Welcome, and thank you for visiting my website. My name is Annie Huntington and I am a psychotherapist providing both therapy and supervision through online sessions.
Looking for someone to listen? For someone you feel you can trust. Someone who won’t judge as you explore your feelings, thoughts and behaviours?
Finding a therapist who is right for you is important. I have worked with a wide range of people who have brought a variety of issues and problems to therapy. Being alongside people and supporting them to find their own answers, not giving advice, is central to my practice. I hope that I can support you to pause, breathe, feel and think as you consider issues (present and/or past) that are important to you.
Central to the way I work as a therapist is my belief in you and your capacity to work out, with support, what your therapy goals might be and, importantly, how much of your time, energy, and resources you want to commit to therapy. It is a choice and one which I hope we can think about together. We might focus on your life story, relationships, priorities, feelings, behaviours, thoughts, strengths and struggles, what you want to, and can, change and what you don’t want to and/or can’t change. It is your choice and your life after all.
More specifically, I qualified as a psychotherapist in 1999 and am registered with the UKCP. I use a range of approaches (e.g. talking, creative action methods) that we agree on and work for you. The goal - supporting you to, in your own way, “live well now".
I hope you have the information you need to decide whether to contact me about therapy options. If you do decide to get in touch, I will work with you to build a relationship that allows you to bring the issues that are important to you. Reaching out and finding a way forward may not be easy and I hope it will be worthwhile for you.
Your session time is your space and I encourage you to prepare for it in a way that feels right for you. You may also want to allow time afterwards to process and reflect on whatever you explored in your session.
You can take some steps to make sure you keep your information safe and private, particularly if you are using a shared computer. I encourage you to ensure your anti-virus software is up to date and to use passwords that are difficult for others to guess.
We will usually agree an ending for therapy and will talk about this in good time. If we are working together and I don’t hear from you I will email to check in. If you don’t reply I will assume therapy has ended and won’t contact you again. You are welcome to get in touch if you want to book further sessions.
I hope our work together goes well and you feel able to raise any concerns with me so we can try to work things out. If this isn’t possible you can find information about how to make a complaint on the UKCP website.
I don’t offer urgent or crisis mental health support. If you need urgent support, please contact your GP, out of hours services and /or the NHS on 111 (urgent care) or go straight to A & E. You may, if you are struggling with suicidal thoughts, find this website useful Staying Safe.
Important Notes
Get in touch
You can contact me by email through this contact form. I am the only person that has access to my emails.
When you contact me, please let me know your name and provide a telephone number which you are happy for me to use to contact you (e.g. if we have technical issues).
I usually reply within 48 hours (weekdays) unless I am away. If I am away, you won’t receive a response to your email until I am back at work.
If you contact me and leave an email, I will assume it is ok to get back to you. If you don’t want me to reply to your email or ring you back (e.g. if I need to use your phone number in a remote session due to tech issues), please tell me. If this is the case, I will wait for you to re-contact me.
Please remember – these contact methods are not secure. This means we cannot guarantee complete confidentiality. I therefore suggest it is best not to write or discuss personal or sensitive information in an email.