About me
Do you feel disconnected from your partner, anxious about intimacy, or stuck in cycles of stress that leave you feeling exhausted?
When sexual difficulties, anxiety, or relationship strains take over, it is easy to feel isolated. I work with individuals and couples to break through these barriers, resolve intimacy issues, ease depression, and help you build a deeply satisfying life and relationship.
Specialist Support Tailored to You
I offer both focused, short-term counselling and open-ended, long-term psychotherapy. Because challenges around intimacy are highly personal, my approach is compassionate, non-judgmental, and tailored entirely to your pace.
Psychosexual & Relationship Therapy: Overcoming erectile changes, painful intercourse, mismatched libido, or a complete loss of intimacy.
Emotional Well-being: Finding relief from chronic anxiety, low mood, burnout, and a loss of personal meaning.
Please note: Psychosexual therapy is strictly conversational. Our sessions focus entirely on psychological, emotional, and relational factors; there is never any touch or physical examination involved.
My Practice Locations
Basingstoke (In-Person): Based in a quiet, confidential professional practice in Daneshill. The clinic has free parking and is easily accessible from Basingstoke town centre and the M3.
London & Online: I also treat complex psychosexual cases for the NHS both face-to-face in London and via secure online video sessions nationwide.
What Happens First?
Taking the first step can feel daunting, which is why we always begin with a free initial telephone consultation. This gives us 15 minutes to speak with absolutely no pressure, helping you decide if I am the right fit for you.
In our first full consultation, we will map out what brings you to therapy and decide together whether a short-term focus or deeper, long-term work fits your goals.
Get in Touch
Ready to take control of your well-being? Contact me today to schedule your free phone consultation: Email: [irene.searle@btinternet.com]
Call / Text: 07949176337 to arrange your free phone consultation.
Training & Professional Credentials
Registered Member BACP: Psychodynamic Diploma in Counselling (Accredited Training Course)
Advanced Specialist Training: Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosexual Therapy (COSRT-approved, Tavistock Clinic London)
Training, qualifications & experience
*Current - Diploma in Psychosexual Therapy COSRT approved Tavistock Clinic London
*Psychodynamic Diploma in Counselling (BACP Accredited Training Course 187620/10317)
(*Psychodynamic counselling embraces the work of psychoanalysis. Its roots lie predominantly in Freud's psychoanalysis approach. The aim being to bring the unconscious mind into consciousness - helping clients unravel, experience and understand their true, deep-rooted feelings in order to resolve them.
Whilst it shares the same principles of psychoanalysis, psychodynamic counselling is far less intensive. It helps people to make significant changes in how they make decisions and interact with others.)
- Certificate in Working with couples - Psychodynamic
- Certificate in Counselling Skills
- BSc (Psychology)
I am fully supervised and attend regular CPD events to keep me abreast of developments occurring in my profession.
I am registered with BACP and work with those aged 18+ and couples. The issues I have worked with are anxiety, bereavement, depression, eating disorders, self-harm, panic/anxiety attacks, stress, exam anxiety, relationship problems, problems at work, divorce, parenting struggles, loneliness/losing one's way in life and family trauma.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Pressures to fulfil expectations whether societal, family, peers or our own
- Family conflict
- Trauma particularly linked with early childhood
- Issues with our sense of identity in the world
- Exam anxiety and the pressure to succeed
Therapies offered
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Fees
£35.00 - £90.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
You can call me on 07949176337 or email and we can discuss your needs over the phone. Sessions are conducted at my private, comfortable therapy room in Basingstoke. Contact me for availability.
General and Psychosexual therapy - individuals
- Initial assessment (50 minutes) - £35
- Further weekly sessions (50 minutes) - £70
Couples therapy
Romantic or family couples e.g siblings/friends/mother-daughter etc
- Initial assessment (60 mins) - £45
- Ongoing sessions (60 mins) - £90
Concessions and Insurance information
- Concessionary spaces subject to availability
- Concessions/low income short term spaces available please let me know
- Recognised with Healthcode - Vitality, WPA and Allianz Insurance
If you inform me a week in advance you have to miss a session, there is no charge. Cancellations made with less than three days notice are charged at 50%. Less than 24 hours, the full fee is charged. Therapy is usually open-ended arranged every week at the same time but I understand this does not suit everyone. I also offer short term sessions of 4/6 or can work on an ad-hoc basis depending on what you want.
When I work
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Further information
I am a registered member of the BACP (British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy), accountable to and follow their ethical code of practice. More information can be obtained from www.bacp.co.uk
In following good practice, I am in regular clinical supervision, attend regular training events and have an up to date DBS certificate (formerly CRB). I am also fully insured.
If you call me you may get my answer service but please leave me a message and I will aim to get back to you within 24 hours. Your first appointment (an initial consultation) will be confirmed by email.
The initial appointment is a chance for you to talk through your difficulties, explore your needs and the kind of support you may require and whether counselling is the best way forward. At times there may be a need to refer on to other services for example, people dependent on drugs or alcohol may require specialist support.
Confidentiality: counselling is private and confidential. No information will be disclosed to anyone without the client's permission except under rare legal circumstances. You are free to talk without fear of rejection, criticism or blame.
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