About me
Welcome - I'm Sam De Gruchy, a BACP-registered therapist practising in Brighton and online.
If you’re carrying something heavy, feeling overwhelmed, depressed, stuck, or wondering what your life is really for - therapy can be a courageous step in the direction of meaningful change. Therapy is a sacred space where you are fully welcome to arrive just as you are, in a relationship in which you can be genuinely seen and heard. My commitment to you is to support you growing your capacity to navigate a life that is meaningful to you, alongside an authentic and self-compassionate understanding of yourself.
What I can support you with:
Past wounds and experiences: including but not limited to trauma. Digesting and let go of the past to bring more genuine peace in the present. Softening and easing those parts currently working overtime to protect you.
Anxiety, anger and overwhelm: increasing capacity to regulate anxiety or anger, as well as tending to and processing the root cause.
Relationships: work through underlying patterns in current or past relationships - romantic, family, professional or friendships - to bring about meaningful changes and new possibilities.
Direction, identity and meaning: working with feeling lost or asking bigger existential questions - seeking understanding and expressing authenticity in yourself and the world around you. Feeling equipped to live a meaningful life with clarity.
I see adults in weekly one-to-one therapy, in Brighton and online. I welcome and work with people of all ethnicities, age, sexualities, genders, relationships neurodiversity, religion and lived experience.
Way of Working
What is Integrative therapy? It is an adaptable and dynamic approach, integrating several therapeutic modalities. It is rooted in our collective humanness, tailored to your personal experience. It also allows us to bring together and tend to all parts of you, cultivating a growing sense of clarity and wholeness.
What does it mean to work ‘relationally?’ It’s embracing that therapy takes place in relationship between two real people. A genuine relationship creates the space for the real you to continue to emerge and be seen, and the therapeutic alliance between therapist and client is the safe container where our work takes place.
What is Person-centred therapy? We trust your individual process and respect your autonomy. I believe each person has the right to self-determine their own process and life choices, and my practice is rooted in this principle. We recognise that although engaging with therapeutic support, you remain the expert of your own experience. This empowers you to take the work out and integrate into your life outside and beyond therapy.
No two therapeutic journeys are the same. Through building a genuine therapeutic alliance between us, I hold a compassionate and beneficial space for your personal process to unfold.
Next steps
If you are interested in beginning work together, book in a free 20-minute video call introduction - either through Counselling Directory or you can contact me via email/my website (as preferred). This is a relaxed and open opportunity to connect and get a sense of what working together might be like - I will create space to share/ask as much or as little as feels right for you.
A warm welcome awaits, I very much look forward to hearing from you.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Advanced Diploma in Counselling - Heartwood Counselling and Psychotherapy (accredited by National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society)
- MSc Psychological Studies (with Merit) -University of Glasgow (accredited by British Psychological Society)
- Foundation Certificate in Psychotherapy & Counselling - Regent's University
- BA History (with Hons) - University of Exeter
- Registered member of the BACP - British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists
- Affiliate member of IPT - Institute of Psychedelic Therapy
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.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£75.00 per session
Additional information
Payment via cash or Bank transfer, as preferred, on same day as each session (prior to or immediately following).
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Further information
Please get in touch to request an initial free 20 minute video consultation. This is a gentle commitment free opportunity for us to connect and discuss working together. There’s no need to prepare in advance, or any expectation that you share any less/more than you feel comfortable.
60 minutes sessions are typically held weekly. Longer sessions are also an option subject to availability.
Cancellation: kindly note I operate a 48 hour cancellation policy
