Before you reach out.

Ivybridge Counselling is a structured counselling practice for adults moving through life transitions, relationship change, and family adjustment. Engagements are scoped to a defined number of sessions and a fixed total fee, paid in full at booking.

It is not a crisis service. It is not a clinical psychiatric service. It is not a service for acute mental-health presentations that require specialist treatment, medication management, or hospital-based care. Sessions are conversation-led and reflective; they are not a substitute for any of the above.

If your situation involves longer-term mental health needs that sit outside the scope of structured transitional counselling — for example a clinical condition requiring specialist treatment, a need for medication review, or care that needs a multidisciplinary clinical team — please speak with your GP about appropriate qualified referrals.

Acute, very recent bereavement is often best supported by a bereavement-specialist organisation in the early weeks; Ivybridge tends to be a closer fit for the longer adjustment that follows. If your situation is heavily focused on a couple or family dynamic in real time, a relationships service such as Relate may be more appropriate than individual counselling.

If you're unsure which kind of support fits, the Discovery Conversation is a good place to think it through together. I'll say honestly if a different provider would serve you better.