Therapeutic Approach
Please read this page to understand what you might expect from a therapeutic session at KO Psychology.
"Courage is not the absence of despair, it is rather the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair”
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- Rollo May
Combining clinical knowledge and counselling skills, therapy at KO Psychology offers a comprehensive and nuanced approach to mental health. It aims to clear the way for an empowered life by helping you address mental and emotional challenges, questions of existence, and specific psychological issues. Depending on your needs, clinical assessments and evidence based treatments are integrated with therapeutic exploration and relational depth. Looking at the dynamic and relational context, therapy can focus on the present and undertake solution-focused objectives by developing skills, or seek to understand one's life backwards to live forward by processing past events. Therapy at KO Psychology emphasises on your sense of agency, self-worth, meaning making and authenticity.
Therapeutic Process
Assessment
The first session is an opportunity to get to know one another and explore the issue that brings you to therapy, your needs, goals and expectations. If we agree to continue working together, an initial agreement about the frequency and duration of our sessions will be established.
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Duration and Frequency of Therapy
Based on your assessment session, therapy can either be short-term (6-12 sessions) or long-term. Generally, short-term therapy is recommended if you would like to work on a specific issue, whereas long-term therapy is more suitable if you would like to work on multiple or more complex and severe issues. Weekly therapy is recommended for those who want to engage in a deep therapeutic and transformative process, whilst biweekly sessions are more supportive in nature and designed to assist you in your journey.
"Man is not free from his conditions, but he is free to take a stand towards his conditions”
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- Viktor Frankl
Confidentiality and Insurance
Therapy sessions are strictly confidential. In exceptional circumstances when someone's life might be in danger, whether your own or that of someone else, KO Psychology has the legal and ethical requirement to breach confidentiality. These boundaries will clearly be outlined in therapy to ensure full transparency and collaboration with you. For more information, please see the BACP's Ethical Framework and BPS's chapter on confidentiality.
KO Psychology has personal indemnity insurance.