This week I am offering private clients, both new and existing, the opportunity to have sessions face to face. It will be quite a change, after three years of working using videochat, or occasionally just phone calls.

(What amused me about this is that for our work, the headings are the wrong way round – and I don’t have a dog)

I shall have to relearn how to make a decent cup of tea, for a start.

Before Covid restrictions, I had always offered online work as well as face to face, and that will continue. There will be occasions when clients will want an online session, e.g.

• because they are concerned they might be unwell
• because of the pressures of work
• because they have moved house some distance away, and want to continue working with me

and I am open to online or mixed working, of course, PROVIDED that I have some notice. A few hours is likely to be sufficient.

(Not, in fact, my room)

Why the notice? – My face to face sessions are in a room at my home, and occasionally I need to arrange visitors to the property so that confidentiality is maintained. Sometimes, believe it or not, I can be untidy, and things need to be put away before you arrive.

So, video or face-to-face? – the choice is yours.

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For contractual reasons I cannot always offer mixed working to my EAP clients – clients whose sessions are provided by their employer, or through an insurance company. The provider will normally specify the way they want the therapy delivered, and we have to respect that.