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Many of our team also offer consultancy and clinical supervision. We work with individuals, couples and families and also offer consultancy to organisations.

Highly experienced counselling, psychotherapy and consultancy practice offering individual, couple, family and group psychotherapy to children, adolescents and adults. Brighton & Hove Psychotherapy is comprised of a team of highly skilled counsellors and psychotherapists with clinics in Hove and Lewes, East Sussex. Our skills and ways of working are different, providing clients with a clear choice

in which approach would suit them best. Our differences are brought together under the ethos that each and every person has the potential to find their way through their problems, thereby enabling them to make more conscious choices.

22/04/2026

I am Gerry Gilmartin and I am an accredited, registered, and experienced psychotherapeutic counsellor and have been working in the field of physical and mental health and well being for twenty years.

I understand the therapeutic dialogue to be one of depth, characterised by respect, compassion and humanity and grounded in relationship. I aim to support people in an exploration of their unique lived experience, and an understanding of themselves from a range of perspectives, cognitive, behavioural, relational, sexual, emotional and spiritual.

I am interested in how the events and circumstances of our lives influence our sense of who we are, our relationships with others and with the world. I have a particular interest in questions of identity and belonging and in the existential givens of human experience, of life and death, love, loss and meaning. Increasing our capacity to tolerate anxiety, ambivalence, disappointment and uncertainty enables us to embrace the life we have (or want) more fully and compassionately.

Read more: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/practitioners/gerry-gilmartin/

21/04/2026

Why do we keep ending up in the same situations — with the same feelings?

We often find ourselves replaying old patterns, returning to familiar emotional ground with the quiet hope that this time, the ending will be different.

But what if awareness is the first step to breaking that cycle?

Understanding repetition isn’t about blame — it’s about insight. And with the right support, those patterns can change.

🔗https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/blog/repetition-compulsion-why-we-repeat-the-past-and-how-therapy-helps/

20/04/2026

How might po*******hy affect the capacity to relate? by David Work

I have previously reflected on the compulsive use of po*******hy and explored some of the origins of such a compulsion from an individual perspective. Here, I want to consider some relational aspects of the experience of compulsive use of po*******hy. We are relational beings and our sense of self develops through relations with others…

Click to read more: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/blog/how-might-po*******hy-affect-the-capacity-to-relate/

17/04/2026

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on understanding how your thoughts, feelings and behaviours are connected and how they shape your everyday experiences. By identifying unhelpful patterns and learning practical strategies, it can help you create positive, lasting change.

If you’re ready to take back control and move forward with clarity, CBT can be a powerful place to start.

Find out more or get in touch to begin your journey.

15/04/2026

Mark Vahrmeyer - Co-Founder of Brighton and Hove Psychotherapy

I am an experienced UKCP registered Integrative Psychotherapist offering open-ended depth psychotherapy sessions to individuals and couples in Brighton & Hove and in Lewes. I also offer clinical supervision to counsellors, psychotherapists and counselling psychologists.In my work, I am primarily informed by a psychoanalytic approach to my work and specifically object relations thought and theory. I work relationally with my patients as I operate from the premise that the unique relationship that is built between therapist and patient is not incidental to the work, but the active ingredient. What is broken through relationship, can only be repaired through relationship.

Read more: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/practitioners/mark-vahrmeyer/

14/04/2026

Psychological and emotional maturity involves the capacity to hold complexity and tolerate difference. It’s about being able to communicate through disagreement and coexist with different perspectives, without needing to dismiss or destroy what we don’t understand. This is what true integration looks like — and something we may be moving away from.

🔗 https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/blog/the-rise-of-one-sided-relationships/

13/04/2026

Understanding trauma responses by Kirsty Toal

But it was so long ago! When remembering a traumatic event feels as frightening as, or even more frightening than, living it. People often come to therapy with an awareness of past challenging events impacting their current lives. It is common to feel frightened and unable to think about those events when they have been…

Click to read more: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/blog/understanding-trauma-responses/

10/04/2026

Evidence-based care for a range of psychological and emotional challenges — delivered with compassion and professionalism.

09/04/2026

Clinical psychology is a branch of applied psychology practised by registered psychologists who use a range of approaches and methods in treating clients and in helping them achieve identified outcomes. It can be both short-term as well as open-ended, however, is generally goal focused.

Read more: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/types-of-therapy/clinical-psychology/

08/04/2026

Meet the team - Dean Palmer

I offer confidential psychotherapy, counselling, and executive coaching for adults who are functioning on the outside but struggling on the inside — people who want to understand themselves more deeply, interrupt unhelpful patterns, and build a steadier sense of self-worth and clarity.If you’re feeling anxious or overwhelmed, therapy offers a space to pause, explore what lies beneath those experiences, and respond with greater clarity and confidence.

Click to read more: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/practitioners/dean-palmer/

07/04/2026

The rise of one-sided relationships
by Sam Jahara

The rise of one-sided relationships is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. We are seeing it it in the growing phenomenon of intimate relationships with chatbots. We are seeing it in the rise of misogyny, more recently exposed in Louis Theroux’s latest documentary on the manosphere where men who want relationships with women entirely on their…

Click to read more: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/blog/the-rise-of-one-sided-relationships/

03/04/2026

Hello April 🌿
Our latest newsletter from Brighton & Hove Psychotherapy is here—packed with thought-provoking insights and real-life reflections on mental health, relationships, and wellbeing.

From understanding why people are drawn into cults, to exploring parental burnout and the impact of AI on intimacy—there’s something for everyone.

👉 Visit our website to sign up to the newsletter and stay connected with our latest insights.

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Monday	9am - 9pm
Tuesday	9am - 9pm
Wednesday	9am - 9pm
Thursday	9am - 9pm
Friday	9am - 9pm

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https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/

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Brighton & Hove Psychotherapy is comprised of a team of highly skilled counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists with clinics in Hove and Lewes, East Sussex. We work with individuals, couples and families and see both adults and children. Our skills and ways of working are different, providing clients with a clear choice in which approach would suit them best. Our differences are brought together under the ethos that each and every person has the potential to find their way through their problems, thereby enabling them to make more conscious choices.