Welcome to Poplar House Psychotherapy

Systemic, Family and Couple Psychotherapy offering both online psychotherapy and face-to face psychotherapy in New Mills, SK22 covering Greater Manchester, Stockport, High Peak and Cheshire.

Systemic, Family and Couple Psychotherapy in High Peak / Cheshire

I work with families, couples and individuals—providing Systemic Psychotherapy to adults, children and young people.

My name is Karen Wright, I am a fully qualified Systemic Family and Couple Psychotherapist and a qualified Social Worker. I am registered with the UKCP (UK Council for Psychotherapy), AFT (Association for Family Therapy & Systemic Practice) and Social Work England.

Research shows Systemic Psychotherapy is helpful for children, young people, adults and older adults experiencing a wide range of mental health difficulties and interpersonal issues and circumstances, across all age ranges from infants to old age.

My Approach

I offer relational psychotherapy, and I draw on many different models of systemic therapy in my practice. I bring warmth, humour and creativity to my work.  I take a trauma-informed approach, ensuring the development of a safe therapeutic relationship. I work transparently and collaboratively with clients and utilise my knowledge of the current evidence base in my field. I also have specific training in the treatment of adolescent eating disorders, adolescent depression, couple therapy and attachment difficulties.

Session Information

My Services

I offer individual (child and adult), couple and family psychotherapy appointments both online across the UK or in person at my private office in New Mills, SK22 within access of Greater Manchester, Stockport, Tameside, Cheshire and Derbyshire.

Session length

An initial assessment session is slightly longer and takes 1.5-hour for our appointment. Individual sessions are 60-minutes. Generally, when working with families and couples, it is useful to have longer appointments of 90 minutes, less frequently.

Session Fees

Sessions cost £110 an hour. Please get in touch if you have any questions regarding my fees.

Cancellation of sessions with less than 48 hours’ notice will incur the full fee.

The location of my private office is in New Mills, SK22

I work from my private practice office in New Mills, High Peak, SK22 which is accessible from all of Greater Manchester (near to Stockport and Tameside), Cheshire and Derbyshire by car.


The area is served by two different train stations (New Mills Central and Newtown) but a taxi would be required unless clients were happy to walk for around 30 minutes).


Office address details will be provided after initial consultation.

Get in touch

Please contact me using the form below if you have any questions or to arrange an initial consultation. You can also book a session by clicking here.

Frequently asked questions

What does it mean if someone is a psychotherapist?

Psychotherapists undergo a four-year, postgraduate, in-depth and experiential training in how to work with a variety of people with a wide range of emotional distress, mental health issues and difficulties. Psychotherapists are trained in one or more psychotherapy approaches. (UKCP)

Are our sessions confidential?

I am registered with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) and therefore bound by their guidelines as well as my professional bodies (UKCP & AFT). I have a separate privacy policy which I will need you to read and agree to at the start of therapy. The content of our sessions is confidential but there are limits of confidentiality to ensure clients safety and I will discuss these with you at our first meeting. If I work with family members/individuals separately and together I will not share information with you without gaining consent first. Parents need to appreciate that their child(ren) may need a confidential space where information is not shared, and this is similar for couples. 

To ensure your safety, monitor my practice and in line with my professional registration, I receive regular clinical supervision but no identifying information about clients is shared with my supervisors.

What professional standards do you adhere to?

I am a member of the UKCP (UK Council for Psychotherapy) and AFT (Association for Family Therapy & Systemic Practice). The high standards of the UKCP register are accredited by the Professional Standards Authority. I am bound by these professional bodies' codes of ethics and practice and subject to their complaint procedures. This includes adhering to their strict standards of clinical supervision of my practice and continued professional development.

How often do I need psychotherapy and how long are the sessions?

The frequency and duration of the therapy will depend on the type of difficulty or problem you are facing and therefore is difficult to anticipate. Generally, I don't see people every week on a long-term basis as it is beneficial for you to have time in between appointments to practice being different with one another. 


I may offer weekly or fortnightly sessions to start with to initiate some changes, then sessions may become less frequent. Some people prefer to work with an open contract, whereas others prefer to work with a fixed number of sessions, followed by a review, this is your choice.


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