Hastings Therapy Centre

10/09/2025

COMING UP

This weekend our very own Kerry Evans and Helen Gilbert are running a sold out workshop at Hasting Book Festival!

‘The Therapeutic Power of Writing’ is an interactive workshop that will explore how you can get more out of your writing and how your writing can get more out of you.

It will include the neuroscience on why writing and storytelling are good for wellbeing, the use of writing in psychotherapy, overcoming writers block and more.

Thank you to Hastings Book Festival 2025 for having us. It’s all kicking off this week, so check out their programme for more events!
https://www.hastingsbookfest.org/events/workshop-the-therapeutic-power-of-writing

28/07/2025

Read July's issue of the Therapeutic Thread here! https://mailchi.mp/brightontherapycentre/therapeutic-thread-july-2025

03/06/2025

We’re hiring!

Vacancies in both Brighton AND Hastings, we are looking for highly skilled therapists to join our management team at an exciting time of growth for our organisation.

Whether you are newly qualified or an experienced practitioner, we would love to hear from you.

More information about the role and how to apply can be found on our website - https://hastingstherapycentre.org.uk/join-the-team/ -centre-manager

Deadline: 2nd July!

14/05/2025

Did you know that 17% of Hastings residents report experiencing depression? That's 5% more than the national average.

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week. It can be hard to start a conversation about mental health, but talking does help.

Whether that's talking to people in your community, your family or friends. Or you can talk to us.

24/04/2025

We are very excited to say that all profits from sale of this beer will go towards funding our low and no-cost therapy for people in our community!

Thank you so much to The Hastings Project for the support and for choosing us as one of your charities to support. If you fancy trying some, you can find them on their online shop.

🍋 🍇🌴 FRESH PALE 🌴🍇🍋

We have a fresh batch of our 4.8% Pale Ale. A development on the previous recipe, with more tropical notes to compliment the zesty, citrus-laden profile.

Grist of Extra Pale, Wheat and Oats, with Cashmere, Motueka and Riwaka hops.

Delish.

This batch is all for the wonderful people of the . Specifically, profits will go towards helping with financial assistance in securing vital therapy for vulnerable people within the community.

AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSHOP NOW.

Brewed as ever with the good people of

15/04/2025

“People are scared of breakdowns,” he says. But “a breakdown is the old you dying. Your brain is resetting itself. It’s taking care of you.”

David Williams lost his mother, his marriage fell apart and he was diagnosed with a brain tumour. But it took one more blow to bring him to tears

17/03/2025

Around on 10th April? Come and find us here!

📣Pints with Purpose is nearly here📣

Join us for an evening filled with community spirit, THP beers and incredible local initiatives. Whether you’re here for the beer, live music, the delicious food or to connect with inspiring local charities, this event is all about coming together for a good cause!

What’s in store?
💛 Meet the changemakers – get to know local charities making a real impact in our community. Whether you’re interested in volunteering, donating or just learning more, this is your chance to engage and get inspired
🍺 Beers by – sip on a pint brewed by THP while supporting a meaningful cause
🎵 Live music – by the wonderful .twangueros
🍴 Mouthwatering food from

Charities involved:

🗓️ Mark your calendars, bring your friends and let’s turn pints into purpose.

05/09/2024

Today is International Day of Charity so we wanted to hop on and say a huge thank you to everyone who makes our charitable work possible.

Thanks to the commitment of our therapists who dedicate their time to low-cost work, our grant funders, individual donors, and full-fee paying clients, we are able to provide high quality therapy to people who otherwise couldn’t afford it.

This work can make a huge difference to people’s lives, and we are grateful to everyone who joins us in this mission!

22/08/2024

Practitioner Spotlight!

Meet Victoria Thompson, a key member of our team and an integrative Dance Movement Therapist.

"I have been practicing as an Integrative Psychotherapist for the past 15 years. Prior to this I was a community dance practitioner taking dance into places where you might not usually find it - nurseries, SEN schools, hospitals, care homes, prisons and hospices.

Often the people I worked with were unwell and traumatised. Movement allowed them to express themselves without the need for language.

Witnessing people find their dance was inspiring work but not without challenges and this is what lead me to begin training in Creative Arts Therapies at Roehampton University. I studied a 1 year post graduate certificate called Arts for Change and went on to complete a 3 year Masters in Dance Movement Psychotherapy which is based on the understanding that the body and mind are deeply connected, where movement and posture are seen as a holistic expression of the self.

Peter Levine is a psychotherapist that I follow and he developed an approach called Somatic Experiencing. His book “Waking the Tiger” is a fantastic introduction to embodied therapy. He says “trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathic witness”.

As a therapist I offer empathic witnessing, supporting clients to slow down, to notice, and to become present to the sensations in their body as they tell their stories and to move towards patterns of being that feel more aligned, comfortable and integrated."

17/07/2024

Therapy can be a transformative experience, and not just for the clients.

Therapists are always learning. Things about themselves, life, death, love. Things about therapy itself.

No one is the same, and therapy is a two-way-process, so of course we all have something to learn from it.

I've been asking our therapists what some of the biggest lessons they've learned from their clients are, and will be sharing these lessons on our social media.

If you can, feel free to share! Either let us know some things you've learned from therapy, or share our work and help make a difference.

If you want to hear more from the team, you can subscribe to our Newsletter here https://brightontherapycentre.org.uk/newsletter_signup/

And you can read our previous issues on our website here https://hastingstherapycentre.org.uk/newsletter_archive/

18/06/2024

Meet the newest member of our team here in Hastings, Julie Allen. Unlike the rest of our practitioners, who are mostly counsellors and psychotherapists, Julie is a qualified Coach.

We will explore a bit more what coaching is and how it can help you, but first, let us introduce you to Julie herself:

"I grew up in a village near Glasgow but I’ve lived outside Scotland for most of my life. I visit my family there often. I taught English in Spain and Japan, I worked in London for over twenty years and I’ve been living in St Leonards on Sea since 2017. I love the live music scene in Hastings and I love literature, gardening and walking by the sea.

When I first started coaching 1-1 and witnessed a client gaining an insight into their challenge - their eyes opening wide, their face flushed with emotion and a huge smile on their face, I thought Wow! This coaching thing is powerful! To do work that has such a positive impact on someone’s life is a thrill and a privilege.

I tend to coach people with workplace challenges but as work impacts many other aspects of our lives, my coaching work does too.

In the past, friends and colleagues often confided in me and told me I’m a good listener but without a doubt, coaching has made me a better listener. People feel the difference when you really pay attention to them and one result of that is that all conversations become much more interesting. I love that."

13/05/2024

It's Mental Health Awareness Week and we have some very exciting news to share!

Thanks to recent funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, we are offering all of our low-cost consultations for FREE from now until the end of June.

This means that if you're eligible for low-cost therapy (check our website for the requirements), then you can book your assessment for free!

We are so grateful to the Community Fund for their support so that we can do our important low-cost work at a time where mental health support is needed more than ever.

Book yours now - https://hastingstherapycentre.org.uk/bookings/ -now