Therapy Waiting List Temporarily Closed
Due to an exceptionally high level of demand, we are having to close our therapy waiting list for a short period of time. We will announce on our website when we are able to take new referrals again. We apologise for any inconvenience.
If you are trying to contact us about an existing referral, please email [email protected]
If you are in crisis, then call 999 in an emergency, or 111 and select option 2 for a mental health assessment. If you need less urgent support, then we would encourage you to contact your GP in the first instance.
Therapy Waiting List Temporarily Closed
Due to an exceptionally high level of demand, we are having to close our therapy waiting list for a short period of time. We will announce on our website when we are able to take new referrals again. We apologise for any inconvenience.
If you are trying to contact us about an existing referral please email [email protected]
If you are in crisis, then call 999 in an emergency, or 111 and select option 2 for a mental health assessment. If you need less urgent support, then we would encourage you to contact your GP in the first instance.
Our Approach to Neuro-Inclusive Care
At Help for Psychology we want to provide a tailored and supportive service that does what you need.
Location
We offer face-to-face services at our Norfolk clinic, with certain services also available online.
Our Commitment
We are a team of friendly, genuine professionals who use evidence-based methods. We are proud to offer care that is explicitly neuro-inclusive, with specialist support designed to respect and affirm neurodivergent individuals.
Why Help for Psychology?
Our clinicians have extensive experience working with neurodivergent individuals, offering a supportive space where therapy is tailored to your individual needs. This process allows you to develop new coping strategies, enhance self-understanding, gain self-awareness, explore problem-solving approaches, foster meaningful insights, and allow for self-development. For example, therapy can be specifically adapted to help autistic people manage anxiety, develop social understanding, understand themselves and their neurotype more deeply, and navigate other common challenges of living in a neurotypical world.
Please note we are not a crisis service and are unable to provide immediate support or support outside of Mon-Fri, 9-5pm. If you or your child are experiencing a mental health crisis, please contact your GP or dial 111, press option 2.
Our Approach to Neuro-Inclusive Care
At Help for Psychology we want to provide a tailored and supportive service that does what you need.
Location
We offer face-to-face services at our Norfolk clinic, with certain services also available online.
Our Commitment
We are a team of friendly, genuine professionals who use evidence-based methods. We are proud to offer care that is explicitly neuro-inclusive, with specialist support designed to respect and affirm neurodivergent individuals.
Why Help for Psychology?
Our clinicians have extensive experience working with neurodivergent individuals, offering a supportive space where therapy is tailored to your individual needs. This process allows you to develop new coping strategies, enhance self-understanding, gain self-awareness, explore problem-solving approaches, foster meaningful insights, and allow for self-development. For example, therapy can be specifically adapted to help autistic people manage anxiety, develop social understanding, understand themselves and their neurotype more deeply, and navigate other common challenges of living in a neurotypical world.
Please note we are not a crisis service and are unable to provide immediate support or support outside of Mon-Fri, 9-5pm. If you or your child are experiencing a mental health crisis, please contact your GP or dial 111, press option 2.
Begin Your Journey
1 – Reach Out
Every path is unique, and you don’t have to figure out the next step alone. Contact us at [email protected] . We will send you an intake form to understand your needs and ensure we can safely support you or your child.
Please note: As part of our clinical safety, we require all clients to provide GP contact details and an emergency contact during this stage.
2 – Initial Consultation
A 50-60 minute session with a qualified psychologist to discuss your needs and confirm the best support pathway.
3 – Book Sessions
We offer support at two levels:
- Foundational Level: With an assistant or trainee psychologist, focusing on psychoeducation and coping skills. Starting here allows you to access expert-led support faster and at a more accessible price point.
- Comprehensive Level: With an HCPC-registered clinician, for more complex or targeted psychological interventions.
We use therapeutic approaches informed by various modalities. These include:
CBT focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and aims to help the person to identify, understand and challenge both unhelpful thoughts and behaviours in order to improve wellbeing and be able to thrive in everyday life.
EMDR is an effective, non-verbal therapy used primarily for PTSD and related anxiety. It uses guided bilateral stimulation (like side-to-side eye movements) to help the brain process and naturally heal from traumatic memories by changing the resulting emotions and thoughts.
Adults only.
Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) is a type of psychotherapy that helps individuals with shame and self-criticism develop self-compassion to improve their mental health. It uses an understanding of how emotions and the brain have evolved over time to help people manage their emotional regulation systems.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on a values-based approach, which acknowledges human suffering is a universal condition. It supports people to thrive despite suffering, by accepting what is out of our control and taking action to pursue personal values.
DBT is a structured, skills-based approach designed to help individuals understand and regulate intense and overwhelming emotions. This modality uses principles that combine acceptance and change to help clients gain control over deeply rooted emotional habits.
Our Therapy Prices
Clear, transparent pricing. No hidden fees. Payment plans are available for all packages.
Initial Consultation – 1 Hour
Psychologist Type
Total
Assistant Psychologist
£70
Trainee Clinical Psychologist
£80
Clinical Psychologist
£120
Initial Consultation – 1 Hour
Psychologist Type
Total
Assistant Psychologist
£70
Trainee Clinical Psychologist
£80
Clinical Psychologist
£120
Session Blocks – 6 Sessions
Psychologist Type
Price (per hour)
Total (Block of 6)
Assistant Psychologist
£70
£380 (Save 10%)
Trainee Clinical Psychologist
£80
£430 (Save 10%)
Clinical Psychologist
£120
£650 (Save 10%)
Session Blocks – 6 Sessions
Psychologist Type
Price
(per hour)
Total
(Block of 6)
Assistant Psychologist
£70
£380
(Save 10%)
Trainee Clinical Psychologist
£80
£430
(Save 10%)
Clinical Psychologist
£120
£650
(Save 10%)
Meet our Therapy Team
Therapy is provided by our experienced team members, including:
Assistant Psychologists
Our Assistant Psychologists offer support with mild to moderate challenges in areas such as low mood, anxiety, OCD, and understanding your identity and diagnosis. They are supervised by our Clinical Psychologists.
Trainee Clinical Psychologists
We often have Trainee Clinical Psychologists on placement within our service for six months at a time. Trainees are completing a doctorate level course and already have experience working within mental health services. They deliver therapy supervised by our Clinical Psychologists.
Clinical Psychologists
Our Clinical Psychologists are all HCPC registered and work with individuals with more complex therapy needs. We offer focused expertise using modality-informed approaches tailored to your needs.
Assistant Psychologists
Our Assistant Psychologists offer support with mild to moderate challenges in areas such as low mood, anxiety, OCD, and understanding your identity and diagnosis. They are supervised by our Clinical Psychologists.
Trainee Clinical Psychologists
We often have Trainee Clinical Psychologists on placement within our service for six months at a time. Trainees are completing a doctorate level course and already have experience working within mental health services. They deliver therapy supervised by our Clinical Psychologists.
Clinical Psychologists
Our Clinical Psychologists are all HCPC registered and work with individuals with more complex therapy needs. We offer focused expertise using modality-informed approaches tailored to your needs.
Clinical Psychologist
Dr Leila Allen
Clinical Psychologist
Dr Dite Felekki
Clinical Psychologist
Eleanor Carr
Assistant Psychologist
Tiggy Whitton
Higher Assistant Psychologist
Miriam Dutton
Higher Assistant Psychologist
Dr Dite Felekki
Clinical Psychologist
Dr Leila Allen
Clinical Psychologist
Dr Sarah Robertson
Clinical Psychologist
Eleanor Carr
Higher Assistant Psychologist
Tiggy Whitton
Higher Assistant Psychologist
Miriam Dutton
Higher Assistant Psychologist
Areas We Can Support With
- Anxiety
- Agoraphobia
- Attachment difficulties
- Depression or low mood
- Recognising and managing difficult emotions
- Understanding your identity and diagnosis
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Panic Disorder
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Social Anxiety
- Low self-esteem
- Specific Phobias
- Trauma
- Anxiety
- Agoraphobia
- Attachment difficulties
- Depression or low mood
- Recognising and managing difficult emotions
- Understanding your identity and diagnosis
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Panic Disorder
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Social Anxiety
- Low self-esteem
- Specific Phobias
- Trauma
Where Can You Provide Therapy?
We provide therapy in various formats, including face-to-face at our Norwich clinic or via video conference platforms such as Google Meet.
Please note that not all our clinicians offer Therapy in these formats, some of our clinicians may only be able to provide face-to-face Therapy at our Norwich clinic.
We are not currently offering Therapy at our Henley clinic, but we do have remote options if you need them.
Frequently Asked Questions
Unmasking isn’t an all-or-nothing leap; it’s a strategic, self-protective process. Therapy helps you identify where it is safe to drop the mask, how to communicate your needs to trusted loved ones, and how to maintain healthy boundaries in environments where masking is still required for survival.
A neurodiversity-informed therapist recognises meltdowns and shutdowns as distress responses to overload, not misbehaviour. They use those moments to practice co-regulation, lower environmental demands, and model safety—showing your child that their big feelings won’t result in rejection or punishment.
Alexithymia (difficulty identifying emotions) and interoception challenges (trouble sensing hunger, pain, or internal distress) are common. An affirming therapist won’t put you on the spot to label complex emotions; they will use body-based cues, visual charts, or external metaphors to help you connect with your internal state at your own pace.
Goals target emotional regulation, self-advocacy, reducing overwhelm, and recovering from burnout—not behavioural quietness. Progress is measured by your child’s felt sense of safety, self-worth, and ability to express boundaries, rather than how “compliant” they appear.
You are an active partner. Affirming paediatric therapists typically schedule separate parent check-ins to teach you home-based regulation tools, help you decipher sensory triggers, and coordinate support strategies without intruding on your child’s private therapeutic space.
Affirming therapists actively accommodate processing differences. You can request sensory-friendly adjustments (dimmed lights, permission to move or use fidgets), written agendas, visual aids, or alternative communication formats to make sessions accessible.
Ask direct questions: ‘How do you view neurodivergence in your practice?’ ‘How do you adapt sessions for sensory or communication needs?’, and ‘What is your perspective on masking?’ Pay attention to whether they use deficit-focused language (like ‘deficits’ or ‘suffering from’) or identity-affirming language.
An affirming provider will never try to eliminate harmless self-regulation tools like stimming or force neurotypical social behaviours. Instead, therapy serves as a safe environment to unmask, explore identity, and process the exhaustion that comes from suppressing your natural state.
Traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy often focuses on challenging ‘irrational thoughts.’ For neurodivergent people, distress often stems from real sensory overload, nervous system burnout, or executive dysfunction—not broken thinking patterns. Affirming therapy adapts or replaces these tools to address root systemic and physiological causes.
It is a framework that views neurotypes like ADHD, autism, or dyslexia as natural human variations rather than deficits to be cured. Goal-setting centres on self-acceptance, building accommodations, and navigating a world built for neurotypicals—never on forcing conformity.
No. Most neurodivergent-affirming therapists accept self-identification and peer diagnosis. They focus on supporting your lived experiences, sensory profile, and daily challenges rather than requiring clinical paperwork.
Our team of therapists deliver therapy using different modalities. In Norwich, our Help for Psychology team are able to offer face-to-face therapy at our Norfolk clinic. For clients in other areas of the UK, our therapists can provide therapy via video conference platforms such as Google Meet.
No. You do not need a GP referral in order to take up private therapy.
I would like to register my interest in receiving therapy for myself or my child. How do I start this process?
Please email your enquiry to [email protected]
Whilst a therapist may recommend a block of therapy following an Initial Consultation in order to work on the goals you identified in your consultation, you are under no obligation to proceed with it.
No. Unfortunately at this time we are only able to provide Therapy between the hours of 9:00 and 16:00.
This is reviewed on a client by client basis, but we are happy to liaise with our colleagues in Education.
We require a minimum of 2 working days notice of any changes to be agreed. Less than 2 working days notice will mean a cancellation charge of 50% of your booking fee paid.
Cancellation on the day of your booking would incur a 100% cancellation charge.
Should Help for Psychology need to cancel your appointment due to unforeseen reasons, then you will receive a 100% refund on the appointment we can’t provide, unless a suitable alternative booking date is supplied and agreed for your sessions.
We aim to respond to email enquiries within 5 working days, and an initial consultation as soon as an appropriate clinician is available.
It varies from person to person. Some people find six sessions helpful and others find they are still benefiting from Therapy after several months. We are happy to be flexible and work around each individual client.