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Self help does not work for everyone

British trained psychotherapy in Dubai

Reaching out is the hardest part

Tell us as much or as little as you like.

There are a hundred reasons people put off reaching out

  • Cost.
  • Time.
  • Not knowing if it’s “bad enough” yet.

You probably already know yours

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  • “It feels like a lot to spend on talking.”

    Cost
  • A man in a corduroy bucket hat, face screwed up in a wince.

  • “I keep thinking about who might see me walk in, and where that ends up.”

    Privacy
  • A man standing beside an armchair, reading an open book.

  • “I can’t find an hour that isn’t already spoken for by someone.”

    Time
  • A man standing full-length, absorbed in an open book.

  • “I’ve spent years being the one who copes. I don’t know how to be someone who suddenly can’t.”

    Judgement
  • A man sitting alone in a wooden armchair, reading.

  • “I’ll go if it gets worse.”

    Not yet
  • A close portrait of a man mid-grimace, looking at the camera.

  • “I picture sitting in a room with a stranger, waiting to feel something, and nothing coming.”

    Never tried
  • A tight portrait of a man's face, expression level and unreadable.

  • “Dubai’s small. Someone always knows someone.”

    Privacy
  • A man in a corduroy bucket hat, face screwed up in a wince.

  • “When I try to put it into words it comes out sounding so small that I can hear myself being ridiculous.”

    What to say
  • A man standing beside an armchair, reading an open book.

  • “They’ll think I’m making a fuss.”

    Judgement
  • A man standing full-length, absorbed in an open book.

  • “Everyone around me has their own things going on. I’d rather not add to the pile.”

    Coping alone
  • A man sitting alone in a wooden armchair, reading.

  • “I don’t know what actually happens once you’re in there.”

    Never tried
  • A close portrait of a man mid-grimace, looking at the camera.

  • “Every month I tell myself I’ll look into it when things are less tight, and every month something else comes up.”

    Cost
  • A tight portrait of a man's face, expression level and unreadable.

  • “I wouldn’t know where to start.”

    What to say
  • A man in a corduroy bucket hat, face screwed up in a wince.

  • “By the time the day’s done there’s nothing left in me, and that’s exactly the hour I’d have to use.”

    Time
  • A man standing beside an armchair, reading an open book.

  • “I’ve managed this long on my own.”

    Coping alone
  • A man standing full-length, absorbed in an open book.

  • “Plenty of people are carrying heavier things than this and still getting on with it.”

    Not yet
  • A man sitting alone in a wooden armchair, reading.

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Reaching out is the hardest part

Tell us as much or as little as you like.

Check In

Five questions about how things have been. No right answers, and nothing is saved.

Question 1 of 5

How have the last few weeks been?

How's your sleep been lately?

Is there someone you can talk to about it?

How are the everyday things going?

What made you look today?

Nothing's urgent — and that's fine

Sounds like things are broadly steady and you're having a look.

Plenty of people start here. You don't have to be struggling to find it useful to talk something through, and there's no threshold you have to cross first.

This isn't a test or a diagnosis — it's just a way of putting words to how things are.

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    Two or three lines about how this clinician works, and the people they most often see.

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    A short paragraph in this person’s own register — what a first session with them tends to be like.

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    Room here for the things people ask before booking: how this clinician works, who they see, and what they are like to sit with.

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Second Thoughts

Most people go back and forth before getting in touch. You're not the only one weighing these up.

  • It's a fair thing to weigh up, and a normal thing to ask about before you decide anything. Ask what's involved and what it costs. Asking a question isn't a commitment, and nothing has to be settled in the same conversation.

  • Most people picture something open-ended, and that's the part that's hard to find room for. It starts with one conversation. What happens after that is yours to decide, and it isn't something you have to commit to up front.

  • There's no threshold you have to cross first. Something can be worth talking about because it's been sitting with you a while, not because it reached a certain level — and waiting for it to is the harder way round.

  • It is, and that's a real reason people hesitate. How your information is handled is a fair question to put to us directly, before you book anything — and you're owed a straight answer to it, not a paragraph of small print.

  • You don't need it worked out in advance, and it's fine to turn up with the words still a bit of a mess. Nobody is expecting a tidy summary — working out what you actually want to say is often the thing itself.

  • You probably are handling it, and that's often the tiring part. Being able to manage on your own is a strange reason to keep having to, and talking something through isn't giving that up.