Therapy Process
If you would like to pursue whether therapy is right for you at this time, then please Contact Us to arrange a free 15 minute consultation. We will use this time to briefly discuss what has brought you to therapy and if we are the right people to help. If you think we are the right fit for you, then we will arrange an assessment.
During the assessment, we will discuss your difficulties in more detail and collaboratively agree goals for therapy. We will regularly review progress and discuss ongoing goals. We will never work with you longer than is beneficial. All appointments are 50 minutes.
Fees: Therapy
Fees for therapy sessions are charged as follows:
- Clinical Psychology: £130 per session
- Nurse Therapist: £100 per session
- Any additional work, including the write up of any correspondence if requested, will be charged at the clinician’s sessional rate, per hours worked
Fees: Autism Assessment
We have extensive experience in the assessment of autism for children (minimum age 5), adolescents and adults. Our assessment is thorough as we believe it is important to give people the time they need to share their story, and to ensure we can confidently form an accurate opinion. Autism assessments and write up are charged at a fixed fee of £1700. This fee includes:
- Taking a detailed developmental history over two sessions (two hours)
- Completion of the gold standard in autism assessments, the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2) with a Psychologist and another allied health professional e.g. Nurse Therapist, Occupational Therapist or Speech and Language Therapist, as per NICE Guidelines
- Administration and scoring of questionnaires
- Review of relevant reports e.g. school reports, previous assessment reports
- Liaison with other services as appropriate e.g. school, other health professional
- Review information collated against diagnostic criteria (ICD-11)
- Provide two versions of written feedback report to allow more choice as to what to share with other professionals:
- a detailed one containing all information from assessment and recommendations
- an abbreviated version with information from the ADOS-2 and recommendations
- Feedback