Daisy Chain Counselling & Wellbeing Service
Face-to-Face sessions in Godmanchester Cambridgeshire
online/Telephone sessions available
Professional & bespoke Private Counselling Service
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, I can change."
Update: We have availability for new clients who would like to work with us. If you are interested in working with us, please review our pages to ensure we are aligned on opening times, availability, and fees. Please feel welcome to contact us via email at info@daisycounselling.co.uk or arrange a free introductory call. Thank you.
About Us
Welcome, and thank you for visiting.
Daisy Chain Counselling & Wellbeing Service is a confidential space situated in the heart of Godmanchester & Huntingdon. We provide one-to-one therapy every week as a minimum, often transitioning to bi-weekly sessions for people in the later phases of therapy. The frequency of visits promotes a safe, structured, predictable environment where trust can develop over time. This regularity provides the stability needed for people to gradually lower their psychological defences and engage more fully in the therapeutic process. As the therapeutic process unfolds, people are able to explore thoughts, feelings, and patterns of relating that may exist outside of their awareness and contribute to emotional distress or difficulties in daily life. Through this deeper understanding, previously unrecognised emotions can be experienced, understood and integrated in meaningful ways.
Our Mission
We believe that high-quality therapy facilitates change and extends beyond symptom relief. Meaningful and lasting change begins with greater self-awareness and emotional insight. Our aim is not only to relieve psychological distress but also to foster deeper personal growth. Through the therapeutic process, we support you in developing a greater capacity for emotional well-being, personal agency, and the ability to cultivate satisfying relationships.
How we work
Rather than focusing primarily on past events, we help our clients to integrate and bridge the gap between their past and present. Clients often present with problems dealing with their thoughts, feelings, and emotions and are often seeking help in learning to understand, manage, and express their feelings more effectively. We prioritise trauma-informed care by pacing our support to match the individual's comfort and readiness.
All of our therapists and student counsellors are members of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy BACP and commit to working within their ethical framework.
Making the decision to see a counsellor is a big step to take - but it can be a positive one. Please read on to find out more about how we could help you.
Short term therapy
Are you looking to overcome obstacles that are preventing you from moving forward and obtaining your goals?
A solution-focused approach can help you develop clear and concise goals that enable you to create a vision of the future and foster deliberate, meaningful change.
Longer-term therapy
We repeat what we don’t repair, but with time, we can untangle ourselves and break away from the unfulfilling patterns by doing the repair work. This can help us gain better insight and knowledge into the difficulty we are facing and allow us the freedom to make new choices.
What you seek is seeking you
We might have thoughts, attitudes, or beliefs that prevent us from finding what we seek. Working together can help you discover your life purpose and create meaningful ways of living by supporting you to discover what you are truly seeking.
Pre-consultation queries
Before arranging an initial consultation to see if we are a good fit together, please take a look at the information below. This covers many of the practical questions you may have about working with us.
When are sessions available?
Monday 9:30 - 3pm
Tuesday 9:30-3pm
Wednesday 9:30 - 3pm
Thursday 9:30-3pm
Friday 9:30-4pm
Saturday 9:00-12pm
*The times indicated are the earliest and latest start times.
How much do we charge?
£ 65:00 per 1-hour session.
The same fee applies whether the session is in-person or online/telephone.
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In-person sessions are currently held at Godmanchester Baptist Church in Godmanchester, PE29 2BJ. Please note that we work independently and have no affiliation with the church. In addition to in-person counselling, we also offer sessions online or via telephone call.
All of the premises are accessible. There is a lift to the first floor of the building where the majority of our sessions take place.
There is on-site parking just outside the main entrance. However, this can get very busy during certain times of the week, so we cannot guarantee there will always be a space available. There is on-road parking along East Chadley Lane and a designated car park on Post Street named Post Street car park, PE29 2QA, which is free of charge and less
than a 10 minute walk.
This is different for each person and there is no obligation to commit to a specific amount of sessions. We recommend that people have an assessment session to discuss some of the key issues that brought you to counselling. Sometimes, identifying these key issue(s) can happen during the first session; other times, they can take a little longer to identify. Assuming we are a good fit together, there is the opportunity to move into open-ended work, meaning there is no fixed number of sessions.
We believe in promoting client autonomy and we encourage people to trust themselves on when it is the right time to pause or conclude our work together.
Yes, you can. People come to us for short-term therapy for many reasons. This can be discussed further during the first session and often requires a different approach to longer-term therapy.
Our trainee counsellors have been carefully selected from reputable training providers and have often accrued a good amount of experience before they begin working with clients. In the first instance, all prospective clients have an initial session with a senior counsellor to assess their needs and the reason(s) they have come to counselling. This helps us to assess your individual needs and to determine whether a student counsellor will be suitable.
Yes we do, although we have limited session availability for this age group and we only work with teenagers from 15 upwards.
If you have a question that we haven't thought of, then please don't hesitate to get in touch to discuss it.
Services
Anxiety (including separation anxiety)
Depression
Guilt & Shame
Difficulties with managing or expressing emotions
Problems with Maintaining Relationships
Marital problems (not couples counselling)
Identity issues
Grieving & Loss
Attachment/developmental trauma
Neglect (the invisible wound)
Please note that some issues fall outside the scope of our practice, such as current issues with drug and alcohol addiction and current eating disorders. Typically, we refer people with these issues to trained specialists in those areas to ensure they get the best possible care.
Get in touch
Get in touch by emailing info@daisychaincounselling.co.uk to book an appointment.
You can also call us on 07821 245417 if you would prefer to leave a message or speak to me first. I am happy to discuss any queries or questions you may have before arranging an initial appointment.
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Frequently asked questions
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to therapy. Some people prefer bi-weekly sessions, while others commit to weekly sessions. However, we highly recommend and encourage people to have weekly sessions for several reasons, at least to begin with. Weekly sessions maintain consistency and momentum and allow people to stay focused on their therapy outcome and dive deeper into challenges. We believe it helps a person to build accountability for the changes they want to make because it's easy to slip back into repetitive patterns. Research consistently shows us that a strong, trusting relationship leads to better therapeutic outcomes, which can be hampered when sessions are infrequent or conducted on an ad hoc basis.
How long a period of counselling lasts will vary from person to person and depend on the depth of the issues you are facing. For some people, a short course of sessions helps to bring their problems into focus, and they feel ready to move forward and make necessary changes; other problems can be more complex and it takes time to understand the complexity of the situation.
We aim to offer a first appointment - known as an initial assessment - within 1-2 weeks.
The first session is about us getting to know each other which helps us to understand what you would like to gain from having therapy and whether we can help you. This is not always a straightforward process and it can take some time to formulate a plan and find the best way to move forward. At other times, this can be a relatively simple process when someone has a goal in mind and they know what they want to achieve.
We see therapy as a collaborative process where there is a mutual agreement about the purpose of the therapy and how we can work together to achieve that purpose. Once we have agreed to work together you will be offered further counselling sessions that will be set at the same time every week at a time that is convenient for you, and where we have availability. How quickly these sessions can begin will depend on the availability and spaces available.
Confidentiality is the byword of the counselling profession and what makes you, as the client, trust us enough to be open and honest. However, confidentiality is not the same as secrecy and there are legal limits to what can be kept confidential - please see below.
Note that there are certain situations where the law requires that we notify the authorities in cases involving trafficking, terrorism, safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. On the rare occasions when confidentiality needs to be broken, we will always do our best to involve you in the process.
Sometimes we get asked this question by people who are nervous about entering into counselling, or when they are looking for support in coming to see a therapist. This anxiety is understandable, but a key aspect of counselling is that you feel free to talk about any issues you feel are important to you. Having someone else with you can make opening up a little more difficult, so for this reason, we do not see clients accompanied by friends or family.
Location
We work from private offices located in Godmanchester Baptist Church, Huntingdon within easy reach of locations throughout Cambridgeshire
*Please note that we are not affiliated with Baptist Church
In addition to providing face-to-face therapy, We also offer telephone counselling and online sessions for clients throughout the UK. Contact us to find out more about how online therapy works.
Pricing & Cancellations
- Face-to-Face sessions £65
- Telephone/Online sessions £65
- Students £45
You may not know it, but you’ve already taken the first step...
It can be scary and confusing making the decision to contact a counsellor or therapist, but in my experience people will struggle with a mental health issue, a personal crisis or problems with a relationship for much longer than is healthy. Sometimes a friend has proved a source of comfort, but this help can only go so far. Realising that resolving a problem requires something more means you have actually already taken the first step towards improving your life.
What is Trauma & why it Matters
What is Trauma?
Typically, we think of trauma as the result of a big, catastrophic event that we have either witnessed or experienced at some point during our lives. However, any distressing experience, whether a single event or frequent exposure to a set of ongoing traumatic events, might result in trauma and push us outside of our ability to cope. We might compartmentalise these painful experiences and actively avoid places and people that remind us in some way of the original traumatic event(s). The effects of trauma reside within us and tend to stick around long after the events have passed, impacting how we think, feel, and behave, which is often outside of our awareness. It can show up in the form of anxiety, depression, and self-defeating patterns of behaviour.
What Contributes to Trauma?
Many things can contribute to trauma, but some of the common and often unseen reasons are due to adverse experiences with caregivers who were emotionally neglectful, apathetic, or emotionally unavailable. This is a form of relational trauma and can be more subtle, and doesn't get the attention that it deserves. People do not afford themselves the right to acknowledge this as a trauma, especially if our physical needs have been well supported. Other times, traumatic experiences are more overt and involve chaotic home lives coupled with inconsistent caregiving, which compromised our early attachment relationships and diminished our sense of safety.
If you are wondering if therapy is right for you, then you are not alone. Deciding to seek counselling is a personal decision that is often difficult to make. Life can be challenging, but having someone in your corner to provide a confidential space and offer a meaningful connection can help you to uncover repetitive patterns that no longer serve you. You can decide to put your well-being first by incorporating counselling into your life. Therapy is not a sign of weakness, but rather one of self-preservation that can lead to meaningful change.