Is something blocking you in your personal or professional life? Perhaps you know that there are some specific issues you need to work though or that something just doesn’t seem quite right? Would you like to feel more relaxed, confident, and connected?
Hi, my name is Richard. I help adult individuals and couples understand themselves, express themselves, and feel better in themselves.
I offer a listening ear and can guide you through transformational approaches that engage directly with your feelings and imagination. The work can be emotionally intense so I like to keep things lighthearted and informal.
Sessions are in person in Bethnal Green or online in your own space. A session costs from £75 with block booking discounts and concessions available. Times are flexible to fit with your schedule and most people choose 70 minutes over the standard 50 minute ‘therapy hour’.
What’s bothering you?
Do you have emotional stuff that is affecting your life? Are you experiencing issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma, bereavement, relationships, work issues, deep seated family patterns, shame & guilt, phobias, or OCD? Have you suffered enough?
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| Anxiety | Depression |
| Knotted up inside? What feared outcome are you protecting yourself from? | Life getting on top of you? What is it that you are pushing down and not expressing? |
| Trauma | Bereavement |
| Torn apart by a horrible experience? How can you come back to yourself? | Grief not passing? How can you let go with love so you can continue living your life? |
| Relationships | Work issues |
| Love on the rocks? What’s yours, what’s theirs, and how can you connect with kindness and honesty? | Stress grinding you down? How to manage relationships, ask for what you want, and work at your best? |
| Deep seated family patterns | Shame & guilt |
| There is no escaping where we come from. How did your parents fail you and how can you build relationships of true respect, pride, and gratitude? | Good people sometimes do bad things. Making children believe that they are bad, for example. |
| Phobias | OCD |
| Irrational fears intruding into your life? When were you scared out of your skin and how can we get you back in your body? | Thoughts running away with you? What are you really avoiding or afraid of? |
Your path to getting back in the flow
1: Find a therapist you think might be able to help
2: Contact me to arrange a free half hour chat
3: Meet online or in person at my Bethnal Green therapy room
My offer to you
I offer practical psychotherapy to remove emotional blocks and reconnect you with your true self.
I will invite you to talk about your experience of life. Where are you now? Where would you like to be? What needs to change? As we explore and reflect I will encourage you to notice any emotions and allow them to express themselves. I may suggest alternative perspectives, physical, or imaginative techniques to help the change happen.
The principles I embrace include: depth of change; speed of change; empowering teamwork; humour; energetic rapport; positivity; taking time; and flexibility.
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| Depth of change | Speed of change |
| Complex symptoms are the result of relatively simple root causes. Together we can find and heal any old traumas that are driving your current behaviour. | Talking about your problems is not always enough to change them. My approach is gently direct and I will coach you to face your fears and express your emotions. |
| Empowering teamwork | Humour |
| What you think is weakness may well be an opportunity to unfold. I will help you recognise and harness the power you already have within you. | Therapy can be serious without being somber. |
| Energetic rapport | Positivity |
| I can feel the emotional energy in and around your body. We can dissolve or remove any blockages together. | Negativity is avoidance. I will guide you into the void and help you recover your natural positive self. |
| Taking time | Flexibility |
| A standard 50 minute therapy ‘hour’ is over in no time. I offer longer sessions to make your visits more valuable. | Not everyone can commit to the same slot every week. I offer flexible appointment times from 8am to 7pm. |
My qualifications & experience
I have studied psychotherapy since 2002 and have been registered as a UKCP psychotherapist since 2008.
In my early life I trained as an engineer and worked as a management consultant until I had an emotional breakdown and experienced therapy for the first time. I was blown away!
Since then I have experienced, studied, and practiced many forms of therapy including NLP, metaphor therapy, hypnotherapy, plant medicines, and empathic energy work. I seek to integrate what works into an approach that bridges the practical and the spiritual.
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Professional memberships
- Registered Psychotherapist – United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
- Accredited member – Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapy and Counselling Association (NLPtCA).
Core Neuro Linguistic Psychotherapy training
- Postgraduate Diploma in Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapy (NLPt) – LifeTide Training.
- Master Practitioner of NLP – Performance Partnership.
- Master Practitioner of Emergent NLP – Holigral.
- Various trainings in Grovian Metaphor Therapy / Clean Language – David Grove, The Developing Company, and others.
Peripheral psychotherapy training
I have incorporated aspects of these approaches into my practice:
- Introduction to psycho-spiritual integration – Ravenscroft International and Holigral.
- Hypnosis (Hypnotherapy) to master level – Performance Partnership.
- Time Line Therapy to master level – Performance Partnership.
- Encounter centred Couple Therapy – Hedy + Yumi.
- Various couple therapy trainings – Juliet Grayson.
- Business / family constellations – Business Constellations.
Other training
These form a background to my work:
- Hawaiian Huna level one – Dr Susi Strang & Associates.
- Reiki level one – Andrew Southern.
- De-escalating psychedelic crisis – PsyCareUK.
- Master’s Degree in Engineering, Economics, & Management (EEM) (2.1) – University of Oxford.
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science (distinction) – University of London.
My values
I am passionate about keeping therapy effective, ethical, and free from ideology. As a founding member of Just Therapy I share the values of: non-judgement; neutrality; identity-politics free zone; evidence-based practice; exploration, not affirmation; resilience; and free speech.
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| Non-Judgement | Neutrality |
| I won’t pass judgement on you because of your beliefs, opinions, or viewpoints, political or otherwise. | I won’t preach or push ideologies on you, such as gender ideology or critical race theory. I am a clinician, not an activist. |
| Identity-politics free zone | Evidence-based practice |
| I will view you as the individual that you are and not make assumptions about you, positive or negative, just because of your skin colour, religion, sex or indeed any other characteristic. | I am guided by scientific and evidence-based theories. |
| Exploration, not affirmation | Resilience |
| I do not view my purpose as being to tell you whatever you want to hear. I will explore what you bring to sessions openly and may even challenge you, in order to help you get to where you need to be. | We are not fragile, in need of safe spaces or trigger warnings. My goal is to build up your strength and resiliency, rather than enabling self-perpetuating narratives of victimhood. |
| Free speech | |
| I believe that human beings and societies flourish when they embrace free speech and do not attempt to shut others down. |
My fees
Our initial 30 minute video consultation is completely free.
| 50 minute “therapy hour” | 70 minutes (most popular) | 90 minutes (good for couples) |
| £75 | £95 | £110 |
I reward block bookings with free sessions and offer some concessionary rates. I am registered with a number of top health insurers and can bill them directly.
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Sessions are paid for in advance – usually at the end of the previous session. I take cash, PayPal, and direct bank transfer.
Block booking discounts*
I offer new clients the opportunity to buy two sessions and get the third one free. This gives us some time to get to know each other and for you to assess the value of our work together.
From then on most clients choose to pre-pay for blocks on the basis of buy six sessions and get the seventh one free.
* These discounts only apply to clients who are booking directly with me and not to those who are utilising health insurance or who have used a referral site that charges me a fee.
Health insurance
I am registered with Aviva, AXA, WPA, and Vitality. Please contact them first to get a pre-authorisation number. I am able to bill these companies directly.
Weekend sessions
Weekend sessions are sometimes available at a supplement of £20 per session.
Concessions
I offer concessionary rates for veterans and other blue light workers. Please contact me for details.
In person sessions in your space
I can offer sessions at your home or office. In addition to the session rate clients pay:
- Second class return public transport travel expenses from Bethnal Green, and
- My travel time charged at half the session rate, pro-rata.
Where we meet
We can meet in person in East London, online in your own space, or a combination of the two.
My therapy room is in Bethnal Green next door to York Hall. The address is St Margaret’s House, 15 Old Ford Road, London E2 9PJ. It is a 4 minute walk from Bethnal Green Underground Station and served by the 106, 254, 388, and D6 busses.
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Why continue to suffer when things could be easier?
Frequently asked questions
l don’t claim to be able to tell your fortune. The psychic I’m referring to here means “relating to the soul or mind” and the plumbing is, as you might expect, a network of pipes. For me “Psychic Plumbing” is a useful metaphor for therapy:
- Pipes are your relationships with yourself, other people, and other things.
- Water is the energy moves through you and between you and others.
- Blockages are emotional contractions that have been created in response to past experiences.
- Flow is how life can be when you are more embodied, inspired, and confident.
The general idea is to disconnect you from the things or people that no longer serve you and to clear any blockages from the relationships between you and your nearest and dearest. As we do this natural motivation, action, and growth can emerge.
I like to start by asking you what you’ve been noticing in your everyday life, and how you’d like it to be different. As we talk there will probably be a moment when we touch on something that evokes an emotional response. This is our opportunity to go deeper.
As we transition from ‘talking about’ to ‘moving through’ I make much use of my intuition and energetic sensitivity to support and guide you towards things that you may have previously avoided or found difficult. Sometimes this may involve some intense emotions rising to the surface and being expressed in a safe and responsible way. At other times it can involve moving into a profound state of relaxation and contemplation.
Towards the end of many sessions we turn our attention towards the future. I usually suggest some simple homework to continue the transformation or embed the change.
I work with couples so long as both partners are willing to invest in the relationship.
At their best relationships can be loving and supportive containers that allow each partner to learn from the other and, through creating harmony together, to develop as individuals far faster than they would have been able to on their own. At their worst they are miserable prisons that the inmates choose to stay in because they are afraid to escape.
Are you both willing to face each other and yourselves in order to explore what is going on between you and take responsibility for your part in it? Are you both willing to change?
I can work with you both to create intimacy between you. I will coach you to come together and develop your presence, empathy, and honesty. I cannot promise that you will choose to stay together. I can promise that, whatever the outcome, you will both get to know more about yourself, more about your partner, and more about how to be with another person right here, right now.
Absolutely. I am not gay myself but consider myself an LGB ally. I am sensitive to the issues that many gay people have experienced and continue to experience. I have supported many gay clients to accept themselves, heal difficult family dynamics, and relate more openly with their partners.
As a gender critical therapist I am not able to offer affirmative therapy and respectfully refer on clients who are seeking this. If you are detransitioning or already questioning your trans identity I am happy to discuss the possibility of engaging in exploratory therapy.
Yes. I offer concessionary rates for veterans and other blue light workers. Please contact me for details.
Weekend sessions are sometimes available at a supplement of £20 per session.
If you would like in person sessions but can’t make it to Bethnal Green I may be able to come to your home or office. In addition to the session rate clients pay:
- My travel time charged at half the session rate, pro-rata.
- Second class return public transport travel expenses from Bethnal Green, and
Therapy is a team game and sadly, as with life, there are no way I can guarantee that you will get the results you desire. What I can guarantee is that I will do my level best to work in your highest interests and that we will have regular reviews of our progress. If things are not working out I will support you in exploring other options.
Some things that you can do to maximise the probability of our success together are:
- Be honest – tell me what is really going on not what you think I want to hear.
- Be curious – sometimes we need to peel back the layers in order to address deeper problems.
- Be willing to experience emotional intensity – feeling and expressing emotions is part of the therapeutic process.
Any other questions?
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