How to get started

When should I seek help?

The time to seek professional help is when something insists.

When you are ready to address what’s going on for you, and when you realise there is an urgency you may not have recognised before.

For those new to the idea of psychotherapy it is a big step, but in reality it is just a case of making your mind up that the time is right, picking up the phone or writing the email.

Putting it off solves nothing.

Do it now

Not later – but now. Thinking: “I will do it when I am ready” is often how things remain untouched.

Your unconscious is working against your conscious, it is uncomfortable with having its secrets exposed, so the time to act is the moment you realise you need help. Putting it off is your unconscious controlling events. 

What does it cost?

The initial consultation costs £80. After that I work on a sliding scale and charge between £80 and £100 depending on your annual income. Session fees are agreed in your initial consultation. Fees are payable by online transfer or cash. 

A session usually lasts up to 45 minutes, depending on the work. A session may be shorter when ending at a particular moment is part of the work, rather than a matter of timekeeping.

Counselling * Psychotherapy * Psychoanalysis

What makes us tick, what makes us love or hate, and what drives us to live our lives in the way we do, but not always want to?

When it feels like something went wrong, it is important to find out, when, or why, or with whom it did.

Counselling, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis – they all create in their different ways a confidential space to address questions about your passions and desires, and about your dreams and nightmares, in order to explore how you got where you are now.

And if you suspect that what troubles you has, deep down, something to do with you and who you are or who you want to be, or whom you want to be with, or with what you don’t know about yourself when you have come to a crossroad in your life, then this is a crucial first step into a new direction. From here the work can begin.

About

Hello,

I am a Chartered Counselling Psychologist with over 20 years of clinical experience, specialising in Psychoanalysis, Psychological Counselling, and Existential Psychotherapy. I have worked in both one-to-one and group settings, and have encountered a diverse range of individuals with their many ways of understanding themselves, their relationships and the world they find themselves in.

I have worked in private practice since 2010, initially alongside roles in clinical organisations in London, including at the London Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (LACAP) in East London, where I later worked as Senior Associate Therapist. Since 2012, my work has been focused on private practice.

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Contact

Coppergate House

Lenta Business Center

10 White Row

E1 7NF

London

Phone : (0) 772 4747056

Email : mail [at] dorotheaschueler.com