Depression counselling for adults in Central Milton Keynes and online across the UK — for the kind of low mood that's started to feel like your default. Therapy isn't about forcing you to feel better. It's about slowly making space for feeling at all again.
For many people, it looks more like absence, of energy, of interest, of the version of yourself you used to recognise.
Depression has a particular cruelty: the energy it takes to come to therapy is exactly the energy it removes. I work very gently with that, no pressure to be insightful, eloquent, or “doing the work” in any particular way.
I work alongside GPs and medication when relevant. Therapy isn’t a substitute, it’s a different layer.
A quiet, no-pressure conversation to see if this feels right. You don't need to explain yourself fully. Just enough to know whether you'd like to try a session.
The first session is a conversation, nothing more. No exercises, no goals to set. You don't need to come prepared. Showing up is the whole job.
Usually weekly or fortnightly, 50-minute sessions. No pressure to make progress quickly. Depression takes the time it takes — and so does recovering from it.
Individual sessions are £55 for 50 minutes. The initial 15-minute consultation is free. Payment is by bank transfer before each session.
If things feel urgent
Counselling is for working things through over time, it isn't crisis support. If you're struggling right now and need to speak to someone immediately, please reach out to one of these:
If you're in immediate danger, please call 999 or go to your nearest A&E.
That's something we'd plan for together. Online sessions are an option. Coming, even if you say nothing, still counts. The therapy doesn't ask you to perform.
For many people they work best together. Medication can lift the floor enough that therapy becomes possible. It's a conversation with your GP, I won't try to influence it.
If you're going through a particularly difficult time, occasional supportive check-in messages can be arranged. The therapy is the weekly session, but I won't leave you alone with a crisis.
That's more common than you might think. Depression doesn't always have an obvious cause, sometimes it arrives without a clear reason, or the reasons are buried under years of getting on with things. You don't need to arrive with an explanation. Finding one, if that's useful, is part of what the work can do.
No. Forced positivity isn't therapy, it's just another pressure. The work here is about understanding what's actually going on, not painting over it. Sometimes that involves challenging unhelpful thought patterns gently, but always with honesty, not cheerleading.
Need help right now?
If you're in crisis or feel unsafe right now, please contact Samaritans on 116 123 (free, 24/7) or call 999. Counselling isn't an emergency service, but I'll always reply as soon as I can.
The free 15-minute call is the smallest possible first step. Even that counts.
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