Name: Luke West
Telephone: +447482374899
Price range: £75.00 - £120.00

About me

You are probably here because something troubles you in how you relate to others, yourself or the world. And the world's response might get in the way of how you want to live and be.

Perhaps you don't understand your patterns or where they come from. Your emotions might be confusing - or you may have trouble expressing them. Perhaps your relationships tend to finish in the same way, or you avoid facing things.

These often present in surface behaviours, but what looks like a problem with alcohol or food, anger or anxiety is rarely just that. Underneath those are deeper parts of you. They shape how you approach people, opportunities and relationships; how you are at work, with your family, in love. And how you are within yourself.

In therapy, we look at what may need to change and what may need greater acceptance - part of the work may be learning the difference so you don't waste energy trying to change the unchangeable, and you attend to what you can change.

My role is to work alongside you with honesty, care and attention. Therapy is not always easy, and emotional risks are often part of the process. My clients tell me that it can be uncomfortable and that they can't hide from themselves - they also tend to say they're glad of both.

Often, one of the hardest parts is the initial contact. If you feel ready to take that first step, reach out and we can talk about what you are looking for and how I work.

Free Introductory Session

I offer a free 50-minute introductory session online, so you can speak about what brings you here, I can introduce myself and how I work, and you can get a feel for how we fit. So by the time of your first paid session, we will already have some sense of each other.

In the first session we will cover some of the same ground again, but in more depth and at your pace. There is no obligation to say more than you feel comfortable with, and when I ask questions there is no assumption that you should already have answers. Often, the questions themselves are important to sit with and reflect on over time.

I will often ask how you found the session at the end and you are welcome to answer honestly - whether it felt relieving, difficult, disappointing, encouraging or hard to say. And if you would rather not answer, that is fine too.

Training, qualifications & experience

I have an MA in existential psychotherapy, a post-graduate diploma in integrative psychotherapy and a diploma in cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy. I run my private practice and have extensive experience working with addiction as a therapist in a mental health and addiction in-patient treatment centre in London.