Counselling, supervision and training in Lewes and Brighton
Warm, collaborative and creative counselling.
Therapy for adults, creatives, and teens who mask, overthink, and feel exhausted from holding it all together.
Whether you are navigating neurodivergence, anxiety, or major life transitions, you don't have to fit your experience into a rigid box. I'm Amy, a senior BACP accredited counsellor and supervisor, who blends humanistic talking therapy with writing and creative arts.
Together, we can quiet the internal noise, process deep tiredness, and create ways of living and expressing yourself that work with your mind, not against it.
A phone call, not a form. We talk about what is going on, and you decide whether you would like to meet.
- BACP accredited, member 374395
- PG Dip Humanistic Psychotherapy, Brighton University
- Face to face in Brighton or Lewes, or online
- A free 15-minute call
What brings people here.
People come to counselling for many different reasons. If you are struggling with any of these, we can work through it together.
Anxiety, stress and burnout.
Including work that has stopped being survivable, and the kind of tiredness that sleep does not touch.
Family patterns and self-esteem.
Patterns that keep repeating, difficult family history, and the low self-esteem that often sits underneath both.
Change, transition and trauma.
Major life changes, and experiences that still shape how you respond long after they happened.
A little different
When the words will not come.
Sometimes finding the exact words for what you are going through feels impossible. Bringing creative elements into the work lets us get past that. Working creatively helps you see old patterns from a fresh angle, and lets you express feelings that words alone do not quite reach.
How we work is always led by you. If you want to talk, we talk. If you feel stuck, I might gently suggest something else, like writing therapy, to help with what is happening underneath.
- Humanistic psychotherapy as the foundation
- Writing therapy, if and when it helps
- Creative arts approaches, at your pace
- Nothing you have not agreed to
Neurodivergent-affirming
If you are neurodivergent.
Whether you have known since childhood, found out recently, or are still working it out, most therapy is not set up for how your mind works. This is.
I was diagnosed with ADHD in my early thirties, so I know what arriving at that understanding as an adult is like from the inside as well as from the work.
Neurodivergent-affirming therapy.
One-to-one work for neurodivergent adults, diagnosed at any age, self-identifying, or still wondering. Online across the UK, or in person in Brighton or Lewes.
Supervision for practitioners.
Clinical supervision that does not treat your own neurodivergence as something to manage around.
Support after a diagnosis.
For the months after an assessment, when the report is done and the support stops.
What happens next.
Getting in touch is the part most people find hardest, so it is the smallest step here.
A free 15-minute call.
We talk about your difficulties and decide together whether we would like to meet. No charge, and no obligation to book anything.
Your first session.
Fifty minutes, face to face in Brighton, Lewes, or online. Nothing to prepare, and nothing you have to talk about before you are ready.
We find a rhythm.
Usually weekly. Fees are payable a week in advance, and 24 hours notice moves a session rather than losing it.
Fees, stated plainly.
I like to be clear about what you can expect to pay, so there is nothing to work out later.
Start here
Initial consultation
- Talk about your difficulties
- Decide if we would like to meet
- Book an appointment
Individuals
Therapy sessions
- Face to face in Brighton, Lewes or online
- Regular weekly sessions
- Payable one week in advance
Supervision
Clinical supervision
- 45 minutes fortnightly, or 90 minutes monthly
- Individuals and groups
- Free initial phone consultation
“I have really enjoyed our sessions and can’t tell you how much better I feel.”
“She has introduced me to different approaches and tools, and helped me find ways of framing my thoughts and feelings that really work for me.”
Having sat in the client’s chair myself, I know how much courage it takes to reach out. My own experience of therapy is what led me to train, and it shapes the respect I bring to every session.
Where I have worked.
Over my career I have worked as a counsellor, supervisor and trainer across NHS, educational and charitable organisations.
Teams and organisations can see what I offer them on the wellbeing services for organisations page.
Healthcare
Royal Sussex County Hospital. Brighton and Hove Wellbeing Service. Tiny Tickers.
Charities and not-for-profits
RNIB. Refugee Radio. Conversations over Borders. INTERSOS. Manchester Refugee Support Network. Release Counselling & Therapy for Women.
Youth and education
Roedean School. The Foyer.
From the blog.
Written from the work, and from my own experience of finding out late.
ADHD, perimenopause and the compounding nobody warned you about
Two things that each make the other harder to see, arriving at once, in a decade when women are routinely told they are simply tired.
Autistic burnout: what it is, and how recovery actually works
Not ordinary tiredness, and not depression, though it is regularly treated as both.
AuDHD in women: what it looks like when nobody spotted it
A recognition piece rather than a checklist. If several of these land, that is the point of them.
In their words.
“Working with Amy is really valuable to me. Amy creates a safe space to explore difficult feelings and experiences, and while she shares her thoughts and insights, never pushes her view or tries to tell me what’s ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, which really makes me feel comfortable being open and honest. I also love that Amy has introduced me to different approaches and tools, and has helped me find ways of framing my thoughts and feelings that really work for me.”
Not sure where to begin?
That is what the free call is for. Fifteen minutes on the phone, and no obligation to book anything afterwards.