Laurence Baretto De Souza
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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 worked for the Priory in Hove (more recently: 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
2021: I qualified as a Dance of Awareness Facilitator through the Brighton School for Embodied Therapy. The Dance of Awareness is a movement practice based on the Analytic cannon of Psychotherapy. It aims at exploring our early development and personality structure through movement to music. It also offer the space to experiment and change life long held ways of being that are counter-productive in a non-verbal way.
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 Post Graduate Diploma in Advance Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy 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 19 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
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred).
Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision.
Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.
All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Mindfulness practitioner and Teacher.
Dance of Awareness facilitator
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 - £75.00
Free initial telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Individual Therapy Face to Face, Walking and talking, and Online
£75 per session.
Concessions available for people earning less than £20,000 per year subject to availabilities.
You can pay by BACS transfer.
Couple Counselling:
£120 per a 60min session.
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 £150 for the full 8 week course to be paid prior to the first session.
Laurence's account details: Name: Laurence Baretto de Souza, sort code 60-83-71, account 11303786.
When paying for sessions, please use the date of the session you are paying for as reference.
When I work
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I work from Hove on Tuesdays and from Seaford on Wednesdays daytime, Thursdays afternoon and evening and Friday mornings.
Please contact me to arrange an appointment on 0044 7825678377
Further information
I am a French native speaker and am fluent in English.
Testimonials: "Working with Laurence over a six-month period was a profoundly transformative experience. Laurence gave me the close attention, understanding and care that I had stopped being able to give myself. As a consequence I have been able to identify what I needed to change in order to be able to do these things for myself." RS, 59, 2024
"When I first met Laurence my life felt incredibly bleak. A recent bereavement had caused an overwhelming sense of sadness and hopelessness that was affecting every aspect of my life. To even acknowledge that I needed help was to show a vulnerability that I had spent over 50 years avoiding. It is a credit to Laurence’s warmth, insight and humour that I found our sessions not only effective but genuinely enjoyable. For the first time in my life I feel comfortable in my own skin and I know that it’s ok not to be ok all of the time. Laurence has taught me how to recognise when I’m starting to feel overwhelmed and has helped me to find real life, practical strategies to even out my moods and energy levels."
"I worked with Laurence for 3-4 months to help me address issues of anxiety, rumination and catastrophising. I found her approach to be very warm and affirming, she helped me to explore the roots of my anxiety and develop new perspectives which significantly reduced my presenting issues. I can honestly say that I feel much calmer now in my mind and am not currently experiencing any issues with anxiety." PC
