Counselling in Bude, North Cornwall, and online
The relationship is where change happens
I’m John Walter, a relational counsellor. I work with couples, individuals, children and young people, in person in Bude and online wherever you are. If things between you and the people who matter have become stuck, distant, or sour, that’s where we start.
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What brings people
Where you might be starting from
Couples and relationships
The same argument on a loop. Living more like flatmates than partners. The distance that opens up as life moves on: a new baby, an empty house, an affair, a loss. We work with what’s between you, so you can stay yourselves and still be close.
Individuals
Anxiety, low mood, grief, a loss of direction, or carrying more than you can say out loud. Often the work reaches into your closest relationships, and the patterns of relating that have been with you a long time. A particular interest in men’s mental health.
Children and young people
Children finding school hard or learning at home, and children in care or living with kinship guardians. Teenagers too, when talking has dried up or every conversation turns into the same standoff. Steady work at their pace, finding ways to say what’s hard to put into words.
A little about me
Thirty-five years before the consulting room
I came to counselling after a significant personal loss, and after about thirty-five years of work that all fed into it: a therapeutic community, child-centred teaching, foster parenting, and men’s work. I treat the practice as the sum of all that, not a fresh start. I’m accredited and registered with the NCPS.
A simple next step
It starts with a free phone call
Fees – In person, Bude
- Individuals £60
- Couples £95
- Children and young people £40
My fees for working in person in Bude are lower than my online fees, and that’s on purpose. Cornwall is one of the lower-income parts of the country, and I don’t want the cost to be the thing that stops a local person from sitting in the room with me.
Fees – Online, UK
- Individuals £75
- Couples £120