Your first session
Before, during and after
Step 1: Before
You get a written fee estimate and a link to the intake forms on the practice portal. You do not need to prepare anything else, and you do not need to agree on what to say.
Step 2: During
The session is 80 minutes. Louise listens to each of you, explains how she works and the limits of confidentiality, and asks what you would want from the time ahead.
Step 3: After
You decide together whether to continue. If you do, you choose the next time. If you do not, Louise will give you names of colleagues if you ask.
What Louise will ask
How long you have been together, and what the two of you would like to be different. She asks each of you in turn, and she asks the other to listen first.
She will not ask you to agree, to take a side or to say anything you are not ready to say. If either of you would rather not answer a question, say so.
What Louise will explain
How she works, the limits of confidentiality and the possible risks and benefits of couples therapy, in writing as well as aloud.
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