What Are Counselling & Psychotherapy?
Counselling and psychotherapy are both talking therapies. They offer a safe, supported relationship in which difficulty, confusion, or emotional pain can be explored. The terms are often used interchangeably. In practice, the boundary between them is fluid. What matters most is that the work meets you where you are.
Broadly speaking, counselling may focus more on current concerns, life transitions, and practical emotional support. Psychotherapy often involves deeper exploration of longstanding patterns, early experiences, and the ways the past continues to shape the present. Within the profession, psychotherapy can also reflect additional postgraduate training and a capacity to work at greater psychological depth, particularly with more complex or long-standing issues.
At Place To Talk Therapies, all associates are experienced professionals who have continued extensive training beyond qualification. This allows for an integrated approach to counselling and psychotherapy, with the depth, pace, and focus of the work thoughtfully adjusted to suit each individual.
Therapy isn't about being fixed. It's about being understood often for the first time in a way that actually reaches you.
Our Approach
At Place to Talk Therapies, we work integratively. Our team of counsellors don't follow a single rigid model instead, we draw from a range of well-evidenced approaches and tailor the work to you: your history, your nervous system, your pace.
At the heart of our practice is a relational, shame-aware, and somatic way of working. This means we pay attention not just to what you say, but to how you carry what you're going through in your body, your patterns, and the space between you and your therapist. Some of the frameworks we draw from include:
This isn't therapy-by-formula. It's responsive, human, and grounded in what actually helps.
What to Expect
Sessions are 60 minutes and held weekly or fortnightly, either in person or online. There's no pressure to arrive knowing what you want to say. Many people begin simply by talking and we find the thread from there.In your early sessions, your therapist will take time to understand what's brought you here, what you're hoping for, and whether you feel like a good fit together.
The therapeutic relationship itself is central to the work how you meet, how misattunements are repaired, and how trust builds over time all become part of the process. Progress in therapy rarely looks like a straight line. There may be sessions that feel quietly significant, and others that feel uncertain, both have value.
Who This Is For
People come to therapy for many different reasons. You might be navigating something specific, a loss, a relationship breakdown, a period of burnout, or you might carry a longer-standing sense that something isn't right, without quite being able to name it. We work with adults across a wide range of concerns, including:
We also work with therapists and other helping professionals seeking personal therapy, people who spend their days holding space for others and need somewhere they, too, can be held.
Ready to Take a First Step?
Getting in touch can feel like the hardest part. You don't need to have it figured out before you reach out that's what we're here for.
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