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A narrow stone side street in Hebden Bridge under grey daylight, wet setts leading towards a small lit shop window

Rookwood Counselling · counselling and psychotherapy, Hebden Bridge

Two therapists, a quiet room above a bookbinder's, and a free 20-minute call before anything else.

Arrange the free call
the side street Hebden Bridge, and online
A bookbinder's shop window with stacked cloth-bound books and a brass sign, lamplight inside and grey stone around the frame
The bookbinder's, on the ground floor. Our door is just past it.

That's the bookbinder's. The room is above it.

  • Adults on their own come up here with anxiety, low mood, grief, or something that hasn't got a name yet. That's counselling for adults, and it's most of what we do.
  • Couples come up too, when the same conversation keeps going round, or has stopped happening at all. Either of you can make the first call about couples counselling.
  • A good many of the people who climb these stairs have never had therapy before. You don't need to know how it goes. That part is ours.
the bookbinder's window Adults on their own, and couples

It's up these stairs. A few plain things on the way.

A plain wooden staircase with a worn handrail rising past a whitewashed wall towards daylight from a landing window
One flight, a landing, and the door on the left.
  1. step one

    A session is 50 minutes.

    Long enough to get somewhere, short enough to get home afterwards.

  2. step two

    £65 a session. £85 for a couple.

    The same whether you sit in the room or join online.

  3. step three

    A small number of reduced-fee places.

    If cost is the thing in the way, say so on the call.

  4. step four

    Tuesdays and Thursdays run until 20:00.

    Evening appointments, for people who can't get away in the day.

All of it, plainly: fees, sessions and privacy
up the stairs 50 minutes · £65, or £85 for couples
An armchair, a mug and a closed laptop in a lamplit corner of a home with the curtains drawn
Your own chair does just as well.

Or join from wherever you are.

If Hebden Bridge is a long way off, or leaving the house is the hard part, sessions online are the same thing: the same 50 minutes, Mari or Dan, the same fee, and the same free call first.

You need a quiet corner, a reasonably steady connection, and a door you can close for an hour. We'll send the link.

How online sessions work
or online Online counselling, just as welcome
A calm upstairs room with two armchairs turned towards a sash window, grey hills visible beyond the glass
the door, and the room Private, and unhurried

This is the door, and this is the room.

Two chairs, a window, the hills. The door closes, and what you say here stays here. The one exception is if we believed you or someone else was at serious risk, and where we could, we'd talk to you about that first.

Fifty minutes is longer than it sounds. You can sit down and say nothing for a while if that's where you are. Nobody in this room is in a hurry.

How private it is

Mari and Dan, at the window.

Two therapists, one room, working here together since 2017. You'd be seeing one of us, and the free call is a good place to work out which.

An armchair beside a sash window with a folded blanket on its arm, grey hill light across the seat
The chair nearest the window.

Mari Sutcliffe

Counsellor and psychotherapist · registered member of the BACP

People often tell me they'd been meaning to ring for months. That's all right. We start from wherever you happen to be.

Mari sees adults on their own and couples, in the room and online, and has been in this room since the practice opened in 2017.

An armchair next to a small wooden table with an open notebook and pen, positioned by a window.
The chair by the window.

Dan Okafor

Counsellor and psychotherapist · registered member of the BACP

I'm interested in the things people find hard to say out loud, and in giving them long enough to say them.

Dan sees adults and couples too, including a good many people who weren't sure therapy was for them until they'd tried the call.

Read about Mari and Dan properly
the window Working here together since 2017

When you're ready, a free 20-minute call.

Ring or write, and Mari or Dan will talk with you for twenty minutes about what's going on and whether this feels like the right place. It costs nothing, and there's nothing to decide today.

01632 960 527 hello@example.com
Arrange a free 20-minute call or read about Mari and Dan first

We're here Monday to Friday, with evenings on Tuesdays and Thursdays. If we're with someone when you ring, leave a message and one of us will call you back.

the free call Nothing to decide today