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Anxiety
The racing mind, the chest that won’t settle, the sense that something is about to go wrong. We work with it slowly, without trying to argue it away.
Quiet Mind Therapy
01223 405 770Cambridge · Online · Since 2014
Bring whatever you’re carrying. We’ll set it down together.
Psychotherapy and counselling in a quiet consulting room near Parker’s Piece — or online, wherever you are. Twelve years of clinical practice, BACP accredited, and unhurried by design. There is no waiting list and no obligation to commit beyond one session.
BACP Accredited Member·12 Years Clinical Experience·EMDR Europe Practitioner·Sliding-scale fees available
I — How We Work
A quieter kind of therapy.
We begin where you are. There is no questionnaire to fill in before we meet, no diagnosis required, and no need to know what is wrong. The first session is simply a conversation about what brought you here, and what you would like to be different.
We go at your pace. Some things take a few weeks. Others take a year, or longer. We will check in regularly about how the work is feeling, and you are always free to stop, pause, or change direction. Therapy is yours, not ours.
We use what fits, not what’s fashionable. Integrative practice means drawing from CBT, EMDR, person-centred and psychodynamic traditions — choosing the approach that suits the person in front of us, not the other way around.
We keep it confidential, always. What you say in this room stays in this room. The only exceptions are the standard safeguarding limits, which we will explain clearly at the outset. No notes are ever shared without your written consent.
II — What We Work With
You don’t need a diagnosis.
Some of the things people come in with. There are many more, and the list isn’t the point — if something has been sitting heavily on you, that’s reason enough to pick up the phone.
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Depression
When everything feels heavy, distant, or simply not worth it. There is no rush in this room — we go at the pace you can manage.
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Trauma & PTSD
Past events that still arrive uninvited. EMDR and trauma-focused work, gentle and structured, with full consent at every step.
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Relationship Difficulties
Couples therapy for the conversations that keep going round in circles — or for one partner working alone on what they bring to it.
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Grief & Loss
There is no right way to grieve, and no fixed timetable. A quiet hour each week to carry it alongside someone who isn’t frightened by it.
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Burnout & Stress
When the job, the role, or the caring has emptied you out. We look at what has been asked of you, and what you actually have to give.
III — Sessions & Fees
Clear, honest fees.
Sessions are fifty minutes, usually weekly. A sliding-scale rate is available for students, NHS staff, and anyone whose circumstances make full fees difficult — please do ask.
Initial consultation
Complimentary
30 minutes, by phone or video
Individual therapy
£75 per session
50 minutes, weekly
Couples therapy
£95 per session
60 minutes, weekly or fortnightly
EMDR / trauma-focused work
£85 per session
60 to 90 minutes
CBT (short-term)
£75 per session
6 to 12 week course
Online sessions (video)
£70 per session
Anywhere in the UK
Sliding-scale fee
From £40 per session
By honest conversation
The initial consultation is a conversation, not a commitment. If we’re not the right fit, we will say so and suggest someone who might be.
IV — Your First Steps
From first phone call
to first session.
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You ring or email.
We’ll usually reply the same day. A short call to hear what’s prompted you to look for therapy — nothing detailed, just enough to know if I’m the right person to help.
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A free thirty-minute consultation.
By phone or video. We talk a little more openly. You ask anything you want to ask about how I work, what to expect, and whether it feels like a fit.
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If you’d like to continue, we book in.
Sessions are at the same time each week where possible. In-person at the Cambridge consulting room, or by secure video — whichever suits you.
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We review the work together.
Every six to eight weeks we step back and look at how things are going. Therapy that doesn’t check in on itself isn’t doing its job.
V — About The Practice
A small practice, steadily kept.
Quiet Mind Therapy was founded in 2014 by Dr Helena Marsh, a psychotherapist trained at the Tavistock and accredited by the BACP. The practice has stayed deliberately small — a single consulting room a short walk from Parker’s Piece, and a caseload kept low enough that no one becomes a number.
Helena works integratively, drawing on psychodynamic, person-centred, CBT and EMDR traditions. The choice of approach is made with the person sitting opposite, not before they arrive.
Twelve years on, much of the work comes through quiet referral — from GPs, from former clients, from people who have heard the practice spoken about kindly. We take that as the best sort of recommendation, and try every week to be worthy of it.
From a former client
“I’d tried therapy twice before and bounced out of both. Helena was different from the first call — unhurried, kind, and unbothered by my mess. Eighteen months on, the things I came in with no longer run my days. I am grateful, quietly and lastingly.”
R · Individual therapy, 2024
VI — Arrange A Consultation
The first conversation
is always free.
Thirty minutes, by phone or video, with no obligation and no notes taken. It is entirely confidential, and you don’t need to know what to say before you ring.
Call 01223 405 770 →Consulting Room
14 Park Terrace
Cambridge
CB1 1JH
Cambridge
CB1 1JH
Session Hours
Mon – Thu · 9.00 – 19.00
Fri · 9.00 – 16.00
Evening slots available
Fri · 9.00 – 16.00
Evening slots available