Geraldine McManus

Geraldine McManus


Registered Member MBACP (Accredited)

Contact information

Phone number
077 488 38180

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Therapist - Woking

Woking GU22
07748838180
Sessions from £60.00

Features

  • Flexible hours available
  • Concessionary rates

Availability

I now see clients entirely remotely - via online video, phone etc. In addition some people do not feel they have the privacy or space to have a video/audio/telephone session and prefer to meet via  Email and online chat.

 If this is the case we arrange a regular day and use the session  time to read and write emails or chat messages.   

Clients are choosing to meet using FaceTime, Whatsapp, Skype  or telephone/audio/

About me and my therapy practice

My original training includes a degree in psychology (BSc, Honours) and Masters in Psychotherapy and Counselling (MSc) which means I can draw on a range of different theoretical and philosophical approaches including Psychodynamic, Existential, Phenomenological, Humanistic, and Postmodern.

In the course of my continuing professional development (CPD) I have taken training in Couples Counselling, CBT, Hypnotherapy, Clinical Supervision, Creativity and Play Therapy.

I have an Advanced DBS certificate and I am registered with a range of Insurance companies including BUPA, AxaPPP, Healthcare, Healthcare, Health Assured, etc

Practice description

For therapeutic reasons I aim to plan sessions three or four weeks in advance and plan to meet on the same day and time each week where possible, at least initially. 

I will send you a working agreement that summarises how I work, including confidentiality.

This allows us to develop a safe therapeutic relationship - one where you are able to feel safe and supported to explore your thoughts, feelings and situation. 

It is important for me to know how you find our work. So I will ask you from time to time what it is like to talk about things, what you would want more of or less of. 

This helps me get to understand you but also allows you to get to know yourself differently, and from there you can heal and potentially make changes.

My first session

I work with the standard fifty minute (50) 'therapeutic hour.'

The first session is just as important, if not more,  therapeutically, as any other session. It is a time for us to start to get to know where you are, what you are looking for, and how we work together. 

We will go through and confirm some contact information and how we are planning to continue. 

Unless we are working within a short term, time limited, brief therapy framework, which is normally limited to 6-8 sessions, I will not direct our work. 

I cannot know what has happened to you between sessions, and so it is not for me to prioritise what you want to talk about. 

However, I will ask questions, to check my understanding of what you are saying and to help you reflect and explore. 

What I can help with

Abuse, Anxiety, Autism spectrum, Bereavement, Business coaching, Career coaching, Child related issues, Chronic fatigue syndrome / ME, Coaching supervision, Cultural issues, Depression, Development coaching, Executive coaching, Health related issues, Identity issues, Infertility, Leadership coaching, Life coaching, Loss, Obsessions, OCD, Personal development, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Pregnancy related issues, Relationships, Self esteem, Self-harm, Sex-related issues, Sexual identity, Sexuality, Spirituality, Trauma, Women's issues

Types of therapy

Brief therapy, CBT, Cognitive, Creative therapy, Eclectic, Emotionally focused therapy, Existential, Gestalt, Humanistic, Integrative, Jungian, Person centred, Phenomenological, Play therapy, Primal therapy, Psychoanalytic, Psychodynamic, Relational, Solution focused brief therapy, Systemic, Transpersonal

Clients I work with

Adults, Children, Couples, EAP, Older adults, Trainees, Young people

How I deliver therapy

Long-term face-to-face work, Online therapy, Short-term face-to-face work, Telephone therapy, Time-limited