapy is a word used more to describe longer-term work; discussion that tends towards substantial issues at a deeper level.
Whether counselling or therapy work best as a short- or long-term option depends on the client though, and the difficulties they are facing. In some cases counselling can prove helpful as a continuing, longer-term option, and therapy occaisionally resolves an issue in just a few sessions.
There’s no fixed or ideal length of time for the counselling process; it varies from person to person and will often depend on the depth of the issues they want to explore.
This depends on what your needs are. Some people find that after only a very few sessions they have some clarity and focus and choose to end. Other people value the ongoing support and the therapeutic relationship and come for weeks, months, or years.
Confidentiality is one of the main ways in which therapy differs from many other forms of helping; talking to friends or family can rarely offer the same degree of confidentiality. The confidentiality and trust between a client and therapist can allow the work to go as deep as necessary.
I'm happy to discuss confidentiality in depth with clients for whom this is a major concern.
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