What we work with
Both lists are here because the second one saves you a phone call and a fortnight. Beside each thing we take is the number of sessions it usually runs to, what the first session actually looks at, and which of the six would hold it. Ranges are ranges: we review them with you at session six either way.
We take these
A session is JMD 9,500 at the full fee and 3,000 at the lowest, so multiply the range by your own band's figure and you have the whole cost before you ring.
Nights that start at two in the morning and a day spent paying for them.
The 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
Held by Rohan Beckford · Dwayne Sinclair
The ones that feel like a heart attack, and the fear of the next one.
The 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
Held by Rohan Beckford · Camille Duhaney
Not a bad week. The kind where you have stopped expecting it to lift.
The 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
Held by Neville Prendergast · Marlene Grantham
After a death, including the ones nobody around you counts as a big loss.
The 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
Held by Marlene Grantham · Neville Prendergast
Together or on your own. We do not have a preferred ending.
The 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
Held by Aisha Fenton · 75-minute sessions
Including when it is only at weekends and nobody has said anything.
The first session looks atA plain week: what you drank, when, and what was happening in the hour before.
10–16sessions is usual
Held by Dwayne Sinclair
The eleven o'clock emails, the Sunday dread, the thing you have become at work.
The first session looks atYour actual hours for one ordinary week, and what happens in your body on a Sunday evening.
6–10sessions is usual
Held by Dwayne Sinclair · Rohan Beckford
Assault, an accident, or a childhood you have never described to anyone.
The first session looks atNothing about the event itself. Sleep, startle, what sets it off now, and who knows.
16–30sessions is usual
Held by Camille Duhaney
We do not take these
Roughly one call in seven ends with us saying no. We try never to do it without a name to go with it, and if we cannot think of one on the call we ring back inside two days with one.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
"Something is off and I cannot name it" is a normal opening and we hear it several times a week. Working out what it is, and whether we are the right people for it, is most of what the 15-minute call is for.