Rebecca Franks

I am a UKCP accredited Integrative psychotherapist, counsellor and life coach working in the Dalston end of Stoke Newington, and I have been working with clients for over 15 years.

My integration is fundamentally formed from the Humanistic and Existential schools of thought, but I am also informed by, and use some Psychodynamic, Gestalt, Neuroscience and Neurobiology, CBT, CBTi and Mindfulness based ideas amongst others. The nature of this integration allows me to go way beyond a one-size-fits-all approach to therapy, and to work with a person as an individual with their own bespoke needs and requirements.

Some of the issues I work with:

• Abuse
• Addiction
• Anxiety
• Anger/ aggression
• Awareness
• Bereavement
• Depression
• Family issues
• gender identity
• Generalised anxiety disorder
• General feelings of 'stuckness' in life
• Insomnia
• Loss of meaning
• Low self-esteem
• Managing emotions
• Panic Attacks
• Trauma
• Racism
• Relationship problems
• Sadness
• Self-harm
• Sexuality
• Social anxiety
• Sleep problems
• Stress & change
• Suicidal feelings
• Well-being

We would work together in a collaborative relationship, with me providing the therapeutic skills, empathy, support and challenge necessary to create the safe environment for possible change, and we can work on either a short or long term basis.

I always think that therapy is a very strange endeavour indeed, after all, who would automatically think that sitting with a complete stranger and telling them their deepest, darkest secrets was going to be the most helpful and healthy option? But I truly believe that it is, and I have seen life changing results in both my clients and through my personal journey with therapy.

Even if you are lucky enough to have good family and friends around you, they are not trained to listen without judgement, they do not always hear what is being said, and generally they will have an idea of what they think you should do, which however well intentioned is not necessarily what is right for you.

Only you can truly know what is right for you, sometimes we just lose sight of that, or it may feel that that information has never really been within your reach, but through exploration of yourself in therapy it's possible to connect/reconnect with that lost information within yourself.

It can feel a daunting or even terrifying idea to consider having to get in touch with those lost or damaged parts of yourself, and it's natural for us to want to avoid that fear, but with the support of the right therapist it's possible to have that fear contained and held, and through this process for a safe space to be created for this difficult work to take place.

My fee is on a sliding scale from £85-100 depending on your income, we will discuss and agree a fee in our initial session. Therapy sessions are weekly and last for fifty minutes. Cancellations are charged at full price if a session is missed with less than 48 hours notice.

We can work on either a short (min 6 sessions), mid (12+ sessions) or open-ended basis (where we would work until we both felt the work was completed), we could mutually agree this at our initial session based on what we both consider your therapeutic needs to be. 

I also offer a life-coaching service for those wishing to work on a specific dilemma or issue within your professional or personal life.