Gail Dean Counselling
IN PERSON COUNSELLING IN SALISBURY AND ACROSS THE UK ONLINE
Welcome to
Gail Dean Counselling
A confidential space to explore the thoughts, feelings and challenges in your life
In Person and Online Counselling from Salisbury
Hi, I’m Gail – a qualified, experienced Counsellor based in Salisbury, Wiltshire, working with adults, both women and men, aged 22 and over.
I offer face to face, online and telephone sessions.
I can help with issues such as adverse childhood experiences, trauma, abuse, depression, anxiety, bereavement, shame and neurodivergence as well as many others.
It’s really important for you to find the right therapist and to feel seen and understood. For this reason I offer a free 30-minute online session for you to see if we’re a good match.
No matter what feelings or circumstances have brought you to my website, I can offer you a calm and safe space in which I will encourage you to let go of the unhelpful ways of being that may be holding you back.
I am here to support you in feeling fulfilled and able to embrace who you really are.
I will listen, ask questions, and try to understand how your experiences impact your life. We will work together to address the issues born out of your experiences, you remain in control of what we do or don't talk about. I work in a trauma-informed way, which very simply means I have deep understanding of the impact of trauma on peoples lives and this knowledge and empathy is at the heart of how I work with people and how I understand the world, others and myself.
Are you struggling to be happy, dealing with feelings such as sadness, anxiety or low self-esteem?
Sometimes life gets on top of us and we can't work out how to move forward. Perhaps there are issues from your past that won't go away, which are interfering with your present life. You might feel stuck, stressed, depressed and not sure where to turn. We all go through difficult times, and it can sometimes be hard to make the first step to seek help. Maybe you’ve talked to friends or family, but they just don’t ‘get it’. Or perhaps there’s nobody you feel you can talk to about your concerns. Well, now might be the right time to take the first step and get in touch.
I offer a safe space to talk about things in more depth and help you understand them better. I will listen without judging and help you resolve your difficulties in ways that work for you. I will encourage you and help you explore ways forward at your pace, so you can start to feel happier and stronger.
My location
I offer face to face counselling sessions for adults from my practice based in Salisbury, Wiltshire. I can reach clients from Salisbury along with the surrounding areas of Tisbury, Amesbury, Wilton, and Southampton.
Along with in person sessions I also offer telephone and online counselling via Zoom, which allows me to reach clients across the UK.
Frequently Asked Questions
Please reach us at gail@spacetobeyou.net if you cannot find an answer to your question.
If working online, the first meeting lasts 30 minutes and is free of charge. This is a ‘getting to know you’ session for both of us so that I can get a clear idea of your needs and you can see if you feel I’m a good fit for you.
If you wish, you can continue and complete a full one-hour session (charged at £30.00). Or you can choose to go away and ‘sleep on it’ then contact me to make a full one-hour appointment. Or indeed you’re free to just let me know you don’t wish to continue.
After the first session, counselling is charged at £50.00/hour (60 minutes).
Therapy can be quite short – around 6-8 weeks – if there is a specific issue you wish to deal with. If you want to look at deeper or more longstanding issues, it’s likely to take longer. How many sessions you’d like to do is something we can review as we go along, and ultimately is always your decision.
In any case, after 6 sessions, we will review progress and discuss how we both feel it is going, whether one or both of us feels it has achieved its purpose by then or whether you would like to continue. We can then review our sessions as appropriate thereafter.
If you stay to the full hour in our first appointment, I will need you to pay the £30.00 by bank transfer before our session.
After that, each 60-minute session costs £50.00. We can agree how you will pay – either by cash or bank transfer at the session or within 24 hours of completing each session.
Life can be unpredictable, and you may need to cancel or change a session in advance. However, like most professional counsellors, I will need 24 hours’ notice of any changes. Quite often, I’ll be able to rearrange an appointment easily, but this cannot be guaranteed. If you cancel with less than 24 hours’ notice, you will be required to pay for the session.
I will hold your name, address and other contact details, plus date of birth. In our first session(s), I will also take a case history and reasons why you have come to see me. This information is kept securely and confidentially.
I will also keep brief notes on our sessions so as to remember what we’ve covered, what I would like to look at in our next session, etc.
Your personal and contact details will be kept separately from any notes I write about our sessions.
As a professional counsellor, I am bound to discuss my cases with a supervisor on a regular basis. This is in order that appropriate professional standards are maintained.
My supervisor does not live locally, and I will not share your full name with her.
Everything that happens within the therapy room is confidential. In most cases, I will not share anything with anybody else without your permission.
My code of ethics requires me to breach confidentiality only in exceptional cases of safeguarding, i.e. if (a) I believe you are at risk of harming yourself or (b) somebody else, or (c) if harm has been done to a child/children. These are obviously quite extreme and rare circumstances, but I am professionally required to tell you know this when we start counselling.
Your personal information will be kept in a safe place in my home under lock and key.
I don’t have a problem with that, but out of respect for your confidentiality (you may not want people to know how you know me), if I see you I will follow your lead. If you greet me, I’ll greet you back. If you don’t greet me, I’ll understand that you prefer not to acknowledge each other. In any case, I won’t enter into conversation with you. And if you prefer not to greet, I won’t take it personally.
You are welcome to ‘Like’/’Follow’ my ‘Space to Be You Counselling’ Facebook page if you wish to. However, according to my professional guidelines, please note that I don’t accept clients as Facebook ‘Friends’ on my personal Facebook page.
You may contact me by email, text or phone, to make/change appointments. I will only contact you as and when needed as part of the counselling. I can’t enter into correspondence between sessions.
Yes, I have the required Professional Liability Insurance for a counsellor.
Get in touch
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about how counselling works, or to arrange an initial assessment appointment. This enables us to discuss the reasons you are thinking of coming to counselling, whether it could be helpful for you and whether I am the right therapist to help.
You can also call me on 07961169830 if you would prefer to leave a message or speak to me first. I am happy to discuss any queries or questions you may have prior to arranging an initial appointment.
All enquires are usually answered within 24 hours, and all contact is strictly confidential and uses secure phone and email services.
Please note: www.spacetobeyou.net cannot offer an emergency service. In an emergency call 999. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis contact your GP or freephone your local NHS First Response 24-hour helpline. You can also get advice via the NHS 111 online service or by calling 111.
If you are distressed and need to talk, you can freephone Samaritans 24-hour service on 116 123. You can email jo@samaritans.org for a reply within 24 hours. If you’re under 19 you can text YM to 85258 for free or freephone Childline on 0800 1111.
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