Workplace wellbeing · Online · Confidential
I'm Brian Sheppard, a clinical psychotherapist and mental health specialist, UKCP registered, with over 25 years in mental health. I provide confidential, person-centred psychotherapy to employees experiencing challenges that affect their emotional wellbeing, relationships, work performance and quality of life.
Does this sound familiar?
Work takes up more of our waking hours than almost anything else, so when it goes wrong it rarely stays at work. My areas of support include:
You don't have to be signed off, or close to it, for this to count. If work has been weighing on you for a while, that's reason enough to talk.
Let's talk it throughMy approach
My approach helps you develop greater self-awareness and find healthier ways of managing life's challenges. My aim is to help employees understand themselves better, improve their wellbeing and manage the demands of both their professional and personal lives.
I'm a person-centred psychotherapist, so I don't arrive with a script or a set of techniques to get you back to your desk faster. You talk about what's happening, at work and around it, and I help you notice the patterns underneath: the expectations you hold yourself to, the conflicts that keep repeating, the parts of you that only show up under pressure. Work problems are hardly ever only about work. They meet whatever else is going on in your life, and that's where the real change tends to happen.
I've spent over 25 years in mental health, in clinical practice, community services and higher education, and I still teach as a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing. I know what a demanding job does to a person, and how little room it can leave for your own head.
Sessions are online, over Zoom, for 50 minutes. You can join from home, from the car, or from a quiet room at work if that's what you have, with no time lost travelling across London.
Questions I'm often asked
Not from me. What you say in sessions stays between us, with the limits every registered psychotherapist in the UK works to: if I believed you or someone else was at serious risk of harm, or the law required it, I would need to act, and wherever possible I'd talk to you first. If your employer is paying for your sessions, we'll agree at the start exactly what, if anything, they're told. It's never the content of what we talk about.
No. Most people come because of something at work, and quite quickly find it connects to other things: a relationship under strain, a separation, being a parent, or old patterns from much earlier on. All of it is welcome. If home is the bigger part of it, my relationship counselling online and divorce counselling pages go into more detail.
Not at all. Many of the people I see are still working, still functioning, and simply tired of holding it together. Coming earlier usually means less to untangle later. If you're in crisis right now, weekly sessions aren't the right first step, so please use the numbers at the bottom of this page.
Yes. If you're an employer or HR lead and want to offer confidential psychotherapy to an employee, get in touch through the booking page and we can talk about how it could work. The sessions themselves are one-to-one, and the employee's confidentiality is the same as for anyone else.
Fees and first step
Sessions are 50 minutes over Zoom and cost £80. I keep a small number of reduced-fee places for people on a low income; ask me on the introductory call. How everything works, including cancellations, is on my fees and concessions page.
Before anything else, we have a free introductory call. You tell me a bit about what's going on, I tell you how I work, and we both get a feel for whether it's a fit. No pressure, no obligation. If it isn't right, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.
£80 per session
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