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 at the grade II listed CCPE building in Little Venice, W2 which overlooks the beautiful Grand Union canal. The building has a ground floor WC and wheelchair access. It is easily accessed by public transport, being served by a variety of bus services and Warwick Avenue underground and Paddington station within short walking distance.
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
£15.00 - £70.00
Additional information
Unwaged clients and students pay £15 per session and clients earning up to £25,000 p/a pay £15 - £40 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
Mon - to Saturday 9 to 12 and then 8pm and 9pm or Fridays 9 - 9 and Saturday 9 to 8
Further information
FreshStart, in its original incarnation, 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. Current trustees are Spencer Clifford, Annie Foley, Amanda Hon (UKCP Reg.), Rachela Leonello, Christa Scholtz (UKCP Reg.), and Derek Williams (UKCP Reg.).
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 make cheques payable to FreshStart Psychotherapy and post to: FreshStart Psychotherapy, CCPE Building, Beauchamp Lodge, 2 Warwick Crescent, London, W2 6NE. If you are a UK tax payer, please let us know if you wish FreshStart Psychotherapy to claim Gift Aid against your donation. Gift Aid forms can be e-mailed to you at your request.
