Bereavement Counselling in Brighton

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Sharon O'Driscoll
Psychologist, PsychD, HCPC - Couns. Psych.
Verified Verified
Brighton BN2
My work with adults covers areas such as addiction, bereavement, meaning in midlife, self-esteem and self-loathing, low mood, anxiety, health-based trauma and relationship breakdown.
Understanding ourselves, the decisions and choices we make and our relationships with others can sometimes be baffling. You may find yourself acting or behaving in ways that you struggle to align with your personal principles, wishes or desires. At times, your experience may suggest that your way of being doesn't blend with the world around you and you might find yourself meeting resistance from people or institutions. Therapy gives us the chance to explore these challenges together. We can look at your relationships with others and the meaning you make of them, helping to develop your insight, self-awareness and self-acceptance.
My work with adults covers areas such as addiction, bereavement, meaning in midlife, self-esteem and self-loathing, low mood, anxiety, health-based trauma and relationship breakdown.
Understanding ourselves, the decisions and choices we make and our relationships with others can sometimes be baffling. You may find yourself acting or behaving in ways that you struggle to align with your personal principles, wishes or desires. At times, your experience may suggest that your way of being doesn't blend with the world around you and you might find yourself meeting resistance from people or institutions. Therapy gives us the chance to explore these challenges together. We can look at your relationships with others and the meaning you make of them, helping to develop your insight, self-awareness and self-acceptance.
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Fiona May
Counsellor, MBACP
Verified Verified
Brighton BN2  (Online Only)
I specialise in working with adolescents, young adults and with bereavement.
Life can present us with many challenges. The build-up of everyday stresses and disappointments, or the ability to cope with sadness and pain may at times affect your self-esteem and confidence levels. You may feel the need for support in addition to what you already have in place, which is when you may decide to seek the help of a counsellor. I run my private practice on Tuesdays between 10am-7pm offering remote sessions either by Zoom or telephone - please visit my website for more info. Contact me to arrange a free 30 minute introductory session to help you decide whether I am the right person to work with you.
I specialise in working with adolescents, young adults and with bereavement.
Life can present us with many challenges. The build-up of everyday stresses and disappointments, or the ability to cope with sadness and pain may at times affect your self-esteem and confidence levels. You may feel the need for support in addition to what you already have in place, which is when you may decide to seek the help of a counsellor. I run my private practice on Tuesdays between 10am-7pm offering remote sessions either by Zoom or telephone - please visit my website for more info. Contact me to arrange a free 30 minute introductory session to help you decide whether I am the right person to work with you.
01273 121183 View 01273 121183
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Laura Ruth Davenport
Counsellor, MBACP
Verified Verified
Brighton BN2
The decision to try therapy can seem very daunting, but you have already taken the first step if you are here in this directory. Dealing with difficult issues, loss, bereavement, trauma, divorce/separation, identity , etc can feel utterly overwhelming. Initially, the prospect of sharing such experience may feel like a step too far. My own and clients’ experiences have shown me time & again that it is through the process of talking therapy that in sharing the burden the healing can begin. I have a passionate belief in the power of the wounded, with support, to find some reconciliation, with themselves, their history & in relationship
The decision to try therapy can seem very daunting, but you have already taken the first step if you are here in this directory. Dealing with difficult issues, loss, bereavement, trauma, divorce/separation, identity , etc can feel utterly overwhelming. Initially, the prospect of sharing such experience may feel like a step too far. My own and clients’ experiences have shown me time & again that it is through the process of talking therapy that in sharing the burden the healing can begin. I have a passionate belief in the power of the wounded, with support, to find some reconciliation, with themselves, their history & in relationship
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Steve Broome
Counsellor, MBACP
Verified Verified
Brighton BN1
I also have particular interests in bereavement, loneliness, self-worth, life changes, identity, feeling overwhelmed/stuck, and finding meaning in life.
Starting counselling can feel like a daunting journey. I am here to provide you with the support you need to help you process your thoughts and feelings, and explore how you might move forward in your life. I am non-judgemental, accepting of you and your experiences, and here to listen to and work with whatever is on your mind. While counselling can be challenging at times, it can also come as a huge relief and be experienced as liberating and growthful.
I also have particular interests in bereavement, loneliness, self-worth, life changes, identity, feeling overwhelmed/stuck, and finding meaning in life.
Starting counselling can feel like a daunting journey. I am here to provide you with the support you need to help you process your thoughts and feelings, and explore how you might move forward in your life. I am non-judgemental, accepting of you and your experiences, and here to listen to and work with whatever is on your mind. While counselling can be challenging at times, it can also come as a huge relief and be experienced as liberating and growthful.
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Carl Harrison
Counsellor, MBACP
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Brighton BN1  (Online Only)
Any number of issues could be the reason you're reading this now: anxiety, depression, bereavement.  Perhaps you feel stuck, unsure what to do, or don't think you can change. Maybe you're feeling overwhelmed with, 'everything'.  Perhaps now is the right time for you to be truly listened to. If this is the case then I can offer you my help.
Any number of issues could be the reason you're reading this now: anxiety, depression, bereavement.  Perhaps you feel stuck, unsure what to do, or don't think you can change. Maybe you're feeling overwhelmed with, 'everything'.  Perhaps now is the right time for you to be truly listened to. If this is the case then I can offer you my help.
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Rebecca Holland
Psychotherapist, MA, HCPC-Art Therap.
Verified Verified
Brighton BN1  (Online Only)
Waitlist for new clients
Hello, thank you for visiting my page. I am an Art psychotherapist and EMDR Therapist. I help people who may be feeling depressed, anxious, experienced trauma, loss or need a space to explore relationships. Together we start where you feel safe and think about your goals for therapy. Sometimes words are too difficult and we need another tool to help talk. The use of art materials whilst speaking can create a non-intrusive and gentle way to explore past experiences. Or use of EMDR to help process difficult memories.
Hello, thank you for visiting my page. I am an Art psychotherapist and EMDR Therapist. I help people who may be feeling depressed, anxious, experienced trauma, loss or need a space to explore relationships. Together we start where you feel safe and think about your goals for therapy. Sometimes words are too difficult and we need another tool to help talk. The use of art materials whilst speaking can create a non-intrusive and gentle way to explore past experiences. Or use of EMDR to help process difficult memories.
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Liane Kirkcaldy
Counsellor, MBACP
Verified Verified
Brighton BN2
I am also experienced and trained in bereavement and addiction work.
Are you seeking clarity about how to break free from restrictive cycles or patterns of thoughts and behaviours? Do you feel these issues are preventing you from living your life to the full? Perhaps you are struggling to move forward after a significant loss such as a bereavement, divorce, health problems. With my professional support, you can gain a deeper understanding of why these blocks are present. During our sessions, I can help you to find a path through these challenges to a place where growth, change and enhanced wellbeing become possible.
I am also experienced and trained in bereavement and addiction work.
Are you seeking clarity about how to break free from restrictive cycles or patterns of thoughts and behaviours? Do you feel these issues are preventing you from living your life to the full? Perhaps you are struggling to move forward after a significant loss such as a bereavement, divorce, health problems. With my professional support, you can gain a deeper understanding of why these blocks are present. During our sessions, I can help you to find a path through these challenges to a place where growth, change and enhanced wellbeing become possible.
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Mali Edgar
Counsellor, MBACP
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Brighton BN1  (Online Only)
I am experienced in working with anxiety, grief, fear of dying and loss of identity.
If you find yourself overthinking events of the past, overthinking actions you have taken, or feeling preoccupied with how others see you. Counselling can help you to explore these feelings, to ask ourselves whether our ways of thinking are benefitting us. I am here to support you, forming a relationship with your counsellor is the foundation to being able to open up and build trust to get the most out of working together. Together we will look at what has brought you to counselling and what you hope to gain from this experience.
I am experienced in working with anxiety, grief, fear of dying and loss of identity.
If you find yourself overthinking events of the past, overthinking actions you have taken, or feeling preoccupied with how others see you. Counselling can help you to explore these feelings, to ask ourselves whether our ways of thinking are benefitting us. I am here to support you, forming a relationship with your counsellor is the foundation to being able to open up and build trust to get the most out of working together. Together we will look at what has brought you to counselling and what you hope to gain from this experience.
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Anthony Louis Austin
Counsellor, BACP
Verified Verified
Brighton BN2
I specialise in helping individuals deal with common life problems including anxiety, depression, relationship breakdown and bereavement.
Are you feeling depressed, confused about what you feel, ground down to the point where you feel unable to cope, or simply wishing you could talk to someone and feel understood? Individuals choose therapy for a variety of reasons and often the biggest hurdle to getting help is an inner voice telling us our problems are nothing special and we should "just get on with it". I provide a safe, empathic environment where you can talk about your concerns without fear of being judged and to provide you with the means to work out your own answers and create the life you want.
I specialise in helping individuals deal with common life problems including anxiety, depression, relationship breakdown and bereavement.
Are you feeling depressed, confused about what you feel, ground down to the point where you feel unable to cope, or simply wishing you could talk to someone and feel understood? Individuals choose therapy for a variety of reasons and often the biggest hurdle to getting help is an inner voice telling us our problems are nothing special and we should "just get on with it". I provide a safe, empathic environment where you can talk about your concerns without fear of being judged and to provide you with the means to work out your own answers and create the life you want.
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Crysalis therapy clinic
Counsellor, BACP
Verified Verified
Brighton BN2
The clinic is a non-judgemental, respectful environment in which people can speak freely about what’s wrong. As a trained counsellor, I encourage my clients to develop insight into self-damaging or limiting thought and behaviour patterns - and I help them make positive change and move forward into a happier life. It could be depression, stress and anxiety, bereavement and loss, cross-cultural issues, life changes or an abusive relationship. The Crysalis clinic is available to anyone who is struggling to cope.
The clinic is a non-judgemental, respectful environment in which people can speak freely about what’s wrong. As a trained counsellor, I encourage my clients to develop insight into self-damaging or limiting thought and behaviour patterns - and I help them make positive change and move forward into a happier life. It could be depression, stress and anxiety, bereavement and loss, cross-cultural issues, life changes or an abusive relationship. The Crysalis clinic is available to anyone who is struggling to cope.
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Sarah Noble-Jones
Counsellor, MBACP Accred
Verified Verified
Brighton BN2
An experienced and sensitive bereavement counsellor, I also have considerable interest and experience working with developmental disruptions such as shame and low self-esteem and problems in relationships.
Life can sometimes feel overwhelming: anxiety, lack of self-esteem, self-criticism, grief, life changes – are you struggling with issues and difficult feelings that are hard to manage alone, perhaps even more in this current climate? Attentive, respectful and caring therapy can be a powerfully supportive and healing choice towards regaining a sense of hope and purpose. Together we work to gently uncover what you need to be able to live in a more fulfilled, meaningful and satisfying way.
An experienced and sensitive bereavement counsellor, I also have considerable interest and experience working with developmental disruptions such as shame and low self-esteem and problems in relationships.
Life can sometimes feel overwhelming: anxiety, lack of self-esteem, self-criticism, grief, life changes – are you struggling with issues and difficult feelings that are hard to manage alone, perhaps even more in this current climate? Attentive, respectful and caring therapy can be a powerfully supportive and healing choice towards regaining a sense of hope and purpose. Together we work to gently uncover what you need to be able to live in a more fulfilled, meaningful and satisfying way.
01273 036139 View 01273 036139
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Jenny Stewart
Counsellor, MA
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Brighton BN1
I offer weekly therapy and have wide experience. I have a particular focus on working with clients experiencing challenges or conflict in relationships. If you are feeling you need some support to get through a difficult time in your relationship with your partner, or you are wondering how to manage a relationship loss or breakdown or you're feeling anxious or overwhelmed, please feel free to get in touch. It may help you to gain some perspective and clarity and to navigate a path through your difficulties. You don't need to feel stuck, I will work with you to find a way forward that feels right for you.
I offer weekly therapy and have wide experience. I have a particular focus on working with clients experiencing challenges or conflict in relationships. If you are feeling you need some support to get through a difficult time in your relationship with your partner, or you are wondering how to manage a relationship loss or breakdown or you're feeling anxious or overwhelmed, please feel free to get in touch. It may help you to gain some perspective and clarity and to navigate a path through your difficulties. You don't need to feel stuck, I will work with you to find a way forward that feels right for you.
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Sophie Yule
Counsellor, MBACP
Verified Verified
Brighton BN1
Areas I have worked in: Anxiety, depression, bereavement, grief and loss, baby loss, restrictive eating disorders, stress, ADD, childhood trauma and neglect, addiction, breakdown of relationships.
Availability from mid December on Monday's and Tuesday afternoons. Taking that first step to find a counsellor can sometimes be the hardest, but you’re here. Whether you are overwhelmed with your work/life balance and feeling like you have no time to stop, living with hurt, experienced a loss or feel ready to process past thoughts, behaviours or feelings. I can sit alongside you; not a ‘me and you’ but as equals and offer a non judgemental, confidential, and safe space to navigate these feelings and take that next 2nd step but at your pace as you feel ready.
Areas I have worked in: Anxiety, depression, bereavement, grief and loss, baby loss, restrictive eating disorders, stress, ADD, childhood trauma and neglect, addiction, breakdown of relationships.
Availability from mid December on Monday's and Tuesday afternoons. Taking that first step to find a counsellor can sometimes be the hardest, but you’re here. Whether you are overwhelmed with your work/life balance and feeling like you have no time to stop, living with hurt, experienced a loss or feel ready to process past thoughts, behaviours or feelings. I can sit alongside you; not a ‘me and you’ but as equals and offer a non judgemental, confidential, and safe space to navigate these feelings and take that next 2nd step but at your pace as you feel ready.
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Start Something Counselling and Psychotherapy
MSc
Verified Verified
Brighton BN1
I am clinically experienced, having worked with a wide range of presentations within private practice, and in the voluntary sector with bereavement and substance dependence.
Welcome to Start Something Counselling and Psychotherapy. I understand that life can be challenging. Sometimes specific events and experiences create pain and emotional discomfort. For others, understanding why life feels uncomfortable is less obvious. My aim is to work with you to help you understand your mind, to enable to you become aware of how your experiences have influenced and impacted you.
I am clinically experienced, having worked with a wide range of presentations within private practice, and in the voluntary sector with bereavement and substance dependence.
Welcome to Start Something Counselling and Psychotherapy. I understand that life can be challenging. Sometimes specific events and experiences create pain and emotional discomfort. For others, understanding why life feels uncomfortable is less obvious. My aim is to work with you to help you understand your mind, to enable to you become aware of how your experiences have influenced and impacted you.
01273 099454 View 01273 099454
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Martine van den Berg
Counsellor, MBACP
Verified Verified
Brighton BN1
Could counselling be the support you need at the moment to improve some of the issues you are experiencing? If you are feeling alone, overwhelmed or confused about the pandemic, parenthood, work, a bereavement or other life experiences or relationships, I can offer Face to Face, zoom or phone counselling to explore this.
Could counselling be the support you need at the moment to improve some of the issues you are experiencing? If you are feeling alone, overwhelmed or confused about the pandemic, parenthood, work, a bereavement or other life experiences or relationships, I can offer Face to Face, zoom or phone counselling to explore this.
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Cormack & James Psychotherapy
Psychotherapist, MA, MUKCP
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Brighton BN1
I have worked extensively with families experiencing divorce and separation, family illness including terminal illness, bereavement - sudden deaths, suicide, homicide, and histories of abuse.
I primarily work with children and teenagers, with specialist training to work with children from the age of 3 years. I use play and arts alongside talking therapy approaches in my sessions. Key to successful psychotherapy is creating trusting relationships with individual clients, and parents and carers, to make sense of distress and challenging behaviours. I extensive experience in child mental health that I draw on to work with mental health difficulties and traumatic events. I'm EMDR trained which is a specific therapy for addressing trauma and other difficulties and have worked with many traumatised children and families.
I have worked extensively with families experiencing divorce and separation, family illness including terminal illness, bereavement - sudden deaths, suicide, homicide, and histories of abuse.
I primarily work with children and teenagers, with specialist training to work with children from the age of 3 years. I use play and arts alongside talking therapy approaches in my sessions. Key to successful psychotherapy is creating trusting relationships with individual clients, and parents and carers, to make sense of distress and challenging behaviours. I extensive experience in child mental health that I draw on to work with mental health difficulties and traumatic events. I'm EMDR trained which is a specific therapy for addressing trauma and other difficulties and have worked with many traumatised children and families.
01429 802943 View 01429 802943
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Deborah Warman-Freed
Psychotherapist, MA, MUKCP
Verified Verified
Brighton BN1  (Online Only)
Waitlist for new clients
Since you're reading this page then I imagine you’d like some aspects of your life to be different and you're wondering if I - or therapy - can help you. Your concerns may be about difficult feelings that feel overwhelming. You may be finding it a challenge to like yourself or perhaps you're struggling with relationships. Or you may be coming to terms with a trauma or a loss in your life and are looking to process your experience and see a way forward. We come to therapy for a myriad of reasons.
Since you're reading this page then I imagine you’d like some aspects of your life to be different and you're wondering if I - or therapy - can help you. Your concerns may be about difficult feelings that feel overwhelming. You may be finding it a challenge to like yourself or perhaps you're struggling with relationships. Or you may be coming to terms with a trauma or a loss in your life and are looking to process your experience and see a way forward. We come to therapy for a myriad of reasons.
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Lynne Mendelsohn
Counsellor, MBACP Snr. Accred
Verified Verified
Brighton BN1
I’m Lynne and I work with those who have experienced a loss of any kind; or those of you who are feeling that you have lost your way.
Have you recently been through a loss of any kind? Perhaps it was someone you were close to? Or maybe your health has taken a turn for the worse? Perhaps you have split up with your partner? Or are you trying to cope with an unexpected change but find yourself struggling? Are you asking yourself why is my life so hard? Why can’t things just get back to being “normal?” Loss of any kind and change of any kind can come out of the blue and can turn your life upside down. Are you needing to talk to someone about how you are really feeling?
I’m Lynne and I work with those who have experienced a loss of any kind; or those of you who are feeling that you have lost your way.
Have you recently been through a loss of any kind? Perhaps it was someone you were close to? Or maybe your health has taken a turn for the worse? Perhaps you have split up with your partner? Or are you trying to cope with an unexpected change but find yourself struggling? Are you asking yourself why is my life so hard? Why can’t things just get back to being “normal?” Loss of any kind and change of any kind can come out of the blue and can turn your life upside down. Are you needing to talk to someone about how you are really feeling?
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Carol Jane Pearson
Counsellor, MA, MNCPS Acc.
Verified Verified
Brighton BN1
Are you struggling with mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression, or are life events such as trauma, loss and bereavement, financial/ work or relationship problems affecting your day to day life? Counselling and psychotherapy can help to explore mental health problems and life challenges that might leave you feeling alone or stuck. If you are experiencing problems within a significant relationship, whether that is with a partner, parent or sibling, couples counselling can help to unravel the causes of conflict and misunderstandings that can get in the way of living life well.
Are you struggling with mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression, or are life events such as trauma, loss and bereavement, financial/ work or relationship problems affecting your day to day life? Counselling and psychotherapy can help to explore mental health problems and life challenges that might leave you feeling alone or stuck. If you are experiencing problems within a significant relationship, whether that is with a partner, parent or sibling, couples counselling can help to unravel the causes of conflict and misunderstandings that can get in the way of living life well.
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Ria Eames
Counsellor, MBACP
Verified Verified
Brighton BN1
Welcome to my page. I am a Registered BAP Person-Centred counsellor, offering long term or short term counselling to adults and young people from 10 years upwards. My commitment to clients is offering a confidential, non-judgmental therapeutic space exploring any difficulties or anxieties that are present - I work with a range of present issues such as anxiety, depression, grief and have experience in many settings such as bereavement/pre- bereavement, schools, and have a keen interest in Autism/ADHD, specifically women and girls.
Welcome to my page. I am a Registered BAP Person-Centred counsellor, offering long term or short term counselling to adults and young people from 10 years upwards. My commitment to clients is offering a confidential, non-judgmental therapeutic space exploring any difficulties or anxieties that are present - I work with a range of present issues such as anxiety, depression, grief and have experience in many settings such as bereavement/pre- bereavement, schools, and have a keen interest in Autism/ADHD, specifically women and girls.
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Bereavement Counsellors

How long does therapy take for grief?

There is no exact timeline for grief counseling. Some people may start to feel better after just a few sessions, while others may take months or longer to feel relief. Some specific approaches, including some types of CBT, may involve a set number of sessions, or therapy may be open-ended until the patient determines they are ready to wrap up. Just as there is no right or wrong way to grieve, there is no right or wrong way to seek therapy for grief.

When should you seek therapy for grief?

Many people mistakenly believe that their grief needs to be debilitating or all-encompassing to warrant therapy. This is not the case. While people who experience severe, prolonged grief—particularly those who are considering self-harm or engaging in unhealthy substance use—are especially likely to benefit from therapy, so too are people whose grief is less intense but still interfering with well-being or daily functioning. In practice, almost anyone struggling to process a loss could benefit from grief counseling.

Can grief be managed without therapy?

Oftentimes, yes. Grief is a near-universal part of being human, and many find that their grief, while profound, does not stop them from participating in day-to-day life and steadily eases over time without outside help. For others, however, the harsh pain of early grief persists for months or years or leaves them unable to function. This group is especially likely to benefit from seeing a therapist, who can guide them through their grief and help them reconnect with the world.

What happens if grief is left untreated?

Because grief does not in itself necessitate therapy, untreated grief will often resolve on its own. However, for some people—particularly those who would qualify for a diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder—untreated grief can be a source of seemingly endless pain or lead them to withdraw from the world. In such cases, treatment can be indispensable, as it can help an individual adapt to the loss and start living again.