Office: Upper Chapel, Brecon. LD3 9RG Tel: 07301 202091
Effective Therapy for Enduring Change
Serving Brecon and surrounding areas and UK-wide online
Bernadette Bustin CPsychol; AFBPsS
Chartered Psychologist
Counselling Psychologist
Sessions and Fees
On-Line Video Session via Zoom
On-line video sessions are conducted through Zoom and area available based on UK times.
This platform enables high quality video calls with a range of features that mean I can share visual material with clients during our sessions.
These sessions are 50 - 60 minutes duration and charged at £85 per session.
Evening and weekend sessions are sometimes available - please contact me for more information.
In-Person Sessions
These sessions are 50 - 60 minutes duration and charged at £85 per session.
They take place in my therapy office located between Brecon and Builth Wells. Please contact me for details about location and accessibility.
Walking Therapy
A number of people find the anticipation of working with a therapist to be a daunting prospect. Particularly at the start of the therapeutic relationship, for some people, a 1 hour session is too short to develop trust in their therapist and still have time to move onto therapeutic work. However, longer than this, especially on-line, can feel too tiring and intense. Therefore, I also offer extended sessions of 'walking therapy'.
These are sessions of 1.5 - 3 hours duration that take place in the beautiful and peaceful Mid-Wales countryside. These take place around the riverside towns of Brecon and Builth Wells and in the surrounding area. I use gentle paced, mindful walking, interspersed with periods of sitting and resting to allow spacious and easy attention to the client's difficulties .
This extended time-period allows trust to develop; the physical activity of walking has a grounding effect and the natural environment is both soothing to the nervous system while enabling the organic development of a companiable relationship between client and therapist.
Please contact me if you are interested in discussing fees and arrangements for walking therapy. All walks are tailored to a person's level of mobility and fitness and weather conditions are always taken into account.
How Many Sessions will I need?
It is impossible to predict how many sessions a person will need before they feel significant benefit.
Everyone's history and present-day circumstances are different. However, increasingly the research is leading us to recognise that addiction is best thought of as a chronic, long-term, condition. Therefore, it might be helpful to anticipate coming for repeated blocks of sessions over a longer period as needed.
Some people find that a few sessions give them enough insight and skills to go forward on their own for a period of time. Others like to attend for just a few sessions at a time but return for further input at times over many years. Others choose to start with a period of weekly sessions and then gradually reduce the frequency.