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Acorn Counselling Therapy provides caring and empathic counselling face to face in Hove and online

Face to face or online counselling sessions are £50 for 50 minutes

24/04/2026

Being LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent can be complex. Psychotherapist Peter Golder explores how therapy can help you embrace your authentic self. 👇 http://ow.ly/lsaz106xj8y

24/01/2026

Hi, I’m currently studying for a supervision diploma and I’m looking to offer blocks of 10 online sessions of low-cost individual supervision to build up my supervision hours. £10 per session.

I am a UKCP-registered Certified Transactional Analyst - CTA (Psychotherapy) working predominantly with the LGBTQ+ community.

Alongside my private practice, I am the Counselling Service Manager for MindOut, a leading charity dedicated to the mental health of the LGBTQ+ community in Brighton, Hove, and across the UK. This role gives me unique insight into service management, clinical assessments, and placement dynamics.

I offer a professional, empathic, and collaborative supervision style, with a focus on diversity and socio-cultural factors that influence both the client’s experience and the therapeutic relationship.

If you are interested in additional supervision that could also be used for CPD please contact me by email info@acorncounsellingtherapy.com

23/08/2024

I’m now the counselling service manager at the charity I work at, overseeing all aspects of the counselling team, assessments and counselling offered. Feeling excited about starting this role and continuing to support the community and their mental health.

04/08/2024

Like this little acorn, we carry baggage around with us every day. Mental baggage weighing us down. Unpacking and offloading some of this heaviness can be essential for lightening our journey through life. Offering us the chance to focus on today, rather than feel burdened by the past.

25/07/2024

Throughout life, we can come to believe that we don’t belong—whether that’s within the family, a group of friends, or in society. This is a painful experience that can leave an individual feeling alone, isolated, and othered.
People may feel this way for various reasons. They might have been ostracised or experienced prejudice, leading them to feel separate from others.
Therapy can be a valuable place to explore our sense of how we connect with others and them with us. Individuals can learn to account for how their experiences with others have shaped them and develop an awareness of ways to build meaningful relationships that work for them.

17/07/2024

No two acorns are the same, yet we like to think of them as the same. No two humans are the same, yet we group ourselves and others together or apart. Looking for traits that define us as the same or opposite.

If we were acorns, we could all exist in the forest together. Yet for some, there seems to be a preference for wanting certain acorns to grow and mature. Rather than giving each acorn a chance to sprout it’s roots, and shoot up to the sky.

We are all different, and our diversity enriches the forest of humanity. Filtering out what’s possible, dulls the light, making the world, and life, a bit grey.

02/07/2024

The stump of a felled tree offers a glimpse into its life. Likewise, through the process of counselling and therapy, a person can begin to appreciate and understand how their lived experience shaped who they are. By lifting the lid and exploring aspects of a person’s life, therapy can help to reveal the cause of problems affecting someone’s life today.

21/06/2024

Hold on Tight!!
Roundabouts could be great fun when we were small, but sometimes they’d be spun so fast that we’d need to grip on tight, otherwise we’d fly off and get hurt. Life can feel like that, before we know it we are going round and round, faster and faster, pressure and anxiety building up. Holding on tight and afraid to let go.

As adults we have more awareness to control how fast our life is spinning. We can choose to ask for help to slow it down. We can be explicit with ourselves and others about how fast we want to go. Like roundabouts, our lives are great if the ride is fun. Sometimes though we need to make an intervention, to slow things down, to protect our head from spinning.

26/01/2024

Q***r Superpowers 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

We all have our own unique superpowers. People who identify as LGBTQ+ hold exceptional mental superpowers in many areas that help them deal with their q***r life.

There’s many to choose from, but I’ve listed a few here.

- STRENGTH from bearing the pressure of societal expectations to be a certain way,
- CREATIVE in finding and developing their own unique identity.
- AUTONOMOUS in deciding to live their life, rather than the life others want them to lead.
- COURAGEOUS to live authentically and be themselves in a world that can be hostile.
- OBSERVANT with a sharp eye of social situations that keep themselves safe.
- RESILIENT in the face of bullying, prejudice, discrimination and rejection.
- AWARENESS and UNDERSTANDING developed from processing their identity as a kid and adult.
- HONESTY and OPENNESS in having to ‘come out’ to people again and again.
- SENSITIVE to the feelings and needs of others.
- PROUD of who they are and their right to live life authentically.

What are your superpowers?

***rsuperpower ***rsuperheroes ***rcounselling

24/01/2024

Mindful spring cleaning can be useful any time of the year. To tidy and sort things out before we get buried and weighed down by our mental clutter.

21/01/2024

We all have things we want to keep secret.

There are situations when keeping quiet is required if we know that disclosing a secret could hurt us or others. The safety of people comes first at all times.

Sometimes though, we can hide aspects of ourselves or what we’ve been through, for fear of being judged by others.

This fear that looms over us can be awful. Its presence might have a daily impact on us, whether consciously or unintentionally. Some days we can manage the fear, while on others, it feels overwhelming and leads us into panic.

Hiding aspects of our lives, ourselves and the experiences we have lived through, can be hard work, taking a lot of mental effort. This affects our mental health. To manage this we might push these secrets out of our awareness. Alternatively, we can anxiously make sure to keep them out of sight of others, to avoid feeling judged.

We often see ourselves through the eyes of the child inside of us, judging the parts of us that we feel should remain hidden. A child’s viewpoint lacking an adult’s perspective. This means, rather than realising we can be open about what we want to communicate and maintain the love and support of others, we feel alone and become engrossed in the conflicts, fears, and shame that reside inside our heads.

Building awareness that it’s ok to be more transparent about who we are can be vital. We might be able to relieve some of our mental burden by sharing aspects about ourselves with other people, which can improve our overall wellbeing.

12/01/2024

Mirror mirror on the wall…

Like sitting in front of a mirror, we come to appreciate ourselves through the reflection we get from others and perhaps one of the most significant others who shape and influence us, are the people who raise us. Whether that be our parents, grandparents, other family members, guardians or significant adult others.

They noticed when we did things and reported back to us what we were doing. Often this was positive and said with pride and encouragement. We felt the warmth of our their gaze and the ripple of excitement from the positive effect we had on them.

As children we would also be naughty, and our elders anger would tell us they were displeased. We learnt boundaries and what was appropriate and what wasn’t.

Some parents want their kids to be a reflection of themselves, so tell their kids who they should be rather than allowing their kids to find out who they are for themselves. These kids might learn their choices are not their own, which impacts them when they want to do something different later in life.

Some significant others aren’t that interested in the kids they raise and offer no mirror to help them see who they are. These kids might then believe no one is interested in them and find it difficult to build close relationships with others.

It is often useful in therapy to understand how an individual has been impacted by their caregivers. Each person’s story will be different. Some folks are told they’re the fairest of them all, while some, like the Evil Queen in Snow White, may not like what they were told.

The reflection others offer us is important, but perhaps, one of the most important things to gain is greater self-awareness. For then you see yourself as you are and appreciate who you are, for there is no one on this earth like you.

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