First is price. The standard rate of many counsellors in Christchurch at the time of the writing of this post is somewhere around NZD 90 – 120 dollars. This is beyond the financial means of many New Zealanders.

Second is physical access to counselling services. When you are having difficulties, it can be difficult to get yourself to a counselling practice, especially if this trip involves public transport. Once you get to counselling, you then have to manage to make your way back home, sometimes in not the best of emotional states.

These have been the top two issues that we have heard, so we are developing a therapy product to help improve the needed access to therapy services for those around New Zealand. We have been offering online counselling for clients worldwide, but we are now offering telephone counselling for our clients not only in Christchurch, but for those in all of New Zealand, including Wellington, Auckland and Dunedin. Our company director, Jerry Jordan, has experience as a telephone counsellor and as a trainer for telephone counsellors, so while this service is a new offering by our offices, it is backed with experience in telephone therapy.

While our in-person rates are currently NZD 120 per session (see our pricing link for updated rates as this page ages), we will be offering telephone counselling for NZD 50 per session. Because of this reduced rate, we will be scheduling this service outside of our regular office hours (which many clients would find very useful). We will be writing about this over the coming months, but basically you will be able to pay your counselling invoice online and we will schedule a time to phone you.

We want to make needed counselling services more readily available for those who need help and we hope that this service will be of assistance.

[Please note: These services are not just available for those in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland! If you are in New Zealand and have a landline, you can schedule therapy with us.]

If we don’t find a suitable space soon, we will probably wait until after the first of the new year to begin our search again. If you know of commercial or residential properties that might suit our needs, feel free to contact us with details.

Looking forward to offering counselling services to the people of Christchurch.

Here’s to a rekindled passion for life and love!

Jerry