WHAT TO EXPECT

Session length:

Each session will be 1 hr for an individual and up to 1.5 hrs for a couple.

Fees:

For a first individual session I charge $60 and for a first couples session I charge $100. Ongoing sessions

for individuals costs $100 and for couples costs $150 per session

Cancelling a session:

To cancel or reschedule your appointment I require a 48 hour cancellation window so I can book someone else into this slot. If you haven't provided the 48 hour window, you will be charged 50% of the session cost.

Appointment Times:

Mondays I have 5 available time slots as follows. please contact me to find out my availability - (9:30am, 10:45am, 1pm, 2:15pm, 3:30pm).

Confidentiality:

Confidentiality is an important part of counselling. You need to feel safe and comfortable to share your private issues and concerns. At Jesse Nelson Counselling, you will experience a welcoming and safe environment.

As a member of a professional counselling body, I adhere to a strict code of ethics where confidentiality, respect, and care are assured.

The exception to this confidentiality is where there may be a threat to the safety of others or oneself.

If I have any concerns regarding this, I will discuss it with you and then with your consent make a plan on who we can call on to get the help you need.

Relationship and Couples Counselling

Relationship and couples counselling is a form of counselling designed to build stronger and more resilient relationships and connections with loved ones. It's a chance to have a look at what is happening that has created the fractures that force distance between us. Counselling provides a safe space to discuss these potential fractures and difficulties within your relationship's and hopefully create a way that you can re-build and find solutions, that create a closeness again. Relationships are difficult at the best of times, because of many reasons e.g., environment, history stories, upbringing, world view, work commitments, stress, worry, communication breakdown, emotions, health issues both mental and physical etc. let's look at the reasons why you feel this distance and find ways that bring you together in your relationship and use tools like reflection, that help us to process these difficulties and find ways forward.

Non-Violence Education

I call this education, because it can be a little more structured like a program, depending on your needs. It has plenty of opportunity to discuss personal behaviours like anger and violence and build an understanding of what these are and the balance of when they are appropriate and inappropriate, behaviours. To do some of this work, I like to use a whiteboard if possible, so the learning is visual. Depending again on what your needs are, we could look at things like goals and what you might want to achieve, different forms of violence and the impacts of these, your cycle, which includes things like triggers, behaviours, victim impact, remorse and lastly, calm and cool down ideas. Te Whare Tapa Wha model to see what supports you have, the anger iceberg and what lies beneath, what is empathy really, safety plan to reduce risk, moving forward and how to navigate the next steps. This could include video resources as part of it.

Trauma and Mental Health Counselling

A little more generic by nature and with plenty of cross over with relationship and non-violence work, but not to be undervalued in it's own right. While all counselling has an element of individual work, this most certainly has a focus on you and your story and finding steps together, to support what it is you want in your life and finding who you are, in all of this. This at times will reach back into your past, to understand trauma experiences and to help us to understand what your needs are and to find ways to navigate the paths of life's journey, to a place where you can experience living life, as apposed to surviving it. This is a safe place to peek behind the closed doors in your life, that you may not have ever let anyone else see behind before.