WILTSHIRES NLP & COUNSELLING CABIN’S CONTRACT FOR Children & Young People.

The following is an agreement between the Myself the Therapist and the client (child/young person).

Tell me more about the appointments

• Please arrive on time for your appointments.

• If you can’t come to your appointment, please phone me or ask your parent/carer to phone as soon as you can. If your parent/carer is paying, then they will still have to pay if less than 48 hours notice is given unless I can rebook you into the same week.

• If you don’t attend 2 sessions in a row and don’t contact me to explain, then no further appointments will be given.

 Also, if lots of cancellations occur, then I may need to decide whether further appointments will be offered.

• You will normally have 6-9 sessions after the assessment session with each session lasting 50 minutes. Because this is NLP it gets results faster than normal counselling, and the hourly rate reflects this.

• All payments must be made by BACS 48hrs before a session.

• You will have to be collected by an agreed person unless your parent/carer has signed their contract to say you can leave on your own or has spoken to the therapist beforehand.

How does counselling/NLP work?

• I will use NLP therapy mainly but also some art or play therapy when necessary. I will explain what this means and how i will work with you.

If you or your child finds it hard to concentrate whilst sitting still we can do Walk & Talk Therapy instead for some of the session.

• I am trained to listen and work with Children, Young adults & Adults without judgement and with empathy.

• I will be using NLP techniques with yourself or child to help  with confidence and problems.

Who will know what I talk about?

• All therapy sessions are held in the strictest confidence at my counselling cabin. I will explain how this works with your parents/carers.

• However, there are times when what is discussed cannot stay confidential - this would be to prevent serious harm to yourself or others.

• I would also need to break confidentially if you spoke of involvement in serious crime, e.g. child abuse, terrorism or money laundering.

• All this said, it is up to you what you tell people about your own sessions.

. • I am fully insured, and I have a full and clear police check (DBS).

• I am here to help you but cannot be a friend before, during or after sessions, so cannot accept friend requests on social media

. • Please discuss with me how you would like me to respond if you were to see each other outside of the Cabin, e.g. in the street or in the supermarket etc.

• If you have any kind of problem about how your sessions are going, please try to talk to the me. If you feel you cannot, then please ask your parent/carer to speak with me.

• Record Keeping By entering into a therapeutic relationship with me, you are giving explicit consent to the making and keeping of records that contain personally sensitive information, in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)2018. The records are for my own personal use and will remain confidential, in line with our confidentiality agreement. Records are kept in a lockable filing cabinet and kept for a period of 10 years , as you may wish to return to therapy in the future. After this period, all records will be destroyed appropriately and securely. *Please Read the contract below*

Holidays & Illness

I will notify you of any holidays I may have coming up, in advance.

If I have to take any time due to illness on my part, I will notify you asap and wherever possible rebook you for later that week.

Kirsty Pollen NLP Therapist