Tonia Aitken

Currently I meet clients face-to-face Wednesday mornings, 9am-1.30pm at the PAC therapy rooms in central Exeter. 

I do not have availability at the moment until possibly the second week of June. 

I plan to add Monday afternoons, 2pm-6.30pm face-to-face at PAC Exeter from September 2024. 

I have some availability online and some evenings and Saturday mornings in Totnes.

 I will be taking holiday time the last week of July and the first week of August.

My formal training is in Relational Transactional Analysis (TA) which is a widely recognised school of psychotherapy combining psychoanalytical, humanist and cognitive approaches. 

Though I work with people who have experienced a broad range of emotional and psychological difficulties and trauma, I have particular interest in supporting people struggling with sense of identity, relationship problems, (including domestic abuse); and those suffering loss and bereavement (including the loss of a loved one to suicide).

I passionately believe in the power of the therapeutic relationship to create personal growth and positive change in people’s lives. I have experienced this for myself in my own personal therapy, and am privileged to have witnessed it happening repeatedly and consistently in my work as a therapist with clients.

As well as my psychotherapy training and experience, I bring my natural intuition, curiosity and open-mindedness into the therapy room, focussing on helping you understand yourself and your relationships better. I offer a compassionate, non-judgemental, safe and totally confidential space for us to work together to explore what may be going on behind the difficult emotions, thoughts and behaviours troubling you.

PRICING

Sessions are £50 / £60 for couples

HOW LONG ARE SESSIONS / HOW OFTEN DO WE MEET?

Sessions are 50 minutes for an individual / 60 minutes for a couple and usually weekly

HOW MANY SESSIONS WILL I NEED?

I am happy to work long or short-term with you depending on your specific needs or circumstances. Following our initial conversations we will agree upon a plan of action together.

Following an exchange of emails, and a phone conversation (if requested), we will set up our first session which is a paid fifty minute introductory appointment.

This first session is for us to decide if we think it’s going to be a good fit between us; It’s critically important that you feel and think you’re going to be comfortable talking to me; and I also need to feel and think I’m going to be the right therapist for you. 

At the end of this first session I will ask you to take some time to reflect and then email me to let me know if you wish to proceed.