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I currently have availability both online and face to face.

My current face to face availability is Monday afternoons from 2pm-5pm and Fridays from 10am-5pm. My online availability could potentially be more flexible on these days.

I will be taking time off between Saturday 27th-Monday 29th June and Sunday 13th-Sunday 27th September.

Hi, my name is Johnny. I am a straight/heterosexual white man and ally to the LGBTQ+ community. I say this having known family and friends who identify with this community and it is my hope that by saying this that anyone from this community and any other diverse group in our society are not isolated and are welcomed by me. Especially, because an important value of my therapy practice is to give you - as another person, a voice.

So, a little more about me: I am a qualified humanistic counsellor. My other backgrounds which influence my therapy practice include my studies of philosophy at Masters level and my professional work in health and social care, particularly, volunteering with the NHS and in end of life care. Something which I believe is a privilege and joy of my therapy practice is hearing about other people, their life stories and who they are. I believe every person, like you, is unique.

Regarding my therapy practice (Johnny Blanding Therapy) I offer both online and face to face counselling as a way of meeting you wherever you are.  

My therapeutic practice offers both online and face to face counselling which can be either on a weekly or fortnightly basis. My service also offers you both time-limited or brief therapy which can be between six to twenty-six sessions as well as open-ended therapy. I do have limited space for concessionary clients which we could discuss. This is all intended to meet you wherever you are at the moment and offer the therapeutic approach that would work for you.

The therapeutic practice that I would offer you is informed by many sources, including my counselling training and the insights of my clients. You can expect me to offer humanistic counselling. In my practice, this involves exploring how you are feeling in the "here-and-now" or present which could include past lived experiences that are emerging for you now as well as current life challenges. This is in the hope of giving you a voice and space to experience what you are feeling that might be distressing you and open new possibilities in your approach to living your life to a fuller way of being. My practice also offers you the choice of working creatively and with dreams. 

For me, both understanding the relationship that you have with yourself and the therapeutic relationship between us and how we are affected by each other's presence can bring needed acknowledgement by listening to your unheard feelings and being curious about negative core beliefs, for example. I believe this can be a great source of therapeutic change which is what you might expect from working together therapeutically. My therapy practice is about offering you a space of safety where in any session at any time you can bring whatever you wish to while knowing that you have been heard. 

Our first session together is a full fifty minute session with a reduced charge of £30.00 which allows us both space and time together, either online or face to face, to consider if I am the right therapist for you, and you will not have to decide there and then either.

The first session might include completing an initial assessment together unless you prefer to complete this prior to meeting. We would also read and sign a therapeutic contract together which frames from the beginning what can be expected from therapy if you chose to proceed.