
Lana Choufani
Registered Member MBACP
Contact information
Features
- Concessionary rates
Availability
I currently have availability to see clients in-person on Tuesday afternoons between 1 and 4 pm in a therapy space in the borough of Hackney, just a few minutes walk from Dalston Kingsland and Dalston Junction overground stations.
I also offer therapy online on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays during daytime, afternoon, and evening hours depending on the day.
About me and my therapy practice
I am a Relational Integrative Counsellor, which means that I weave together various therapeutic modalities and I hold relationality at the heart of my work. My intention is to tailor the therapeutic experience to your specific needs, hopes, and concerns. I integrate humanistic, existential, psychodynamic, artistic, and body-focused approaches within my work, and feel that humour, play, and creativity can bring life and colour to the therapeutic experience. I believe that humans are instinctually motivated to move towards growth and inner balance, which we share universally with all living things.
You do not need to know with certainty what your reasons or hopes for coming to therapy are. You might just be wanting a space to talk about how you're feeling to someone without judgement, or make sense of what you’re experiencing with someone who will listen. Through rapport and trust, my main aim will be to provide you with a safe, warm, and empathetic space where you can bring yourself as you are and explore any issues you are struggling with. This may include anxieties, fears, or losses you've experienced, any beliefs, attitudes, or behaviours that you feel are not serving you, and past events and experiences that you feel have shaped you. I view the past, present and future holistically and value the importance of exploring how they contribute to each other in their own right. Ultimately, my intention is to facilitate your journey towards a deeper exploration and understanding of self through curiosity, authenticity, and open-mindedness.
The therapy I offer is culturally informed, inclusive, and accepting of the full diversity that is the human experience. As human beings we exist across multiple contexts and systems, so I feel it is important to acknowledge and explore the impact of these wider systems on our sense of being and belonging.
Practice description
I currently offer both long-term and short-term therapy. I generally offer short-term therapy over 12 to 16 sessions, and long-term therapy for 6 months to a year, however there is always scope to extend our therapeutic work together if need be. Depending on whether we will be working together on a short-term or long-term basis, we will loosely map out what you would like to explore in therapy and schedule a review half-way through our agreed working timeline so that we can ensure that the therapy is meeting your needs and explore what may come next.
My fee is £70 for a 50-minute session of therapy. I do however also offer concessionary rates based on circumstance. I ask that session fees be paid in advance on a weekly or monthly basis depending on what works best, and this will be reflected in the invoicing.
I offer a free 20-minute phone consultation to briefly discuss what you're looking for and to let you know a little bit more about how I work so we can decide if we will move forward. Once we have agreed to work together, we will set a date and time for our first session and I will send you a therapeutic contract and a client personal information sheet to read through and sign.
My first session
Our initial session will be an assessment session, where we will go through the therapeutic contract together and I will ask you questions around why you’ve come to counselling, what your hopes or goals for therapy are, and a bit about your background and context. Our therapeutic work beyond this will be more exploratory and open based on what you need. I invoice the initial assessment session separately to subsequent sessions, after which invoicing will be carried out based on our agreement (weekly or monthly).
What I can help with
Abuse, ADD / ADHD, Anger management, Anxiety, Autism spectrum, Bereavement, Child related issues, Cultural issues, Depression, Identity issues, Loss, Men's issues, Neurodiversity, Post-traumatic stress, Relationships, Self esteem, Sex-related issues, Sexual identity, Sexuality, Stress, Trauma, Women's issues, Work related issues
Types of therapy
Behavioural, Brief therapy, Cognitive, Creative therapy, Existential, Gestalt, Humanistic, Integrative, Interpersonal, Jungian, Person centred, Phenomenological, Play therapy, Psychoanalytic, Psychodynamic, Relational, Systemic, Transactional analysis, Transpersonal
Clients I work with
Adults, Older adults
How I deliver therapy
Long term sessions, Long-term face-to-face work, Online therapy, Short term sessions, Short-term face-to-face work, Time-limited