Anxiety Counselling in Falmer

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Carhan Raphael
Counsellor, MBACP
Serves Area
I have been a counsellor since 2012, both in private practise and working for the YPC, Brighton, AGE UK and the YMCA/Wellbeing Service. As a humanistic/intergative therapist, I believe that you are the expert on yourself and 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 may have arisen. Counselling can be for anyone who feels lost, sad, lonely, confused.
I have been a counsellor since 2012, both in private practise and working for the YPC, Brighton, AGE UK and the YMCA/Wellbeing Service. As a humanistic/intergative therapist, I believe that you are the expert on yourself and 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 may have arisen. Counselling can be for anyone who feels lost, sad, lonely, confused.
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Steve Broome
Counsellor, MBACP
Serves Area
These include issues such as depression, anxiety, panic, trauma responses, bereavement, and recovery from substance misuse.
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 have worked with clients for over a decade and 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.
These include issues such as depression, anxiety, panic, trauma responses, bereavement, and recovery from substance misuse.
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 have worked with clients for over a decade and 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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With over eight years of running my own private practice, I offer a warm, supportive and direct approach where you can explore what’s holding you back and begin to reconnect with your own strength. People who work with me often describe feeling more grounded, secure and more compassionate towards themselves. Clients also tend to gain new perspectives that help them move forward with clarity. My aim is to create a space where you can comfortably share what you are struggling with and where you feel genuinely supported, understood and begin to make changes that feel empowering and sustainable.
With over eight years of running my own private practice, I offer a warm, supportive and direct approach where you can explore what’s holding you back and begin to reconnect with your own strength. People who work with me often describe feeling more grounded, secure and more compassionate towards themselves. Clients also tend to gain new perspectives that help them move forward with clarity. My aim is to create a space where you can comfortably share what you are struggling with and where you feel genuinely supported, understood and begin to make changes that feel empowering and sustainable.
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Chloe DaCosta
Psychotherapist, MSc, MBACP
Serves Area
Anxiety & Depression: general low mood, panic, and worry.
Feeling stuck, overwhelmed or that your relationships aren't working out? I help others uncover the hidden patterns that shape their lives. I practice from two locations. Specialising in identity, trauma, and relationship struggles, I help you understand the 'why' behind your feelings to create lasting, meaningful change. I'm a MSc-qualified psychodynamic therapist with experience across the NHS and university sectors. My work is rooted in the belief that our past experiences and unconscious mind profoundly influence how we navigate the world
Anxiety & Depression: general low mood, panic, and worry.
Feeling stuck, overwhelmed or that your relationships aren't working out? I help others uncover the hidden patterns that shape their lives. I practice from two locations. Specialising in identity, trauma, and relationship struggles, I help you understand the 'why' behind your feelings to create lasting, meaningful change. I'm a MSc-qualified psychodynamic therapist with experience across the NHS and university sectors. My work is rooted in the belief that our past experiences and unconscious mind profoundly influence how we navigate the world
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Faustina Walter
Counsellor, MA, MBACP Accred
1 Endorsed
Serves Area
All of us can face confusing and difficult times in our lives and feel overwhelmed with feelings such as anxiety, stress and depression.
I am a BACP Accredited Humanistic Psychotherapeutic Counsellor. I work with adults, young people and children. I have 8 years experience as senior therapist and a designated safeguarding lead for a therapeutic service within a large charity in West Sussex. I now have my own private practice in Lewes, East Sussex. I also offer video and phone counselling.
All of us can face confusing and difficult times in our lives and feel overwhelmed with feelings such as anxiety, stress and depression.
I am a BACP Accredited Humanistic Psychotherapeutic Counsellor. I work with adults, young people and children. I have 8 years experience as senior therapist and a designated safeguarding lead for a therapeutic service within a large charity in West Sussex. I now have my own private practice in Lewes, East Sussex. I also offer video and phone counselling.
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Lisa Dando
Psychotherapist, MBACP
Serves Area
When things don’t feel right, we can often feel depressed, anxious or experience panic attacks.
How does it work? I offer a safe and supportive space on a regular basis allowing you the time to explore some of the things that are causing you distress and/or worry. We all live busy lives, and it can often be hard to find the time to STOP and reflect. I can help you identify the issues that can sometimes make us feel stuck and unable to move on in life.
When things don’t feel right, we can often feel depressed, anxious or experience panic attacks.
How does it work? I offer a safe and supportive space on a regular basis allowing you the time to explore some of the things that are causing you distress and/or worry. We all live busy lives, and it can often be hard to find the time to STOP and reflect. I can help you identify the issues that can sometimes make us feel stuck and unable to move on in life.
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Fiona Macbeth
Psychotherapist, MSc, MBACP Accred
Serves Area
I can help you with whatever is distressing you in your life whether it be anxiety fuelled by the current circumstances or something longer standing
I am an integrative psychotherapist, which means I use a range of approaches depending on the client's requirements. This more flexible approach means the client is more likely to get what works best for him, not just the counsellor. It usually means looking of what is happening currently, and how this connects with the past and learnt behaviours.
I can help you with whatever is distressing you in your life whether it be anxiety fuelled by the current circumstances or something longer standing
I am an integrative psychotherapist, which means I use a range of approaches depending on the client's requirements. This more flexible approach means the client is more likely to get what works best for him, not just the counsellor. It usually means looking of what is happening currently, and how this connects with the past and learnt behaviours.
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Caroline Clarke
Psychotherapist, MSc, MUKCP
Serves Area
Therapy for family estrangement, relationship difficulties and anxiety (general, social, health).
I offer weekly counselling or psychotherapy sessions to individual adults or pairs of adults at my office next to Preston Park station in Brighton & Hove and also to individual adults online.
Therapy for family estrangement, relationship difficulties and anxiety (general, social, health).
I offer weekly counselling or psychotherapy sessions to individual adults or pairs of adults at my office next to Preston Park station in Brighton & Hove and also to individual adults online.
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Sarah Jack
Counsellor, MBACP
Online Only
I've been counselling since 1989, and have extensive experience of working with sexual abuse and trauma, parenting and attachment difficulties, identity and relationship issues, depression and anxiety, bereavement and loss.
Solution Focused conversations do not require us to delve into the past, so the number of sessions is typically fewer than with other forms of therapy and therefore provides good value for money. You will also learn some helpful techniques which you can apply to all aspects of your life, without the ongoing need of a therapist.
I've been counselling since 1989, and have extensive experience of working with sexual abuse and trauma, parenting and attachment difficulties, identity and relationship issues, depression and anxiety, bereavement and loss.
Solution Focused conversations do not require us to delve into the past, so the number of sessions is typically fewer than with other forms of therapy and therefore provides good value for money. You will also learn some helpful techniques which you can apply to all aspects of your life, without the ongoing need of a therapist.
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Netti Buswell Therapy
Counsellor, MBACP
Online Only
Working with me would mean being able to speak freely in a safe, non-judgemental environment. Sometimes it's difficult to speak to friends or family so talking therapy could be the right choice for you. I offer you an empathetic and respectful space. My work with you would be based on developing a therapeutic, supportive and healthy relationship, giving you the opportunity to explore your issues, find inner strength and confidence, reach your goals and find ways to experience a much more satisfying, healthier and meaningful life in the future.
Working with me would mean being able to speak freely in a safe, non-judgemental environment. Sometimes it's difficult to speak to friends or family so talking therapy could be the right choice for you. I offer you an empathetic and respectful space. My work with you would be based on developing a therapeutic, supportive and healthy relationship, giving you the opportunity to explore your issues, find inner strength and confidence, reach your goals and find ways to experience a much more satisfying, healthier and meaningful life in the future.
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Dr Anna Chiara Sicilia
Psychologist, PsychD, HCPC - Clin. Psych.
Serves Area
I am Anna, a Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Supervisor and Consultant for the TV, Media and Radio. I have worked in the NHS in mental health services since 2014, specialising in supporting working age adults presenting with a range of difficulties. I am able to support both individuals and couples. I specialise in supporting people from the LGBTQI+ community and creative professionals. As a person from the LGBTQI+ community, with a background of having grown up in the fashion world in Italy, I have an ability to create a non-judgmental space where safe exploration of different aspects of your identity is encouraged.
I am Anna, a Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Supervisor and Consultant for the TV, Media and Radio. I have worked in the NHS in mental health services since 2014, specialising in supporting working age adults presenting with a range of difficulties. I am able to support both individuals and couples. I specialise in supporting people from the LGBTQI+ community and creative professionals. As a person from the LGBTQI+ community, with a background of having grown up in the fashion world in Italy, I have an ability to create a non-judgmental space where safe exploration of different aspects of your identity is encouraged.
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Start Something Counselling and Psychotherapy
Verified Verified
Serves Area
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.
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.
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Isabel Trevelyan Bostwick
Psychotherapist, MSc, MUKCP
Serves Area
I have a broad range of experience, working with a range of issues, including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, bereavement, sexuality, and relationship difficulties.
To begin counselling can be a life-changing decision. You may want to address thoughts and feelings or specific challenges that can be hard to speak to others about, or perhaps made a decision to address the impact of past trauma, loss or shame. By sharing your story and emotional journey within the therapeutic space, it can be heard in a new way, as though for the first time. In this way, different narratives can be explored, allowing you to take greater ownership of your life and your future.
I have a broad range of experience, working with a range of issues, including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, bereavement, sexuality, and relationship difficulties.
To begin counselling can be a life-changing decision. You may want to address thoughts and feelings or specific challenges that can be hard to speak to others about, or perhaps made a decision to address the impact of past trauma, loss or shame. By sharing your story and emotional journey within the therapeutic space, it can be heard in a new way, as though for the first time. In this way, different narratives can be explored, allowing you to take greater ownership of your life and your future.
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Clair Morrow
Counsellor, MA, MNCPS Acc.
Serves Area
I offer expertise and a confidential relationship where you can feel safe, supported and understood without fear of judgment.
I work with couples and individuals who feel disconnected, unheard, or stuck in painful emotional and relational patterns — often at the point of breakdown. As an Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist, I help couples rebuild trust, improve communication, and rekindle intimacy. With individuals, issues include unresolved childhood experiences, emotional challenges, problematic attachment styles, and relationship dynamics that may be holding them back. My approach is warm, inclusive, and grounded in deep empathy.
I offer expertise and a confidential relationship where you can feel safe, supported and understood without fear of judgment.
I work with couples and individuals who feel disconnected, unheard, or stuck in painful emotional and relational patterns — often at the point of breakdown. As an Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist, I help couples rebuild trust, improve communication, and rekindle intimacy. With individuals, issues include unresolved childhood experiences, emotional challenges, problematic attachment styles, and relationship dynamics that may be holding them back. My approach is warm, inclusive, and grounded in deep empathy.
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Jen Beaver
Counsellor, MNCPS Acc.
Serves Area
I work with clients who experience anxiety, depression, are navigating perinatal and parenthood, vegans and climate-related anxiety.
Jen’s ethos is to support clients’ journey to mental and emotional wellness. Jen works collaboratively with clients to enable them to express the full range of their emotions and to nurture healthy relationships with themselves, with others and with our planet.
I work with clients who experience anxiety, depression, are navigating perinatal and parenthood, vegans and climate-related anxiety.
Jen’s ethos is to support clients’ journey to mental and emotional wellness. Jen works collaboratively with clients to enable them to express the full range of their emotions and to nurture healthy relationships with themselves, with others and with our planet.
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Roger Eustance
Counsellor, MBACP
Serves Area
I also support those affected by crime, including families and individuals in distress, working with ex-offenders, anxiety affecting relationships or work, and the wider emotional impacts of trauma and loss.
At times, life can feel overwhelming to face alone, yet too difficult to share with those close to us. You may be facing new challenges, feeling stuck with a long-held concern, or adjusting to sudden change or loss. Whatever you are experiencing, sharing your story in a safe, supportive and confidential space can bring clarity, relief and deeper understanding. I offer a compassionate, non-judgemental therapeutic relationship where you are accepted, respected and heard. Grounded in trust, my role is as a fellow traveller, supporting you to explore and reconnect with the answers within you as your need for true acceptance is met.
I also support those affected by crime, including families and individuals in distress, working with ex-offenders, anxiety affecting relationships or work, and the wider emotional impacts of trauma and loss.
At times, life can feel overwhelming to face alone, yet too difficult to share with those close to us. You may be facing new challenges, feeling stuck with a long-held concern, or adjusting to sudden change or loss. Whatever you are experiencing, sharing your story in a safe, supportive and confidential space can bring clarity, relief and deeper understanding. I offer a compassionate, non-judgemental therapeutic relationship where you are accepted, respected and heard. Grounded in trust, my role is as a fellow traveller, supporting you to explore and reconnect with the answers within you as your need for true acceptance is met.
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Lucy Crean
Counsellor, MBACP
Serves Area
Are you looking for help and support with problems that feel hard to overcome? I am an experienced therapist, and offer a warm, welcoming and calm space to explore your difficulties and facilitate positive change. Perhaps your life taken a turn or direction you are not happy with, or you might have tough choices to make. Maybe you can’t quite put your finger on why you feel unhappy or dissatisfied, but you know that something’s not right. Whatever has brought you to therapy, I am here to help.
Are you looking for help and support with problems that feel hard to overcome? I am an experienced therapist, and offer a warm, welcoming and calm space to explore your difficulties and facilitate positive change. Perhaps your life taken a turn or direction you are not happy with, or you might have tough choices to make. Maybe you can’t quite put your finger on why you feel unhappy or dissatisfied, but you know that something’s not right. Whatever has brought you to therapy, I am here to help.
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Paul Evans
Psychotherapist, MBACP
Serves Area
Life can feel tough - living with worry, sadness, self-doubt or relationship stress.
Your experiences, both past and present, would be the focus of our work. Using a psychodynamic approach, we can examine how relationships and events have influenced the way you feel and behave. Together, we will identify patterns and pinpoint aspects you would like to understand or change - using evidence-based approaches adapted to work at your pace.
Life can feel tough - living with worry, sadness, self-doubt or relationship stress.
Your experiences, both past and present, would be the focus of our work. Using a psychodynamic approach, we can examine how relationships and events have influenced the way you feel and behave. Together, we will identify patterns and pinpoint aspects you would like to understand or change - using evidence-based approaches adapted to work at your pace.
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Clara Fantoni
Psychotherapist, MA, UKCP Trainee
2 Endorsed
Serves Area
-Bereavement -Minority Stress -Neurodiversity -Trauma -Living with cancer and chronic illness -PTSD and C-PTSD -Childhood Trauma/ Attachment Issues -Trans, Non-Binary, Intersex clients -LGBTQIA+ clients -GSRD -Depression and low mood - Anxiety -Low self-esteem -Relationship issues, sexuality and intimacy issues -OCD
Hello! I’m Clara (they/them), I am an Integrative Psychotherapist and trainee Art Therapist offering talking Psychotherapy and Art Psychotherapy as a trainee. I work with adults, young adults and groups. I work with all clients and have experience across a diverse range of mental heath settings such as the NHS in acute services working with Psychosis and complex needs. I have further experience as a therapist at Macmillan and at Spectra with TNBI youth. I work at the Sussex Gender Service as a freelance Reflective Practice Facilitator.
-Bereavement -Minority Stress -Neurodiversity -Trauma -Living with cancer and chronic illness -PTSD and C-PTSD -Childhood Trauma/ Attachment Issues -Trans, Non-Binary, Intersex clients -LGBTQIA+ clients -GSRD -Depression and low mood - Anxiety -Low self-esteem -Relationship issues, sexuality and intimacy issues -OCD
Hello! I’m Clara (they/them), I am an Integrative Psychotherapist and trainee Art Therapist offering talking Psychotherapy and Art Psychotherapy as a trainee. I work with adults, young adults and groups. I work with all clients and have experience across a diverse range of mental heath settings such as the NHS in acute services working with Psychosis and complex needs. I have further experience as a therapist at Macmillan and at Spectra with TNBI youth. I work at the Sussex Gender Service as a freelance Reflective Practice Facilitator.
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Valley Therapy
Psychotherapist, MBACP Accred
I provide safe and confidential therapy services to adults and adolescents (16+) for a range of presenting difficulties, from depression and anxiety, including OCD, to childhood trauma, including sexual abuse and complex PTSD.
I draw from a range of evidence-based therapeutic models based on current and advanced interventions that I can personalise according to the unique needs of my clients.
I provide safe and confidential therapy services to adults and adolescents (16+) for a range of presenting difficulties, from depression and anxiety, including OCD, to childhood trauma, including sexual abuse and complex PTSD.
I draw from a range of evidence-based therapeutic models based on current and advanced interventions that I can personalise according to the unique needs of my clients.
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Anxiety Counsellors
When should I seek treatment for anxiety?
Everyone feels anxious at times, but when anxiety causes disruption to your daily life, it may be time to seek help. Such disruption can be mental, physical, or both: having fear dominate your thoughts, avoiding situations or objects that bring on feelings of anxiety, or experiencing shortness of breath, sweating, dizziness, or panic attacks. When these symptoms are recurrent and distressing, it may be time to talk to someone.

What are the most common types of treatment for anxiety?
Talk therapy, particularly cognitive behavioural therapy, is the most common treatment for anxiety. Studies have shown it is equally effective as medication. Other forms of therapy are popular, depending on a patient’s experience. Exposure therapy, for instance, can be useful for people dealing with fears and phobias, or who have experienced traumatic events. Dialectical Behavioural Therapy may be useful for patients who need help with emotion regulation. Anxiolytic medications, like benzodiazepines, can also help with calming a person enough to focus on the skills they’ve learned, and physical exercise has been shown to help symptoms of anxiety across the board.

How long does therapy for anxiety take to work?
The amount of time needed to alleviate symptoms depends on the severity of a person’s condition. Some therapies may take 5-20 weekly sessions to show results. Anti-depressant medications typically take two to four weeks before a benefit is felt. Anti-anxiety medications are felt typically within 20-30 minutes. Medications are best used to offer a patient a better headspace in which to work on techniques learned in therapy. Exercise, improved sleep habits, and meditation are effective, but takes weeks or months to show results.

How effective is treatment for anxiety?
Treatment for anxiety has been shown to be moderately to highly effective, according to a large body of psychology studies and analyses. For some people, treatment using CBT or exposure therapy alone is effective. Others respond best to a combination of medication and therapy.