"Our wounds are often the openings into
the best and most beautiful part of us"
~ David Richo
Integrative counselling
Integrative Counselling is a talking therapy that embraces the use of different therapeutic modalities.
Relational trauma often requires an integrated approach to address the multiple layers of its effects. This blended approach offers you a more personalized experience to counselling and therapy.
I offer individual counselling and therapy for Relational Trauma to adults (18+) in Brighton (East Sussex) and online.
Depending on your needs, services include short-term, Long-term, or Single Session Therapy (SST).
Counselling & Therapy
Counselling usually refers to short-term service, which can be between 6 to 18 weeks. Sessions are typically focused on the present issue you are facing rather than delving deeply into the past (except for where the information is relevant to your current difficulty). The focus is to support you in developing solutions to a current roadblock or offering emotional and psychological support through a difficult time.
Therapy is a medium to long-term process (usually 12 sessions +) focused on longstanding difficulties, thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that significantly impact your quality of life and relationships. Outcomes in therapy often are more ‘profound’ as they represent significant shifts in your inner experience, perspective, beliefs, feelings, sense of self and relationship with others.
I take an integrative approach to both short- and long-term therapy, incorporating trauma-informed practices and Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT). Rooted in attachment science, EFIT is a humanistic experiential model that supports emotional processing and fosters secure, meaningful relationships with oneself and others.
SST promoted by Dr Windy Dryden offers a one- time, focused session to address a particular issue, while remaining open to further support if needed.
While relational trauma therapy often benefits from long-term commitment, I believe you should have the freedom to decide how often you engage in therapy. That’s why I offer single sessions whenever you feel the need.
Benefits of
Counselling & Therapy
Integrative Counselling Therapy can help you to:
- Identify underlying causes that are responsible for your current difficulties.
- Find resolution through understanding and processing your emotions.
- Guide you to personal realization and self-discovery.
- Draw on your own inner resources.
- Find the clarity you are seeking.
- Feel more grounded, resilient, and experience an improved sense of well-being.
Arrange an appointment
Get in touch by using the contact form below. Together we can agree the best day and time for your first session. I will then send you a confirmation email with details alongside the initial working agreement.
Attend your first session
This is an initial assessment which has in itself therapeutic value. I will ask you what brings you to counselling, as well as a little bit about your background. Remember, this is an opportunity to establish if I am the right therapist for you.
Choose the best option for you
If we decide to continue to work together, we can agree on an amount of ongoing sessions or you can opt for Single Session Therapy. Should we find that I am not the right therapist for you, I can signpost as appropriate.
Book a Counselling Therapy session
“No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment… Now.”
~ Eckhart Tolle