Patrizia Vadala

I am a warm, easy to talk to, and empathic counsellor and supervisor who takes care to establish a warm and trusting relationship with my clients from day one. I believe everyone’s experience is unique and important, and will provide you with a safe space and a sense of being held and understood, so that you will become increasingly able to explore your difficult feelings and any possible burdens, and finally to make sense of any emotional suffering you are experiencing.

Totally committed to you, my clients, I strive for your growth and empowerment, and to bring about long-lasting improvements to your well-being.

As a Gestalt Counsellor I integrate into my work elements of Mindfulness and breathing techniques to find the ways of regulating anxiety which work best for you. In my practice I draw mainly on Attachment-based approaches and on the latest researches in the field of neuroscience, that means I am able to help you understand yourself from many different perspectives including looking at your patterns of attachment to important people in your past and present life, and what neuroscience and the field of interpersonal neurobiology is able to tell us about how our brains are wired for both survival and relationship.

I support clients in long-term open-ended practice and in short-term time-limited therapy, and have considerable experience helping clients dealing with depression, low mood, sense of loss, family or relationship problems, anxiety, sex, gender and sexuality issues, self-harm, concerns around work and career, self-esteem and self-worth issues.

Individual sessions:

up to 45 minutes, 85£/120£ (please ask, it really depends on methodology as Gestalt techniques are very powerful but very demanding on the therapist too)

Couple session: 120£/150£ 

free initial consultation: up to 15 min

First meeting/assessment: 60 min, 100£

Our initial meeting would be an assessment session to determine:

- what brings you to counselling

- once identified the real trigger for you seeking for support

- how it can best be approached and

- for us to decide whether we can work effectively together.

On line therapy (email, chat, skype) from 80£/120£ (up to 45 min)

Home visits: 160£ / 250£ (may vary according to distance) (up to 60 min)

Prior to home visits, we will have from 1 to 3 sessions at my private practice in SW London, unless differently agreed.

Group sessions: please contact me for details.

Individual Supervision (on line): 50£/1h

(promotional price until the end of the year)

I engage in on-going personal and professional development to ensure a high standard of therapeutic support.

I abide by the UKCP and BACP professional codes and am bound by the ethics of these organisations for good practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy.