Ms L Baretto De Souza Integrative Psychotherapy MBACP, Mindfulness Teacher
About me
As an Integrative Therapist, I use different modalities to fit my clients needs, learning curves and communications styles, personality and state of mind. I also adapt to fit my clients ‘physical health, integrating body and mind work within the process of change.
I have been working as a Psychotherapist since 2004 and I am a Mindfulness Practitioner. As well as running my private practice, I work for the Priory in Hove (now Elysium Healthcare) within both the Cognitive Behavioural team and within the Addiction Treatment team. I have helped people through a wide range of issues using a variety of tools and methods to fit each person's ways of being. I believe that we are all different and also that we all have a lot in common.
I offer:
1 to 1 counselling
Solution focussed
Short-term counselling
Medium to long term counselling
1 to 1 walking counselling
Couple counselling with 1 therapist or 2 therapists
Family counselling
Group therapy
1 to 1 supervision
group supervision
Training, qualifications & experience
2016: I am a qualified Mindfulness Teacher,
Mindfulness-based Approaches Foundation
Sussex Mindfulmess Centre. This Training enables me to deliver 8 weeks MBCT and MBSR courses.
2009 Advance Diploma in Integrative Counselling at Northbrook College.
This course integrates Humanistic, Psychodynamic, Jungian, CBT, Transactional Analysis and Gestalt theories and practices.
I have been working as Counsellor/Psychotherapist for over 15 years. During this time I have accumulated over 1000 hours of 1 to 1 of counselling and I have facilitated 800 therapeutic groups.
Member organisations

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Mindfulness practitioner and Teacher.
Dance of Awareness facilitator
Therapies offered
Fees
Our Services and fees
Individual Counselling:
Available from all our locations
Fees are worked out on a sliding scale depending on earnings:
from £50 per session, concessions may be available for people earning less than £15k/annum.
Sliding scale:
basic fee then add £0.75 every £1000/annum earned above £15K.
Eg:
£50.75 for people earning £16k/annum
£51.50 for people earning £17k/ annum.
Maximum fee is £155 for individual for people earning over £155,000/annum.
Any payments over your individual fee will be used to provide concessions for people earning less than £15k/annum.
Couple Counselling:
Available from all locations
from £75 depending on your combined earnings as a couple:
sliding scale
£75 for non tax payers and for couples earning up to £25k/annum.
Then add £0.75 every £1000/annum earned above £25K.
Eg:
£75.75 for couples earning £26k/annum
£76.50 for couples earning £27k/annum
Maximum fee is £150 for individual. Any payments over your individual fee will be used to provide concessions for couples earning less than £25k/annum.
Walking Counselling priced as individual therapy: Available from Friston Forest
Family Therapy:
Please contact us to discuss fees.
Mindfulness 8 week course (MBCT)
Cost: As this will be the first group offered at Revitalise there is an introductory fee of £120 for the full 8 week course to be paid prior to the first session.
Further information
I am a French native speaker and am fluent in English.