Women's Issues Counselling in Brighton

Hello I’m Selene. I have 20 years of experience as a counsellor. I am a warm and open-minded person with a good sense of humour. I offer a welcoming and confidential space where we can together create an empowering therapeutic relationship. I believe you are an expert in your own life and my role is to support and challenge you reconnecting with yourself and your strengths. Counselling is an opportunity to give yourself the time and space to imagine who you want to be. Sometimes fear and shame make us stuck and disconnected from others and not able to ask for what we want. Therapy can help you free yourself and open connection.

Life can feel hard - even overwhelming at times - but it doesn't have to stay that way. Often, people find talking to someone who understands can help to shift difficult feelings and allow them to fully engage with life once more. Perhaps you feel stuck? Anxious, angry, depressed, or in emotional pain? Maybe you notice your relationships are unsatisfactory, they always follow the same pattern? Or maybe life, with all its demands, is just grinding you down? Spending some time exploring these issues with a trained counsellor can offer insight, clarity and relief.

Are you struggling with a sexual or relationship issue? Are you needing some extra support? My work focusses a lot on battling shame and empowering people to find solutions that work for them. I do not believe in a one size fits all approach and work with clients to normalise their experiences on an individual level as well as considering the greater context and how society plays a role in these presenting issues. I am an LGBTQIA+ ally and work with GSRD clients. I am knowledgeable and welcome polyamorous and consensual non-monogamous relationships as well as being trans, non mainstream orientations and kink friendly.

I offer a simple, practical approach that will help you improve your wellbeing. ​We all struggle in our lives, but there are ways of struggling less and feeling-good more. The 'talk-explore-change' approach is for everyone, and it can give you a chance to understand yourself and your problems, as well as to regulate your emotions, you thoughts and your behaviours. In 3 simple steps you can offload (experience relief and calmness), understand yourself (gain awareness and clarity), adjust what doesn't work (move forward).

I feel passionate about helping other women thrive. So, I typically work with women, who are looking to effect change in their lives. Over the years, I have worked with thousands of women, who felt stuck, with little or no control over their personal or professional lives. They reported feeling hopeless, frustrated, and tired of the status quo. Some, saw their identity no longer aligning to their values, or their purpose threatened by the natural order of things like children leaving, unworkable relationships, loss of loved ones, stress at work, or hormonal changes and even traumatic experiences that left them wondering...What Next?

I help women overcome trauma, domestic abuse and sexual abuse, so that they can fall in love with themselves and with their ideal partner, reclaim their confidence, and never have to endure harmful relationships ever again. Are you struggling with flashbacks or nightmares, feeling embarrassed about someone mistreating you or having moments when you suddenly feel numb, angry or tearful out of nowhere? If yes, then therapy will help you stabilise your mood, feel safe again and rediscover pleasure in daily life. Even if you have had therapy before, specialist support will get you from where you are to where you want to be.

My name is Kirstie Eames and I’m here to help and support you to gain the skills you need to make a positive move forward. I offer one to one Integrative and Trauma counselling in a safe, confidential, Empathetic, non-judgemental space for you to be able to promote healing, build self-awareness, build self-esteem and to be heard to help you move forward in your life. As a trauma informed therapist I can provide a grounded presence where you can begin to explore your trauma while feeling safe, listened to, and held. I also work with more generalised mental health such as depression, all anxiety, PD's, behaviour disorders and OCD

Are you struggling with relationship issues? Are you experiencing anxiety, depression, stress, panic attacks, emotional pain, challenging life transitions, workplace conflict, or loss? Do you feel stuck? Do you have unresolved family or boundary issues? Do you want to bring about positive change by identifying the tensions and negative thought patterns holding you back, as well as identifying any unhelpful ways of relating to oneself, others and the rest of the world? You are not alone - Talking to a psychotherapeutic counsellor can help.

Are you feeling stuck on a particular issue? Are you procrastinating, putting off what you need or want to do and want to get moving? Are you looking for some focused time to work out your next steps with someone objectively?

‘Nobody has the power to take two steps together. You can take only take one step at a time’ -Ohso. It takes courage to face the discomfort and uncertainty we are left with from our past. I believe we all hold the ability to heal form life’s experiences. By working with both the mind and body together, we increase awareness of what we are holding onto from our past that may leave us feeling distressed, isolated or stuck. Therapy can help identify and release emotional blocks or unhelpful patterns, so you can move forward in a new direction towards positive change. Sessions can be ongoing, short term, or a single session as required.

When we are facing difficulties in life, a compassionate, caring and confidential space to talk can be so helpful. I offer clients a safe and non-judgemental space for you to be discuss whatever is troubling you. You may be feeling anxious or depressed, especially due to Covid-19, and need some support. You may be feeling overwhelmed and need to find a sense of clarity about what you are thinking and how you are feeling. Counselling offers a regular space for you to explore and untangle what's troubling you so you can make sense of it and make any changes that are necessary for you to move forward with your life.

I work relationally to help clients understand how past experiences and relationships might be impacting current difficulties. Therapy can help make changes to these often hard-wired patterns and facilitate the development of more healthy fulfilling relationships. By building a relationship based upon trust, empathy and acceptance therapy enables a greater awareness and understanding of how and where difficulties have arisen and provides the conditions for change to occur.

At times we can struggle with our circumstances and relationships. This may result in feeling confused and overwhelmed. Traumas past and present impact upon our quality of life and coping mechanisms can fail or become unhelpful. Counselling allows some time and space to focus on your issues and it can provide insight and clarity. It's an opportunity for honest open communication, without the fear of judgement and negative repercussions. This self-exploration tends to aid growth and healing, ultimately resulting in change and acceptance. I support you rather than diagnose or label, being with you through life's challenges.

Hi thank you for viewing my profile and I look forward to helping you. I have over 28 years experience of working in the NHS, Social Care, Charity and Corporate Sectors. My goal is to help and support you if you’re experiencing stress, distress, emotional pain or trauma or other issues in relationships, career, retirement, health etc. Having experienced numerous changes in my own life, I can relate to the experiences of others. I offer an approach that is tried and tested. My style, is open, warm, relaxed and non-judgemental. My goal is to help facilitate change and support you. Please do not hesitate to contact me for support.

My name is Claudia (she/her), and I work in a gentle manner that aims to make the counselling room into a welcoming space for exploring all feelings. I am genuinely interested in the broad range of human experience, and my ambition is to support clients as they process their story and feelings at a pace that is comfortable for them. If they find themselves stuck or confused, I use active, compassionate listening methods to help them onwards.

Support for negative relationship patterns, jealousy, insecurity, anger, anxious or avoidant attachment behaviour, infidelity, divorce, the impact of parenting, or how you were parented, on your current relationships. I help individuals to process their past, improve their relationships and move forward in life. At present, I work in central Brighton and online with clients across the UK.

My practice as an Integrative Transpersonal Therapist is shaped by my experience working on social justice and environmental change. I see the connection between personal wellbeing and the wider systems we are all part of. I balance warm receptiveness with rigorous reflection and gentle challenge, drawing on my experience integrating a range of therapeutic approaches. I also bring a deep understanding of living life across cultures. Whatever struggle or yearning may bring you here, therapy is a space where you will be deeply listened to, resourced and supported, as you make your journey towards more ease and fulfilment.

Beginning counselling and psychotherapy can be daunting, but I aim to offer a safe and holding environment within which you can begin to talk about and work through issues that you are struggling with. I work from the premise that we all have unconscious thoughts that can live with us for years, can influence our behaviour and can impact on our ability to form or maintain relationships. Through our work together I hope that by bringing some of these thoughts and feelings into consciousness you can begin to gain insight into the areas of your life which are causing you pain.