Our Story
Meet Jess Harrison and Kitty Alice, the dynamic mother-daughter team behind Counterpoise Wellness. Founded in April 2020, this innovative evidence-based mental health service emerged from Kitty's Childhood PTSD resulting in a 10 year battle with Anorexia Nervosa. Desperate for support, Kitty and Jess experienced long NHS waiting times, multiagency interventions and paid for countless expensive therapies … an experience sadly far too many can relate to. Anorexia Nervosa left Kitty so ill that at one stage she was given two weeks left to live. As Kitty slowly recovered, her mother Jess returned to her studies and this lived experience became an essential part of working as a qualified counselling therapist. Combining Jess’ knowledge of evidence-based talking therapy and Kitty’s experience working in elite sports and community provision, they co-founded Counterpoise. Determined to shake up the wellness industry and make affordable, ‘no-nonsense’ private therapy more accessible to everyone.
Click here for supportOur Values
At Counterpoise, our core values are integrity, impact, diversity, curiosity, and balance. Fundamentally, we pride ourselves on our authenticity, celebrate the unique perspectives and skills of our diverse team, and are driven by the sole mission to make people feel better. We want to raise mental health awareness, reduce the stigma around therapy, and make a positive impact through providing personal, evidence-based, and accessible support.
Why us?
We carefully hand-pick every practitioner on our team and only recommend those we’d genuinely trust to support our own friends and family.
We've helped hundreds of people feel like themselves again!
The key to good therapy is finding the right therapist.
At Counterpoise we know that a one-size-fits-all approach to mental health doesn’t work!
Have you had a bad experience with therapy before?
Firstly, we're sorry and trust us we’ve been there!
That’s why we’ve built therapy differently:
1) We won't ever mass employ practitioners. We hire quality practitioners over quantity. Kitty and Jess, our co-founders, have hand-picked every single practitioner on our team. We have a proudly rigorous and personal recruitment process.
2) Transparent, affordable pricing: There's no hidden costs or sneaky subscriptions around here. You can book a pay-as-you-go 30 minute or 1 hour session from as little as £22.
3) Real human care: No bots, you'll always talk to a real person who genuinely cares.
4) We're flexible: Book single sessions or in bulk, whatever works best for you!
