woking, guildford and online
ONLINE COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY
Craig Coventry is an experienced and qualified professional counsellor and psychotherapist based in Guildford and Woking, Surrey.
Craig also offers online counselling to assist those who are not able to travel to his therapy rooms, prefer written or video sessions, or those who request sessions outside of Craig’s regular in-office hours.
Counselling online has been growing in recent years; and has in fact a rather long history.
To cater for needs and desires for different clients, I provide email therapy and psychotherapy andEMDR through video calls using Bilateral Base.
Video Therapy
As with most therapists, I work on a contractual basis and there is a full fee charged for cancellations made within 48 hours of the appointment and a £40 fee for cancellations with 2-6 days notice. There is no fee for a week’s notice. It is a weekly rolling contract, meaning there is no set time frame, or fixed number of session on my side. You decide when you feel you have healed enough and give a minimum of one week’s notice.
Email Therapy
Email therapy can be a hugely beneficial experience. It is well known that the act of writing things down, and often deleting and re-writing, really does help an individual to think and process their thoughts and experiences in a deeper and enriching manner. As it is a form of asynchronous communication, there is time to think about what you have written before and after you send and receive your therapeutic email back, and indeed there is time to digest your response before starting the following email. Some people prefer email over face to face sessions due to being able to express themselves more freely or creatively than in face to face sessions. For others it simply suits their schedule better and offers more flexibility. The cost of email therapy is the same as my 50 minute online sessions. The fee covers 50 minutes of my time, as would a face to face session. This is including the reading of your email, processing what I have read and then writing my response.
This means you do need to keep the emails at the appropriate length for me to be able to respond appropriately to the entire email. Some online therapists stick to a more rigid word count and charge for 2 sessions if you go over. I do not take this approach, however, a rough guide would be a 1 1⁄4 – 1 1⁄2 pages using Microsoft Word with font size 11. Going over that would mean I am less likely to be able to respond to the entire email as there would be less time for me to really think about and process what you have written and I would rather reply with more thought and processing rather than touching on all points briefly. Saying that, an email with less content but greater depth may take the same amount of time as a slightly larger one at less depth. It usually takes an email or two to learn to gauge it well.