Anxiety Counselling in The Lanes, Brighton

For me and my practice, it is really important to understand and acknowledge the complexity of every individuals experience. I endeavour to do this by holding an open mind and creating a safe boundaried space in which we can both get to know you better. I encorporate a range of theories and skills in order to best facilitate your individual process and needs. Within my practice I work with a range of issues such as anxiety & depression, sexual abuse, trauma, sexuality exploration, gender, anger, loss, illness and body image. I am currently working online.

Are you feeling anxious, depressed or experiencing low self-confidence? Would you like to examine your feelings about a bereavement or life event? Perhaps you wish to look at difficulties in your relationships with your partner or family, or maybe you’re considering how your past affects you now, as an adult. I can support you as you explore these issues and a wide range of other challenges. I offer effective, compassionate counselling in Brighton and Hove. At the start of our work, we'll identify what you want to achieve from counselling. Whether your aims are abstract specific, we can work towards them together.

Hello, and a warm welcome to you. I'm Kim and I offer a compassionate space where you can pause and reflect on what matters to you, without fear of judgement or the need to be anything other than you are. You may wish to focus on a particular issue, such as anxiety , grief or relationship difficulties, or to undergo a more general exploration into your inner world and the way you are living. My aim is to facilitate a collaborative relationship in which we can explore whatever you bring, at a pace that feels right for you.

I specialise in ERP for all subtypes of OCD. I also treat anxiety (social, GAD, panic ), depression, Bi-Polar & other mental health issues. I have extensive experience in supporting people through life events and transitions such as bereavement, religious trauma and faith crisis. As a Christian psychologist I support Christians who wish to integrate their faith and mental wellbeing and those who wish to explore their faith and doubts (including scrupulosity). I’m registered with all major UK insurers.

What do you need? Perhaps you want a space to explore your relationships, understand your anxiety or depression or simply a safe space to reflect. Perhaps something is holding you back and blocking or limiting your growth and expansion. Or maybe you want how you feel on the inside to match how you are on the outside; in your everyday experience.

Therapy offers a place to start to open up about what you are going through, experience empathy and feel heard. Throughout the therapeutic process you can start to build awareness and insight into their own psychology, change thoughts, behaviours and relational patterns that no longer serve you and to change your relationship with your self.

I will offer you safe, relaxed space for you to being heard and process your thoughts. You will never be judged here, instead you will receive empathy, unconditional positive regards and congruence. You are the expert of yourself while your actions are clouded by condition of worth you grew up with and by social norms. From now on you can give yourself a permission to leave more fulfilling life. I will walk beside you through your difficult moments and feelings that you outlive. This can help you to gain new perspective and explore possibilities to manage situations more effectively.

I imagine that you are here because life seems particularly tough at the moment. Perhaps you are anxious about the future, or suffering with difficult memories from the past. Perhaps you have realised that the relationship patterns you have developed are no longer working for you and you would like to find a new way of connecting to your partner or others. Perhaps you need some practical guidance with a sex related problem. Wouldn't it be good if a trusted professional, who is also warm and 'real' could help you find a positive way forward?

Hello I am an experienced and fully registered Psychotherapist. I will work with you to help you to work through and aleviate the difficulties you are facing. I work to support positive mental health by engaging clients in a thorough process where together we can come to understand and deal with the often very painful and distressing symptoms you may be experiencing. Often these come in the form of depressions, anxieties, anger, addictions and relationship difficulties. For more information on the Psychotherapeutic process and how it works and helps please see my website.

There are many reasons why people decide to come to therapy. You might be feeling overwhelmed and anxious or stuck and frustrated and you’d like to get clearer about what is bothering you. Or, perhaps, you know what you want to explore and you’d like some help to address the thoughts, feelings and behaviours you find challenging. It can be both supportive and practical to take some time each week to sift through the complexity of your life and come to understand yourself better. What therapy provides is a space to be really heard, with a deeper and more focused attention than that available in everyday conversations.

Welcome, People come to counselling for all sorts of reasons. There is no right or wrong thing to bring to our sessions. It may be that you are finding life difficult at the moment and just need a space to talk freely. Perhaps you are feeling overwhelmed, anxious or depressed and feel you need a safe space to explore this. Likewise there may have been an event in your past or more recent future that troubles you and you feel now is the time to unpick this. Alternately you may have goals and aspirations that you want to achieve but are not sure how. I can offer you a non-judgemental space to explore all aspects.

I have been in practise from 2012, both in private practise and working for The Young People' s Centre Brighton. My belief is only you can be the expert on yourself and therefore I aim to provide the conditions which allow you to explore your motivations and themes and make meaning from your own experience. I offer an empathic, non judgemental and respectful space. By building a relationship based on acceptance it becomes possible to look at, recognise and understand where problems in your life have arisen

My aim is not to provide a solution to your problems, but to help tolerate your distress, shifting your perception and discovering resources and choices available to you. I will offer to be with you as we collaboratively explore what it is like and what it means to be you. With warmth and compassion, I hope to build a therapeutic relationship based on trust, safety and an openness to the possibility of being vulnerable. Being curious about whatever we notice about the here-and-now experience of being human together can help to develop a greater awareness, understanding and acceptance of how and who you are.

Counselling has changed my life for the better and I chose to train as a Psychodynamic therapist to help others benefit in the same way. My approach places a strong emphasis on the relationship between client and therapist - in other words between you and me.

We all find relationships and intimacy challenging - being close to people challenges our beliefs about ourselves and our trusted ways of relating do not always serve us well. When we get stuck over and over again in our intimate, family or work relationships, it is often due to our deeply buried or unconscious beliefs about ourselves. Many of my clients express what a relief it can be to share their problems and to realise that they are not weird or sick. We all struggle for a reason. In a group it can be especially helpful to realise that you are not alone - there are other people struggling with 'what it means to be human'.

It can be really unsettling to deal with negative emotions by ourselves and to not know what we can do to help ourselves to feel better. I have been guiding clients for 13 years to achieve a resilient emotional stability and a more balanced sense of self-worth.

I am a Humanistic Integrative Therapist, which means I believe in people’s capacity for healing and growth. I draw on a variety of models, including Gestalt, Person-centred and Transactional Analysis, working in a way that meets each person’s individual needs. I offer a non-judgemental, empathic space in which we can establish a relationship built on warmth and trust. I’ll be led by what you want to bring at a pace that works for you. I will meet you with compassion, inviting a here-and-now exploration of your feelings, thoughts and experiences so that you can gain clarity and work towards making the changes you want to make.

Working with individuals and couples, online, I am an LGBTQ+ affirmative, trauma-informed psychodynamic therapist. Therapy involves a joint inquiry into the underlying beliefs and habitual ways of being and seeing that we carry. Regular sessions provide a reflective, confidential space for self-exploration and support, in which to look together at any areas of concern to you. As we begin to make sense of troubling, confusing or conflicting feelings and experiences, it can become possible to discover greater ease, choice and fulfillment in the present.

A psychodynamic therapist, I bring specific training and experience in trauma, in terminal and chronic illness & bereavement, alongside specialisms in gender, sexuality and relationship diversity (GSRD) and LGBTQ + affirmative practice. I have particular experience with supporting people through the process of questioning and discovery their gender identity. My work is deeply informed by my long-term past occupation as a gardener. This work taught me a great deal about presence. It taught me also about the nature of transformation, of the gains and the losses that can come with it, and the deep connection between the two.