Fees, sessions and privacy
Most people checking this page at night want four things settled before they'll let themselves ring. Here they are, straight. Everything else on the page is the longer version.
50 minutes
The same length in the room or online, for one person or for two.
£65
For a session with Mari or Dan, paid session by session. Nothing to sign up to.
£85
For the two of you together, the same 50 minutes with the same therapist each time.
A free call
Twenty minutes on the phone with one of us first, so nobody books blind.
We keep a small number of places at a lower fee for people who couldn't come otherwise. There's no form, no proof to bring and no list of who counts. You mention it on the free call, in whatever words you like, and we'll tell you honestly whether one of those places is free at the moment.
Because there are only a few, there are weeks when they're all taken. If that's the case we'll say so, and tell you when one might come round, rather than leave you waiting on a maybe.
Asking doesn't change how you're seen on the stairs or in the room. Both of us have taken reduced-fee places since 2017, and we'd rather you came than went without. What the free call is for says more about how that conversation goes.
A small number of reduced-fee places. Ask on the call; nothing to fill in.
The room is open five days a week. On Tuesdays and Thursdays we stay until eight in the evening, which is for people who work days and can't get away at three in the afternoon. Online sessions run to the same hours.
Evening appointments until 20:00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The last session of those days starts at seven.
Most people keep the same day and time each week. If a week doesn't work, tell us as early as you can and we'll find another slot where there is one.
Some people want to climb the stairs. Some live too far up the valley, or too far from it, or find leaving the house the hardest part. Either way it's the same 50 minutes with the same person for the same fee.
Up one flight of stairs above the bookbinder's on a side street in Hebden Bridge, a few minutes' walk from the station and the bus. Two chairs, a window, a low table, a door that shuts. There's no waiting room and no one at a desk; you come up at your time and your therapist meets you at the door.
£65 a session, £85 for couples. Directions come with the free call.
A video call from wherever you are in the UK, with Mari or Dan sitting in the same room you'd otherwise come to, door shut. We send the link the day before. You need a quiet corner, a steady enough connection and an hour nobody will walk in on. Headphones help if the walls are thin.
The same fee and the same 50 minutes. If you usually come to the room and one week you can't, ask about doing that session online; it's normally simple to arrange.
Hebden Bridge is small enough that people worry about being seen going in. So here is what going in actually looks like: a plain street door beside a bookbinder's, on a side street where people are mostly heading somewhere else. There's no plaque, no waiting room, nobody at a desk asking your name. Someone passing would take you for a person going upstairs, which is all you are.
We leave a gap between appointments so that, as far as we can manage it, you don't meet the person before you on the stairs or the person after you on the step. It's not watertight in an old building with one staircase, but it's close.
If one of us passes you in the Co-op or on the towpath, we'll leave it to you whether to say hello. We won't be offended either way, and we won't mention where we know you from.
What you say in the room stays between you and your therapist. Mari and Dan don't discuss each other's clients. We keep brief notes, kept securely, and we don't share them. Online sessions are taken from this room with the door shut, on the call link we send you, and the same applies.
If we believed you or someone else was at serious risk of harm, we might have to speak to someone outside the room. Wherever we possibly could, we'd talk to you about that first. Ask about it on the free call and we'll go through it properly.
Whether it's the stairs, the fee, which of us you'd rather see or something you'd feel daft putting in an email, the call is where those questions go. It costs nothing, Mari or Dan answers, and you decide afterwards.