Melanie Withers Senior Accred MBACP, BAPPS. UKCP.

Training, qualifications & experience

• BA Hons (University of Bristol)
• PGCE (University of Sussex)
• RSA Cert Counselling Skills (Northbrook College)
• PG Diploma in Counselling (University of Brighton)
• MA Counselling Psychology (University of Brighton and Sussex)
• MA Clinical Supervision (University of Sussex)
• PG Cert Applied Systemic Theory (UEL and Tavistock Clinic)
• Member On-line Therapy Institute
• PG Cert CBT (Westminster Pastoral Foundation)
• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Guild of Psychotherapists)
• Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (Anna Freud centre).

I have worked in many different settings over the years I have been in practice including educational, NHS and charitable agencies.  I was for many years the course convenor of the PG Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling at the University of Sussex, have worked at the University of Westminster on the Mind-Body programme and most recently was part of the Supervision Masters teaching team at the University of Surrey.  I continue with a small teaching role at the University of Brighton.

Other areas of counselling I deal with

Online Therapy
Affairs and Betrayal

Further information

As a qualified teacher and experienced trainer, university lecturer and consultant, I am also interested in management and organisational dynamics. 

I am the founder and Clinical Director of the Rock Clinic, a charity providing counselling and psychotherapy in Brighton  for over 27 years, I am experienced and well-placed to advise on similar projects. 

I recently retired as Director of the University of Sussex Counselling service which additionally has given me the experience of working to provide therapy within the organisational framework of a large institution.

My supervision and consultancy work sits alongside my clinical casework with individual clients and couples.