Face to Face Session
Experience personal, one-on-one therapy in a calm, welcoming space—designed to support honest conversation, healing, and progress.
Location
The office is based off Athol Street in Douglas. The address is: Third Floor St James’s Chambers, 64a Athol Street IM1 1JE.
The door to the main entrance is actually on St George’s St where you can see 64 above the door.
Therapy Rooms
At the very top of the stairs are the office rooms. If you are early you can have a seat in the waiting room to the left.
There are two therapy rooms. The main one is shown on the left.
What to expect on your first session:
- Your therapist will come out to greet you in the waiting room and take you through.
- Typically you will be asked what has brought you to therapy and any previous therapeutic work you’ve had. From this will be a discussion on what’s worked and what hasn’t in the past.
- This initial session will help to build a collaborative understanding of what the difficulties are and if the therapist can help.
- Typically by the end of the first session you can have an idea of what the possible approach is and some insights to take away from the first meeting.
- You will be asked to think about the therapy plan and to give yourself time to consider this. It’s ok if you are not sure, have more questions or want to check out approaches from another therapist too.
Future sessions
Things to encourage:
- It’s ok to write down some ideas of what to work on.
- It’s a good idea to write down what you’ve taken from the previous session.
- It’s also fine to ask to talk about something different in the session that feels more important at that moment.
- You can also disagree with your therapist and sometimes be annoyed at them - this is all part of the therapeutic process.
Endings
Sometimes there is a natural ending due to completion of the thing you wanted to work on. The options then are to work towards this ending with the view you can come back in the future; to space out the frequency of appointments to fortnightly or monthly and see how you go. Some people also have a therapy break due to the timing and readiness – these are all OK. After therapy ends people can have some feelings of loss and sadness, and that’s very normal. It does not mean your depression is back and is a healthy part of processing and ending. This becomes easier and the things you’ve worked on continue to be part of you!
