I work with adults from 18+.

Young people and students 16+.

I work face-to-face and online.

Counselling & psychotherapy sessions are 50 minutes.

Single Session Therapy (one-off) is 60 minutes.

Assessments are 75 minutes.

Couples sessions are 80 minutes.

Prior to the first appointment, I am happy to offer a free 15-minute telephone consultation to discuss what you would like help with and how I can be of help.

My fees for therapy are:

£95 for Private individual sessions (in Surrey Hills, GU5, & Online)

£150 for Single Session Therapy (SST)

£170 for Couples’ sessions

£170 for Organisations

£170 for Private individual sessions (in London)

£250 for Written assessments

Concessions available for trainee therapists.

Full payment is required in advance of any session via bank transfer, or PayPal.

Please contact me as soon as possible to let me know. Please note that sessions cancelled within a 5 working day period are still payable in full.

To make an appointment please complete the contact form.

Alternatively, email me on carolina@talkingtherapy.uk,

Or, leave a written or voice WhatsApp message on +447719 959578.

I will reply within 24 hours.

This varies depending on the nature of what you bring to therapy and your goal. I offer both short-term and long-term therapy.

Short-term individual: some people come to see me for short-term therapy and solution-focused therapy, with a goal/s to work on and may only need +12-20 sessions.

Long-term individual: some benefit from ongoing psychotherapy and support, and this maybe months or even years. I will collaborate with you and we will review your progress at regular intervals.

Single Session Therapy (SST) individual: I offer single sessions to help you focus and address a specific issue and give you the space and opportunity to think and explore when needed. SST is highly focused to help you select a possible solution to your problem, by focusing on your strengths, inner resources and external resources. It gives you the experience of the solution in the session, if possible, and helps you develop an action plan. After the SST, you may decide to continue with short-term therapy.

Couples Marriage Counselling Programme: I offer a 12-week marriage counselling breakthrough programme to build the foundations of a strong relationship. My approach is relational and empowering, based on Emotional Focused Therapy, positive psychology, attachment theory, values and strengths, with weekly exercises to help you rebuild trust and connection.

In your first few sessions, I carry out an initial therapeutic assessment to ascertain how you’re doing mentally and physically, and establishing your safety levels, which is an important starting point for your therapeutic sessions.

Thereafter, you may wish to:

• describe your current problems and symptoms, and the background to these

• provide a bit more information about how different aspects of your life have been in the recent past, such as your health, medical history, emotional wellbeing, relational, social and work circumstances, and the day-to-day aspects of life

• think about the goals you would like to work towards

And why are endings so important in therapy?

Previous endings in our lives, sudden or gradual, may leave us with unresolved or complex emotions. Consequently, the idea of endings in therapy is to experience a healthy ending - a positive experience of an ending. Once we have experienced a healthy ending, it is a lot easier to assimilate into our pattern of behaviour, and hopefully help us replicate it in other aspects of our lives and develop new, more positive patterns and secure attachments in our lives outside of therapy.

So when you’re ready to end short- or long-term therapy, please talk to me about this in the sessions. It is best for you to give at least 2 weeks’ notice, and longer if you can. Concluding therapy presents an empowering opportunity for us to reflect on your progress and accomplishments and address any feelings of loss that may arise during the final sessions. So we can work towards an acknowledgment and celebration of what is ending, with a view to what the future will bring.

Counselling is generally short-term and looks at current issues and symptoms you are facing with a fixed goal. It is often known as brief therapy, time-limited therapy, or solution-based therapy with a distinct goal in mind (for example, looking at negative patterns of thinking). Short-term counselling has a tighter focus than long-term therapy and spans around +12-20 sessions. It can serve as an excellent starting point to gauge if deeper therapeutic work is needed. Whereas psychotherapy is more in-depth and facilitates long-term change.

Psychotherapy looks more deeply at the root causes and unconcious processes of your current suffering that may be affected by past experiences or traumas, bringing you a new awareness which helps ongoing change. Therapy may involve some psychoeducation, such as understanding the patterns in how you relate to people and learning more about your unconscious processes based upon your childhood experiences, your attachment bonds and patterns, or how your autonomic nervous system (ANS) reacts to stress or trauma.

I offer Integrative psychotherapy and counselling, which is a flexible, collaborative, and holistic approach to therapy that considers your whole mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. I offer a pragmatic approach and draw on different psychological theories and psychotherapeutic techniques to help you explore and cope with your problems and needs. I integrate techniques from the following modalities to provide a comprehensive and effective therapeutic approach:

• Humanistic theory

• Person-centred theory

• Relational therapy

• Attachment theory

• Trauma-informed approaches

• Interpersonal neurobiology

• Psychodynamic and objects relations

• CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)

• Neurobiology and the effect of trauma on the body and mind.

• Transactional Analysis

• Existentialism

• Internal Family Systems