Selina Pryor

If your everyday life and general wellbeing are being affected by how you’re feeling, it is a good time to get some help.

My name is Selina Pryor and I work in private practice and as a school counsellor with young people and adults.  Coming to counselling can offer the space and time needed to work through challenging experiences and issues, it is an opportunity to be heard and to feel understood.  It can help in building better self-awareness, relationships and overall quality of life.

Choosing a counsellor that feels like the right person is really important.  I would encourage you to make a number of enquiries before deciding who best, you feel, can meet your needs.  If you would like to see if I am that person, contact me.  We can have a chat about your requirements, and then decide if we feel it would be suitable to do a full fifty minute assessment session which would enable us time to talk in greater depth and decide if we feel we can work together.

If you are a parent or carer looking for a counsellor for a young person, I believe it is just as important that you are happy for us all to work together collaboratively.  Dependant on the age of the young person, I would generally talk to the parent / carer on the phone first and then decide if we move straight on to an assessment session or I can talk to the young person on the phone first and then we can decide.  Taking time in the beginning to do all this is a key part in helping our relationship work.

I offer face to face or online session.  I am based in Canterbury.  I am able to be flexible in my assessment scheduling and then if you choose to continue we can work out a mutually agreeable time to have sessions.

I prefer to offer an initial six sessions, with a review in the fifth, in order to make a joint decision on where to go from there.  I am happy to work short or long term dependant on client need.

I believe that the counsellor client relationship is the most important element in helping someone feel comfortable to talk about any issues or problems they may be experiencing.  Our working relationship could help you to make sense of experiences, behaviours, feelings and emotions.  It could help you to gain a better understanding of yourself; make shifts and changes where you want in your life, and to move forward.