Affiliated Therapists

The therapy clinic Brighton

Our wider network of Affiliated Therapists are a diverse group of accredited and experienced practitioners who share our social enterprise values. Their specialist expertise in a number of different psychological therapies enables us to offer an extended range of cost sensitive counselling and psychotherapy options.

James is a BACP registered, qualified, psychodynamic counsellor with experience gained with a wide range of presenting issues both in private practice and working for charities to provide counselling support.

James graduated as a Psychodynamic Counsellor in 2017 and has since accumulated over three hundred hours of practice, gaining experience in working with a wide range of presenting issues including complex bereavement, anxiety, depression LGBTQ issues and living with illness. As a qualified counsellor at The Therapy Clinic James continues to work with a broad range of clients.

Before training to be counsellor James spent much of his professional career working in education. Here he worked in specialist units with children who often presented behavioural problems and learning difficulties. After finding that establishing relationships with the students and investing time and taking an interest in their lives acted as a force for positive change, he found himself drawn into relational work and decided to become a counsellor.

After qualifying as a Psychodynamic counsellor, James held a position at the MacMillan Horizon centre, working with recovering cancer patients and family members of cancer patients. Working with these family members led to an interest in working with couples and in 2018 James undertook additional training as a couple’s counsellor.

After studying more contemporary theorists alongside classic psychoanalytic analysts such as Freud James’ approach is based on understanding that there is a link between the past and the present, without assuming that there a direct cause and effect for a presenting problem. Instead there is an understanding that that feelings and learned responses from childhood can have an impact on how we respond and react in adult life.

Sarah a chartered clinical psychologist with over 15 years experience working with adults with a range of mental health problems in the NHS. She is experienced in working with a range of presenting difficulties including anxiety, depression, stress, difficulties in relationships, self-harm, bereavement and loneliness. 

Sarah primarily works using Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) as a framework to enable her to help clients make sense of their difficulties in a compassionate and coherent way and then work with them to find ways out of unhelpful behaviours and patterns. Sarah is also a qualified EMDR therapist and she offers EMDR for trauma related difficulties that require an approach targeted to specific unhelpful memories. In addition she is trained to deliver Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and she is able to integrate both these approaches into her work where helpful. 

Sarah is an accredited CAT supervisor and trainer and can offer individual or group supervision. She is registered with the British Psychological Society,  Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy and The Health and Care Professions Council. 

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Clare is a BACP accredited counsellor with a Post Graduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling from Brighton University. Before setting out on her counselling career Clare worked in the charity sector working with adolescents . She facilitated workshops around drugs, alcohol, healthy relationships and issues around gender and identity, working with up to 120 teenagers at a time on residential projects, Clare’s subsequent work as a counsellor in the University sector, means that she has gained extensive experiences of working with a broad range of issues that arise in adulthood . She has a continuing interest in how our early experiences influence our behaviour in the present. Clare uses an integrative approach to suit the needs of the individual client and is able to draw from a range of therapeutic models including psychodynamic and CBT. Clare is also a qualified Supervisor.

Nadia is a psychodynamic psychotherapist working in full time practice, in Brighton and London. Nadia originally completed a rigorous 4 year training at WPF Therapy. and has subsequently gained considerable experience of working with people with a broad range of issues. She is a fully accredited member of the BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council) and the FPC (Foundation for Counselling and Psychotherapy).

Nadia offers a space for clients to explore whatever they feel is causing them difficulty – whether they have been struggling for a long time or perhaps have experienced a recent crisis. She takes the view that no human being is immune from suffering and whatever the reason, psychotherapy sessions can provide a crucial opportunity to process and reflect on struggles, think about relational patterns that might be unhelpful and explore how past experiences could be having an impact on the present day. Psychodynamic work can take time, requiring courage to think about feelings that may have been avoided for a long time. However, it can also be a relief to find the safe and ongoing support to enable a better understanding of oneself and to begin to change one’s relationship with self and others.

Julia is an accredited psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor with established practices in Brighton and Hove, Lewes and London. Julia initially trained in Gestalt therapy a holistic and integrative therapy with roots in psychoanalysis. Gestalt therapy emphasises the therapeutic relationship in facilitating a process of self-discovery and growth and also proposes the idea that mind and body are not separate with much to be gained from investigating the felt experience of the body.

Julia has a background in the arts, as well as experience in mental health services and for many years worked in and managed a Mind/NHS therapy service. People using this service had a wide variety of mental and emotional health concerns including depression, trauma, loss, identity, anxiety, insomnia, eating disorders, mental illness, anger management and relationship issues.

Julia works with both individuals and couples . She has experience of working with people from diverse backgrounds and is committed to the ethos embedded in the Therapy clinic, offering accessible and responsive therapy to the community. She is registered with the UKCP and works in line with their Code of Ethics.

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Eurik is an experienced BACP-accredited psychodynamic counsellor and training member of the Association of Group and Individual Psychotherapy, currently working towards full membership and UKCP accreditation. He offers both psychodynamic counselling and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in person and online.

Eurik works with a broad range of clients and presenting issues. His open ended client led approach is very inclusive and he also has extensive experience of working with diversity in relation to sexuality, relationships and gender identity. Eurik takes a broader and arguably more updated view of both early and life-long development than that associated with more classical psychoanalytic approaches. His background in experiential and outdoor education also influences his view of how experience shapes us throughout life.

Eurik works collaboratively with clients, always aiming to support them during the process and to help them explore the roots of any difficulties and gain a deeper understanding of their inner world, in order to heal and move forward.