Sarah Whitmore
You do not need to arrive with the right words. Most people start with something vague, and that is where we begin.
View profileCounsellors, psychotherapists and supervisors across the UK. Registration, insurance and supervision are confirmed before anyone appears, and a listing that lapses comes down.
Every card carries the same checks, and there are no reviews or star ratings anywhere on this site, by design. Where a listing is featured, it says so on the card.
You do not need to arrive with the right words. Most people start with something vague, and that is where we begin.
View profileI work with people who look fine from the outside and are exhausted by keeping it that way.
View profileA first session is a conversation, not an assessment. If you go blank, we sit with that, and it is fine.
View profilePeople often come to me after a long time of managing alone. Deciding to stop managing alone is the work already begun.
View profileYou are allowed to try one session and decide it is not for you. That is a result, not a failure.
View profileAsking what it costs is a normal first question, and I would rather you asked than stayed away.
View profileThe badge is not a rating and it is not an endorsement. It is a record of three things a person confirmed, and confirms again each year.
Their registration is checked against their professional body’s own public register, and the expiry date is held so a lapsed membership takes the listing down.
A current professional indemnity certificate is seen, not promised. Cover that runs out is chased before it does.
UK therapists are expected to have their work overseen by a qualified supervisor. The arrangement is confirmed, because it is the profession’s own safety net.
Coaches and wellbeing practitioners carry a different badge with fewer checks, because coaching is not a regulated profession in the UK and there is no register to check. The card says so plainly. Read exactly how verification works.
Every town page lists people who work there in person, alongside those who work online with anyone in the UK.
NHS talking therapies are free in England and you can refer yourself without seeing a GP first. In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland your GP can refer you. Many therapists here also hold a small number of places at a lower rate, and they usually go to whoever asks. How to ask about a concession place.
Six questions to apply. A person checks your registration against your professional body’s public register, and nobody pays before they know they have been accepted.
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