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Hi, I'm Joe. I'm an integrative counsellor offering face-to-face sessions in Exeter, as well as online and phone counselling across the UK. I offer a warm, thoughtful and collaborative space where you can talk openly about what feels unsatisfying, difficult, stuck or painful.

I work with clients as individuals because I believe there is no single approach that suits everyone. At the heart of my work is the therapeutic relationship: being alongside you with care, trust, curiosity and respect, and creating a space that feels safe enough for you to explore whatever has brought you to counselling.

Whether you are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, low, disconnected, or facing a period of change, therapy can offer a place to slow down and make sense of your experience. I listen carefully to how you understand yourself, your relationships and your place in the world, and together we can explore what you are experiencing.

My approach is led by you. I believe you already carry important knowledge about what you need, even if it feels hard to access at first. As well as exploring difficulties, I pay attention to the strengths, resources and ways of coping you already have, so that we can build on what is already helping.

Therapy cannot erase the past or remove every difficulty, but it can help you understand yourself more clearly and respond to life with greater flexibility, self-acceptance and confidence.

Our work may help you to:

• Understand patterns in thoughts, feelings and relationships

• Make sense of anxiety, low mood or feeling stuck

• Navigate life transitions and uncertainty

• Develop greater self-acceptance and emotional resilience

• Feel more connected to yourself and others

I offer sessions of one hour; online, by phone or face to face in Exeter.  

I believe that clients know what they need to work on in therapy and so am directed by them in terms of what we discuss in sessions.  I listen carefully for how you experience yourself and your place in the world and for what you feel needs to change and what you are able to do yourself to enable that change.  

I often notice and focus on things that you are already doing to deal with issues you are facing and to experience greater satisfaction and joy in your life and through our discussions of these existing strengths and habits, build on them.

I offer a free 15 minute phone consultation to discuss what you are looking for in counselling sessions and to arrange our first session.  

After the phone consultation I offer the first session at a lower cost as it is of a different type to regular sessions.  In the first session we will spend time agreeing how we will work together and the boundaries and expectations of the relationship.  This involves me sharing some key information both in our discussion and in writing and asking questions.  Because of this the first session is much more directed by me than routine sessions where it is much more helpful if we are led by you, the client.  

Towards the end of the first session, if we both agree to work together we will arrange a regular session time where we will meet weekly.