Vashti Hodge

I work Monday - Friday 10-6pm. (6pm is the last session)

Life can sometimes throw us curve balls when we least expect them; a bereavement, a job loss, stress, anxiety, losing a pet, ill health to name a few. When this happens it can sometimes have an overwhelming impact on how we are living our lives. Talking to friends/family never quite seems to help us as they often suggest solutions or never really seem to "hear" what we are saying. 

This is a time when counselling could perhaps be of benefit. 

I offer a safe, warm, peaceful space, in my home, where you can come to explore the curve ball you've been thrown. Often that one incident has triggered memories and emotions that have been hidden away in us or we thought we had dealt with and they may have re surfaced or we just might not be able to work out why we "don't feel quite right".

The counselling style I use is Integrative, which means your therapy will be tailored to your needs. I am also a heart embodied healer believing our hearts carry more memories than our minds and I incorparate heart work into the therapy if needed. This can be through meditaion, visualisations and deep inner child work. Counselling is a collaborative, encouraging, warm and hopeful process. You may want time limited work or you may want the freedom to explore much of your life and work open ended. The work is about you and what your needs are.

I am an accredited therapist with over 25 years experience. I work with individuals and couples. There are not many issues that I have not worked with. Including: Loss, separation and divorce, relationship, psychosexual issues, work related stress, bereavement, adjusting to life with children, loss of a beloved pet, abuse, illness, sexual abuse in adulthood and childhood, poverty, to name a few.

Counselling takes courage, you have it, as you are here looking for a therapist. Well done. You are on the way to taking control of your feelings and moving forward with your life.

Please feel free to contact me, with no obligation, with any questions you might have.

I offer online, phone and face to face sessions. 

The first session is finding out what brought you to therapy and what you hope to get from coming. It's also a chance for me to make sure I am able to help and for you to see if I am the right therapist for you. (This session is charged at my normal hourly rate).

Couple work is a higher rate and sessions are 60 minutes long.