David Housham

If you are thinking about approaching a counsellor, you can talk in confidence to me about how seeking that help could work for you - so you can decide if it's what you're looking for.

It may feel difficult - but it can begin with a simple step.

You can phone me, send a text or an email to arrange an initial meeting - at no cost - where you'll have time to talk about your life and its challenges, and to ask me about how I work with my clients. This meeting can take place via telephone or Zoom, or it can be an in-person meeting.

I usually work with adults (including LGBTQ+) and their mental health problems relating to depression and anxiety - including general anxiety and panic disorders - the stresses, losses, loneliness and disappointments that make life hard to bear.  I regularly work with issues related to family, relationships, work - with losses such as bereavement, divorce, addiction, health and retirement.

I offer short-term and open-ended types of therapy that are tailored to your needs as a unique individual: open-ended work that explores long-term issues relating to general depression and anxiety, or short-term work that is focused on a particular problem like an eating disorder, a phobia, concentration and so on.

In most cases I meet with my clients on a once-a-week basis - but this is flexible, depending on my clients' needs. My typical fee for counselling is £35 per weekly session.

Good, professional counselling should offer you safe, confidential breathing-space where you are not judged or made to feel like a freak or a time-waster.

It should be a place where a counsellor with experience, understanding and empathy can help you untangle and make sense of whatever combination of confusing, frightening thoughts and emotions is weighing you down, making you feel depressed, anxious, isolated.

If you feel like that, if you feel as though everything is falling apart – then counselling can help you understand how to put your life back together the way you want it to be.

Counselling involves making a commitment – both in terms of time and money – and in my practice I make an equally serious commitment to making your counselling as helpful as possible for as long as you want it to - to take you where you want to go in re-starting your life.

I work privately from my home in Hitchin, North Hertfordshire. I also work with clients in the Chesham/Amersham area of Buckinghamshire as a member of the Chiltern Counsellors Network, based in Chesham. 

Due to some continuing concerns about coronavirus infection in confined indoor spaces, I am still following BACP guidelines for face-to-face sessions.

My counselling fee is £35 per weekly session, including telephone and online sessions - or face-to-face sessions in my counselling room in Hitchin, north Hertfordshire