About me
Hi I'm Sue (she/her)
Thanks for visiting my profile.
I am an experienced relational psychotherapist, offering face to face sessions in Brighton, and online sessions for clients from around the UK and internationally.
Over the years of my practice I have developed a therapeutic approach which blends multiple perspectives. I work along side you, swimming in the same waters. Working to make something feel easy between us, so you can find freedom to talk about what's really troubling you.
Working collaboratively, open and down to earth, I will welcome you, as you, in all your hopes, frustrations, complexities and contradictions. We will work with what needs to be said, at the pace it needs to be said - sometimes in a rush, sometimes shy - and we will notice how it feels to say it.
My expertise is in holding the balance between bringing empathy and understanding to the distress which has driven you to reach out, whilst also holding space for questions which often queue up behind our distress.
If you are interested in what has made you uniquely you, how you might have become disconnected from yourself, ways you diminish yourself, how you rise and grow into the challenges life hands you, how you live more truthfully, more in-step with yourself I'd love to hear from you.
In my experience this is the work which enables change. Not in a pathologising treatment model, nor a solution based approach. But in tending to what really matters to you, giving space to all the feelings which are stirred in that. And in responding with tenderness, acceptance and hope.
Training, qualifications & experience
Experience:
My career started as a social worker in the Criminal Justice System. As a therapist I have experience working in the charity sector, supporting single parents and people living with HIV. In private practice I have worked with people from diverse backgrounds, who have come to explore wide ranging issues.
I have an approach which centres you, not just in the distress which brings you but in the questions which sit behind it, calling on you to live differently, to notice yourself differently, offering the potential to live in ways which feel more truthful to you, your needs and your hopes.
Training and Qualifications:
- BA Combined Social Sciences (University of Keele)
- Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (University of Keele)
- Post Graduate Certificate in Therapeutic Arts (IATE/University of East London)
- Diploma Integrative Counselling (The Minster Centre)
- Advanced Diploma Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (The Minster Centre)
- MA Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (Middlesex University)
Next Steps:
Finding a therapist can be time consuming, confusing, daunting.
If something I have written has connected with you please do reach out, and we can explore how it might feel to work together. It often feels less daunting once we step into a decision, and allow ourselves to trust another to help us through.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Please contact me directly about my fees.
When I work
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Further information
I offer in person sessions in Central London and Brighton. If these locations do not work for you please ask about online availability.
I work both short and long term, sessions are typically 50 minutes and offered at the same time weekly.
