Yes, we take this10 to 16 sessions is the usual length
Including when it is only at weekends and nobody has said anything.
We do not require you to stop before you come, and we do not require you to call yourself anything. We work with what is in front of us, which is usually a person who is drinking to put something down.
If you are physically dependent, withdrawal can be dangerous and needs a doctor first. Dwayne will tell you on the fifteen-minute call whether that applies to you.
Who would hold it
Where two names are here, either can take it. The call decides on the wait and on who sounds right to you rather than on a rota.
Counsellor · 9 years
Counsellor. Drinking, anger and work. Holds the Thursday evening hour.
1 week
The rest of the list
Nights that start at two in the morning and a day spent paying for them.
First session looks atWhen it started, what your nights actually look like hour by hour, and the list of things you have quietly stopped doing.
8–14sessions is usual
The ones that feel like a heart attack, and the fear of the next one.
First session looks atWhere you were for the first one, what you did to survive it, and what you have been avoiding since.
6–10sessions is usual
Not a bad week. The kind where you have stopped expecting it to lift.
First session looks atHow long it has been, what has gone out of the week, and whether you are sleeping too much or not at all.
12–20sessions is usual
After a death, including the ones nobody around you counts as a big loss.
First session looks atWho died and when, what the last weeks were like, and what you have not been able to say out loud yet.
10–18sessions is usual
Together or on your own. We do not have a preferred ending.
First session looks atWhat each of you would call the problem, how long it has been that, and what has already been tried.
6–12sessions is usual
The eleven o'clock emails, the Sunday dread, the thing you have become at work.
First session looks atYour actual hours for one ordinary week, and what happens in your body on a Sunday evening.
6–10sessions is usual
Assault, an accident, or a childhood you have never described to anyone.
First session looks atNothing about the event itself. Sleep, startle, what sets it off now, and who knows.
16–30sessions is usual
We are not fast enough. This is who is, and we are still here tomorrow.
Instead888-NEW-LIFE on 888 639 5433, around the clock, or the emergency department at UHWI or KPH.
Not ours
We do not write reports for people who are not you.
InsteadA registered clinical psychologist doing independent assessment work. Ring us for two names.
Not ours
Not on our own. With a doctor already watching, yes.
InsteadA physician or dietitian first. With monitoring already in place, ring us back and we will take it.
Not ours
Our youngest client is sixteen. Below that we are not trained for it.
InsteadThe Child Guidance Clinic, through a doctor or a school, or one of two private child therapists we can name.
Not ours
None of us can prescribe. A psychiatrist can, and we work alongside them.
InsteadYour own doctor, or a psychiatrist. We will keep working with you alongside them.
Not ours