Jack Rochon

Couples Therapy, Individual Psychotherapy & Psychosexual  Treatment.

I specialise in working through all aspects of relationship difficulties including sexual. These may be related to depression, anxiety or a feeling of alone-ness and could be driven by intimacy based issues or a breakdown in communication.

You can attend individually or as a couple. Individual counselling is offered on a weekly basis only. Couples Therapy on the other hand is either weekly or bi-weekly according to your personal preferences. Both can mix either on-line or face-to-face sessions. In all instances there is no commitments beyond the next session. Therapy is all about connection. First to help reconnect you to yourself and then to others. Relationships have never been harder. Expectations have reached a cultural high. And just how to stay creatively and intimately connected is proving elusive for a majority of us. Therapy provides a landscape for you to learn how to inhabit that creative, connected, intimate space. Here's the kicker; it requires work and commitment to the process of change. 

I work both on Zoom and face to face in Cardiff & Chepstow. As a highly trained & experienced relationship therapist my fees are £85 for individuals, £95 for couples & £110 for Psychosexual Treatment.

All my therapy is an invitation to commit to a more meaningful future; it aims to get you to a place, less constrained  by childhood difficulties, traumas, shame, particularly sexually informed shame or one-thousand-and-one other ways of feeling depressed, anxious or suicidal.

I am trained in a broad base of presentations ranging from explicit sexual problems to those of simple disconnection to betrayal. We all sit within the context of relationships past and present and are of course products of our own history. It is understanding how our early experiences constelate & inform us, that offers a way to a creative and more authentic way of living; a way of thinking and being connected. Perhaps even a way to recalibrate and reconfigure relationships and what they mean to you. Separating here and now experiences from dysfunctional history is where you and I sharing therapy stories will begin that process. 

For couples working through the complexity of maintaining intimacy or perhaps a loss of emotional connection, sexual betrayal or simply feeling distant from the other - all can be easier with professional input. Therapy aims at regaining a 'couple state mind' that comes so easily at the start of most relationships, the ability of putting the needs of the relationship first rather than the individual’s. Paradoxically for some, therapy can help in how to compassionately separate, without attrition or the use of aggressive lawyers.

In regard to complex matters of psychosexual intimacy, I am a member of the highly regarded College of Sexual & Relationship Therapists. I offer clinics in that specialist field of sex therapy in the NHS and in private practice both in Cardiff and Chepstow.

What to do?

Well, we remain powerful whatever our history, even if perhaps a little lost at times. 

So what could therapy do for you?

Perhaps therapy can provide you with the tools to make your life and your relationships take the shape that you wish them to. Perhaps it could empower you to leave the swamp of depression, in order to clear the space for a sweeter experience. A chance to finally settle unhelpful anxiety. Or to find in couples counselling the strength to leave a failing relationship or work through complex issues, such as betrayal, in order to rebuild again, trust and love. 

Therapy can help restore your resilience, robustness and self-belief: all this in order to facilitate the quality of relationship & loving connections that you may have lost and may be desperate to find again. Or perhaps you have simply longed to allow yourself to feel loved and to be able to safely offer love again; to allow love and lust to co-exist thrive in unison.

I have over twenty years of experience.

While many counsellors will ask you to see them in their homes, which can be uncomfortable to say the least, as a counsellor/psychotherapist I see clients in two discrete, exceptionally bright and comfortable practices - one right in the heart of Cardiff & the other between Usk and Chepstow.

An entirely 'open' contract means that you are in control of how long you wish to stay in therapy and can stop the counselling process at any time that you feel is best - without any prior notice.

Please drop me an email if you would like to ask me anything not covered here.

Best Jack

    I have worked extensively with clients who are suffering suicidal feelings, bouts of depression, and the consequences of all kinds of abuse; over 15 years of client sessions provides me with the experience to help you to achieve the goals & outcomes that you seek in your therapy. Relational & Existential Psychotherapy is an holistic therapy that aims to help clients connect again in a meaningful and intimate way with partners and important family and friends.

Individual Psychotherapy
Individuals: £85 for 50 minute session  
Couples Therapy
Couples:  £95 for 50 minute session                                                             Psychosexual:                                                                                                                    £110 for  50 minute session

£165 for 75 minute session

Longer sessions are available on request/by arrangement.

Supervision
£85 for 50minutes  
£100 - 90 minutes

Take the first step

I am aware from my own experiences of being a client, that taking that first step into counselling can be frightening.

Facing up to long time problems which may at some level feel impossible to deal often takes either a blind leap of faith or just plain desperation. So if you do make it through the door, please remember that any therapist in private practice works for you. As such I operate an open contract which means that you are not committed to having to come to therapy for any set length of time but rather are free to determine as and when you feel you would like to stop. In other words if at any point you feel it is not working just drop me an email or text to let me know you no longer wish to attend. My experience is the opposite but I think it's important for you to know that you are the one in the power.

And while I hope to bring a degree of experience and theoretical knowledge to the meeting, I am not an expert on your life - you are. It is that collaborative meeting of our different histories, however, that can be so useful and healing. No matter how great the problem feels for you now working side by side I aim to facilitate you to achieve the goals and changes that you need to create a greater sense of meaning in everyday life and key relationships.