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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.

22/11/2025

🧠 Thought of the Week
A powerful reminder of the growing mental health impact linked to high-potency cannabis use in the UK.

Research shows 30% of new psychosis cases are now associated with high-strength cannabis — a statistic that cannot be ignored.
Conversations like this matter, and staying informed is key to supporting ourselves and others. 💬

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21/11/2025

Meet the team...

Introducing Georgia Leake

I am a NVR UK accredited Advanced Level NVR Practitioner. I hold a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, a Master of Education (Special Needs and Inclusive Education), a Master of Arts in Social Sciences and QTLS.

I hold the Advanced Level Certificate in NVR (Non Violent Resistance) Practice and am an experienced teacher and foster carer.

I am passionate about supporting families and individuals to thrive using NVR-informed practice.

In my work with families I look to embed the key principles of NVR to lead to greater empowerment of all of the individuals within family relationships and I hope you will find it to be a very optimistic and positive approach. I work alongside families and in schools to provide constructive and practical support to lead to lasting change within the family, by helping individuals to make adjustments which enhance communication, enable deepening of relationships and transform disruptive and turbulent relationship patterns.

I am available to provide NVR support to birth-, fostering and adoptive families. Typically my work involves consultation with parents and does not require the direct involvement of the child, though the work is flexible according to the needs of each family.

Read more by copying and pasting this link ➡️ https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/practitioners/georgie-leake/

19/11/2025

Clinical supervision: This involves a therapeutic practitioner regularly meeting with either a colleague trained in clincial supervision or being a part of a supervision group to discuss casework and any other professional issues in a structured way. The purpose of this is to provide guidance, support, and feedback to ensure the practitioner maintains ethical and effective practices.

Read more: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/types-of-therapy/clinical-supervision-for-individuals-and-organisations/

18/11/2025

A throwback to when Sam was asked to provide comment to Glamour magazine on how sibling birth order may influence personality traits.

Read more: https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/personality-traits-sibling-rank

17/11/2025

Holding difference: identity and the space between self and other
by Shiraz El Showk

The formation of identity is never a solitary endeavour. From our earliest moments, we develop a sense of who we are through relationship—first with primary caregivers, then with siblings, peers, and the broader cultural world. Yet this process of coming to selfhood while remaining in relationship …

Click to read more: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/blog/holding-difference-identity-and-the-space-between-self-and-other/

15/11/2025

Psychotherapy—especially in its depth forms—isn’t merely about validation or giving advice. It’s not a polished mirror reflecting words in gentler tones. It’s something deeper. It’s two minds, each shaped by history and longing, coming together in a shared space and wrestling with what emerges.

Read more about why this encounter cannot be replicated, automated, or outsourced: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/blog/ai-psychosis-why-depth-therapy-cannot-be-automated/

14/11/2025

Thought of the week..."Never assume you know a patient’s experience, past or present. Stay curious. Ask them to say more. Language can reveal, but it can also conceal. This is why symbolism in therapy often speaks more powerfully than ‘feeling words’. When a patient and therapist can swim in shared symbolism, something profoundly intimate occurs: the patient’s inner world is being lived as if in real time."

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13/11/2025

Working with children and adolescents is a specialised field and my training has equipped me to be able to use skills and approaches that allow me to work with young children who may not have the emotional vocabulary to express themselves.

I welcome referrals for children, adolescents, and young adults.

Approach
My practice is based in the psychodynamic tradition, which places the therapeutic relationship at the heart of emotional change and supports young people in making sense of their inner world through a consistent, confidential, and trusting relationship. I work relationally, recognising that, alongside talking, distress can be expressed in a non-directive way through behaviour, play, or physical symptoms. Working with these relational patterns can help find the root of concerns which enables a positive and lasting change.

Alongside therapy sessions, I work closely with parents, carers, and professionals where appropriate. My approach is non-judgemental and flexible, and tailored to the developmental and emotional needs of each child or young person. I am experienced in both long-term and time-limited therapy, depending on the situation and what feels right for the individual.

Read more: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/practitioners/jonny-mcauley/

12/11/2025

Individual Therapy - Seeing a therapist as an individual can be enormously supportive and constructive, whether that is for a short-term piece of focused work, through to a longer and more in-depth period of psychotherapy.
For short-term work, accessing counselling as an individual can be a beneficial way of working through issues that are troubling; creating stress, anxiety or depression and/or impacting on relationships with friends, colleagues or loved ones.

Read more: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/therapy-services/individual-therapy/

11/11/2025

A throwback to when Mark was asked by HuffPost to provide comment on why we collectively judge women harshly who don’t smile regularly

READ MORE: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/why-do-we-hate-women-who-dont-smile-enough_uk_652ea31ce4b0da897ab579ec

10/11/2025

The two faces of shame: how this powerful feeling shapes our lives by David Keighley

In the therapy room, shame – which we often hide, almost at any cost – frequently hinders progress. Clients sometimes conceal aspects of their behaviour they fear are shameful, such as viewing po*******hy, taking class A drugs, or losing their temper.This is because it is perhaps one of the most … [Read more...https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/blog/the-two-faces-of-shame-how-this-powerful-feeling-shapes-our-lives/

07/11/2025

Thought of the Week...

“When AI Replaces Absence: Why Constant Availability Destroys Therapy.”

A reflection from exploring how the digital age challenges the boundaries that make therapy meaningful.

How do you feel about the idea of AI and constant availability in therapy?

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Brighton And Hove

Opening Hours

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

Telephone

+441273921355

Website

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.