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I currently have availability for new clients, both in-person and online. In-person sessions take place at my practice in Anfield, Liverpool, and online sessions are available to clients anywhere in the UK.

I work Monday to Friday, including evening appointments, so if daytime slots don't work around your job or other commitments, evening sessions are usually available too.

If I'm ever fully booked or taking planned time away from the practice, I'll update this section, and you're welcome to get in touch to ask about the next available slot even if things look full. I try to respond within in a day to enquiries but please allow a couple of working days for a response.

If you're feeling anxious for no reason, stuck in patterns you can't quite explain, or carrying more than feels fair on your own, you're not alone in that, and you don't have to stay there.

I'm David, a ÌÇÐĹÙÍø-accredited, person-centred counsellor based in Anfield, Liverpool, with online sessions available UK-wide. Person-centred means the direction of our sessions comes from you, not from a fixed programme I'm working through. I won't tell you what to think or hand you a checklist. My job is to create a space where you can actually hear yourself think, often for the first time in a while.

I work with anxiety, depression, trauma, low confidence, and life transitions, along with that particular feeling of being stuck that doesn't always have an obvious cause. I also work with children and young people, drawing on experience as a school counsellor and a specialism in this area from my degree.

I hold specialist training in pregnancy and infant loss, covering miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, birth trauma, rainbow baby counselling, and infertility. I also carry a personal understanding of the grief many men experience after pregnancy loss, a pain that's rarely spoken about and even more rarely understood, and I take that seriously in the room.

My experience spans NHS primary care, university mental health services, and primary school settings, which gives me a grounded sense of how differently people carry their struggles depending on where they are in life.

I offer both in-person sessions in Anfield and online sessions across the UK, with daytime and evening availability. However you're feeling right now, however long it's been building, you're welcome to get in touch.

My practice is based in Anfield, Liverpool, in a quiet, private room set up to feel calm rather than clinical. Nothing about the space is designed to feel like a waiting room, it's a place to sit, breathe, and actually talk without feeling rushed or watched.

Sessions run for 50 minutes, and how we use that time is genuinely shaped by what you bring into the room that day. I draw on trauma-informed practice and creative therapeutic tools, including emotion cards, emotion wheels, and self-reflection activities, always guided by what feels right for you.

I work with adults, young people, and children, and I have particular experience and specialist training supporting people through pregnancy and infant loss, fertility difficulties, and rainbow baby pregnancies, alongside general anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions work.

If in-person isn't possible or preferred, I offer the same approach over video call, so location doesn't need to be a barrier.

Sessions are £50, with a concessionary rate of £40 available for those who need it. I also accept referrals through Health Assured for anyone accessing counselling through an employee assistance programme.

Before any paid session, I offer a free 20-minute consultation, either by phone or video call. This isn't a formal assessment, it's simply a chance for us to talk briefly, for you to ask anything you want to ask, and for both of us to get a sense of whether working together feels right. There's no obligation to book anything afterward.

If we go ahead, I'll send over some short paperwork through Carepatron, my booking system, which includes basic information gathering and a therapy agreement for you to read and e-sign before your first session. It's straightforward and shouldn't take more than a few minutes.

Your first full session is the same length and cost as any other, 50 minutes at £50 (£40 concession). We don't work through a questionnaire once you're actually in the room, we simply begin where you are, and the story unfolds at your pace rather than mine.

If you're nervous about that first step, that's completely normal, most people are. You can read more about what to expect from a first session on my website, davidlewiscounselling.com/first-session.