This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About us
FreshStart Psychotherapy offers low-cost psychotherapy to anyone living in the Greater London area. We offer open-ended, 50 minute, weekly sessions with trainee psychotherapists who are sufficiently advanced in their training to be able to work in depth.
Sessions take place online or in 4 locations across London; Little Venice (W2) Marylebone (NW!), Hackney and Farringdon .
To contact FreshStart Psychotherapy to arrange an initial meeting, please contact us via our website www.freshstartpsychotherapy.co.uk
Training, qualifications & experience
Initial assessments are undertaken by fully qualified, experienced and UKCP registered psychotherapists.
Based on an individual's needs and availability, care is taken to carefully match and refer to a therapist who seems the most suitable for working with that particular client.
Member organisations *
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Areas of counselling we deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£20.00 - £70.00
Additional information
Unwaged clients and students pay £20 per session and clients earning up to £25,000 p/a pay £20 - £50 per session depending on what they can afford.
Clients earning above £25,000 p/a are referred to ex-FreshStart therapists who have completed or are close to completing their training. Those fees are between £50 - £70 per session.
When we work
Mondays to Fridays 8am - 10pm. Saturdays 9am to 5pm
Further information
FreshStart started off as a very small set-up in 1999, when three psychotherapy trainees at the CCPE, (Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education), Christa Scholtz, Kersti Traube and Jane Al Salem, later joined by Vera Mensinga as their supervisor, recognised that there was a need in the community for affordable short and long term counselling and psychotherapy, and for trainees such as themselves to have a placement.
In January 2009, FreshStart Psychotherapy was formed as a limited company and in September of that year, FSP was awarded charitable status. In 2016 the organisation became a C.I.C. Current directors are Christa Scholtz (UKCP Reg), Derek Williams, Annie Foley, Emily Henderson (UKCP Reg), Spencer Clifford, Richard Etok and Mark Joannides.
Our mission is to provide low fee psychotherapy to people who could otherwise not afford to access such a service, and to provide a voluntary placement of excellence for trainee psychotherapists. The service is open to anyone in the Greater London community who wishes to have the support provided by weekly psychotherapy.
If you would like to support our work, please contact Emily Henderson on emily@freshstartpsychotherapy.co.uk.
