Aimee Timms

Aimee Timms

Qualified Therapist

Aimee is a qualified psychodynamic therapist and member of UKCP who holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Counselling from The University of Brighton. She is currently engaged in an MSc in Psychotherapy to deepen her expertise and pursue her research interests.

At The Therapy Clinic, she primarily offers open-ended therapy to a wide range of people with emotional issues such as depression, bereavement, anxiety, self-harm and relationship issues, however, she additionally has considerable experience of providing short-term counselling. As a psychodynamic therapist, her work often involves returning to – and reflecting on – past experiences in order to move beyond them with a core belief that our early life experiences can shape the way we form relationships throughout our lives.

Prior to training, during an early career in children’s publishing, she fostered an interest in childhood development and the primary emotional and attachment experiences that define our early lives. This was followed by a decade as a qualitative researcher in the strategic design and innovation industry, spent having hundreds of conversations with people from a huge range of countries, cultures and circumstances about the things that mattered to them.

Each person’s path to therapy – and towards self-acceptance and change in their lives – is different, but she believes that therapy can be an enriching, creative relationship for everyone. Aimee strives to create a space where people can explore, think about – and even reconsider – the stories that they tell about themselves.


Rose Gardner, Clinical Director, The Therapy Clinic Brighton

Rose Gardner

Rose Gardner, Clinical Director, The Therapy Clinic Brighton

Rose Gardner

Rose is founder and Clinical Director at The Therapy Clinic. She is a UKCP accredited therapist and supervisor with 25 years experience of working in mental health settings across the NHS, charity and educational sectors.

As a practitioner Rose works with individuals and couples and with all age groups from adolescents to older adults. Her clinical expertise includes psychodynamic, systemic and cognitive approaches as well as a number of evidence based short term therapy models. She has a particular interest in IPT (Interpersonal Psychotherapy) and TDLP (Time Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy) as cost effective , time limited therapies for depression.

Rose is an experienced supervisor, trainer, academic teacher and organisational consultant. She provides supervision in individual and group formats for psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists and other mental health professionals. Rose also specialises in supervision, reflective practice and mentoring for senior professionals working in demanding clinical and organisational contexts including those dealing with complex cases or working across different therapeutic modalities. In establishing The Therapy Clinic Rose has sought to bring together a group of highly skilled and professional psychotherapists, counsellors and psychologists who share a commitment to social enterprise values and between them offer an exceptional level of expertise in a range of evidence based therapies. In doing so she has drawn on her previous experience of senior management and leadership roles within statutory and voluntary sector organisations including a number of years as Consultant Psychological Therapist for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust where she established a reputation for innovation in leadership, service development, staff supervision and training.