What we offer
Outcast Psychology provides 50-minute online consultations and individual therapy for ages 16+, and clinical supervision to trainee and qualified therapists. All services use our sliding‑scale fees to make psychological care more accessible and sustainable for both clients and therapists.
Our services
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All new clients begin with a psychological consultation. Consultations involve an assessment and formulation of your experiences. Assessment means building a fuller picture of what is going on, looking at your current difficulties, your history, and what may be contributing to how things feel. Formulation means making sense of that picture together, looking at patterns, relationships, experiences and circumstances to develop a shared understanding of why things may feel the way they do. It allows us to think together about what kind of support might be most helpful. For some people, one consultation is enough as a one‑off space to reflect and think about next steps. For others, it becomes the starting point for ongoing therapy.
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Individual therapy offers ongoing support tailored to your needs and goals. It builds on the shared understanding developed in the consultation and creates space for deeper therapeutic work over time.
We usually recommend weekly sessions to begin with, to help us get to know each other, develop a clearer sense of what we’re working on and how, and establish some momentum. We’re also open to fortnightly sessions where that supports your access to therapy.
Where regular appointments are not immediately available, you may be offered ad‑hoc sessions until the therapist has a regular slot for you. We will only suggest this if we feel this way of working is safe and appropriate for what you are seeking support with.
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Individual clinical supervision is available for trainee and qualified therapists, supporting safe, ethical and reflective therapeutic work. Supervision is offered by practitioner psychologists with core training in person‑centred therapy and CBT, and experience integrating other approaches such as compassion‑focused therapy, schema therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy. All supervisors at Outcast Psychology choose to work with us because they align with our ethos and values around access, inclusivity and socially just practice.
Session fees
Outcast Psychology uses a sliding‑scale fee structure. This is intended to support accessibility and sustainability together, so that therapy can be more reachable while also remaining viable for the people offering it.
All appointments are offered at:
➤ £40 ➤ £70 ➤ £100 ➤ £130
The same service is offered at each band. The different fees reflect differences in people’s financial circumstances, not whether someone’s difficulties are “serious enough” to come to therapy.
How to choose your fee
Keeping honesty and transparency at the core of our practice, you do not need to provide financial documents to access our services. We hope that people choose the fee that is realistic for them, taking into account both what they can afford and the fact that lower-fee spaces need to remain available for those who need them most.
As a rough guide:
£40 – paying more would mean not meeting basic needs, taking on harmful debt, or creating serious financial strain.
£70 – you can cover essentials, but the higher bands would still create significant pressure or anxiety.
£100 – you can cover essentials and some non-essentials, and therapy at this rate feels affordable without major sacrifice.
£130 – you have more stable access to money or financial backup, and paying this rate is manageable without compromising your own stability.
If you are unsure which fee feels right for you, you can read more about it on our blog, or mention this when you get in touch so we can think through it together.
Why are fees set up this way?
Many private practices keep reduced‑fee work to a small number of spaces. Outcast Psychology is set up differently, with a clear fee structure designed so that reduced rates and industry standard rates sit alongside each other across the practice, rather than access being limited to a few places.
Our intention is to make therapy with a psychologist more financially realistic for a wider range of people, while also ensuring that therapists can stay well enough resourced to offer thoughtful, high‑quality work over time.