Andrew Norman

I meet with clients in my own counselling room in Sidmouth which is comfortable, quiet, easy to find and has plenty of parking space. 

If it is easier I am able to make home visits.

I also work with clients online with Zoom. That might make it possible for you to fit counselling sessions into the time you have available, and without having to travel wherever you are in the UK. 

I see clients on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and from early morning until early evening.

I am also able to offer counselling in the form of a quiet hour’s walk along a local path by the river.

I believe in making counselling as accessible as possible. So while my standard rate is £50 per session, lower rates are easily available as needed, and £30 per session offered to students and trainee counsellors. 

As a qualified therapist I aim to meet clients at their point of need, and through offering good listening and empathic questioning to support finding the best personal ways forward. I trust in the potential we each have to understand ourselves better, to change and to grow.

Personal confusion and anxiety, anger, relationships and families, problems with work and retirement, issues with self confidence, esteem and identity, spirituality in the broadest sense, loneliness, loss, upheaval and bereavement are all areas I find therapy helps with. 

My therapeutic method is Person Centred based and integrative in that I am continually learning from the wide range of therapeutic practices.

• with clients I try to avoid therapy jargon - while being committed to actively maintain my own professional development. 

See my website for more details of my therapeutic method.

Client testimonial from E VR, February 2021:

“Andrew was a skilled, intelligent and very kind counsellor to me at a low point in my life. I consider myself very fortunate as I often found him leading me skilfully and professionally to find my own solutions and answers to my concerns and questions usually much to my surprise. This ability to guide me and yet show me that I was not always correct and as clear in my thinking and perceptions as I thought I was, always with a gentle smile, means that I trust Andrew absolutely. I always felt safe with him, from the first appointment."

"Andrew has excellent time management skills and I never felt rushed. The last session with him was positive and affirming with many good memories. He guided me to feel empowered again and to value myself.”

What will it be like?

I remember feeling quite nervous when I went to my own first  session of counselling as a new client. So I was grateful that my therapist welcomed me warmly, explained things clearly, and put me at my ease. I now try to do the same myself.

Our first session will be to identify what has prompted you to consider counselling, to see what you want the therapy to help with - and the right place for you to start.

We can discuss together and agree key matters such as confidentiality. These will include all the practicalities which will ensure that our sessions remain a safe space for you in line with the BACP Ethical Framework and the law relating to the protection of your data.

If you then decide that you would like to continue working with me we would agree on a helpful schedule. 

Talking to someone who really listens well is so simple but can be so helpful. It's how we are as human beings. We need to see ourselves holistically and through some of the veils that come to be there for each of us.

Contact me for a free 45 minute introductory session to explore how therapy can help you.