Sam Jahara

Sam Jahara Palmeira Practice 62 Palmeira Avenue Hove East Sussex BN3 3GF View map
tel: 07790 445 404 web: www.livingatchoice.co.uk Click here to Email me

Profile

I am a counsellor seeing clients in Brighton & Hove. My approach to counselling is called humanistic-integrative, meaning that I draw on different methods within the humanistic framework such as Gestalt, Existential and Person-Centred Therapy. In practicing humanistically, I support and facilitate your process whilst honouring your inner wisdom. I walk alongside you and work with you to explore and gently challenge your choices, beliefs and values so that you can identify your own truth.

I have a background of 15 years experience in the field of therapy, group work and applied psychology and have been formally trained in both humanistic-integrative counselling and creative arts therapy. I am experienced in working with a wide range of clients dealing with short-term challenges through to deep-rooted issues requiring longer term therapy.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

My academic training includes a higher education diploma in counselling from The Australian College of Applied Psychology in Brisbane, Australia, and more recently a Bachelors of Arts in Humanistic Counselling from The University of Chichester.

Prior to this I completed a three-year post graduate qualification in creative arts therapy in Berlin, Germany which I put into practice whilst living in Australia in setting up and running a series of creative arts therapy groups for women, and in working for ‘Hands on Arts’, a children’s arts centre, where I coordinated art workshops for children and teenagers. In the UK I have worked as a counsellor for the ‘As You Are Centre’, a well established counselling centre in West Sussex and I am currently running a private practice in Brighton & Hove in East Sussex.

As well as my academic background, I have been specifically trained in the field of human relationships and sexuality and have experience of working with individuals in exploring issues of gender and sexual identity.

I was raised in Brazil and grew up living in the USA, England and The Netherlands and I am fluent in English, German and Portuguese. I welcome and feel comfortable working with clients from any cultural background and have a particular interest in working with those struggling with cultural identity and feelings of being uprooted or not belonging.