Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Counselling and Therapy · Peacehaven
Counselling and Therapy for Peacehaven and the surrounding area, in person or online. Peacehaven sits on the clifftops where the Greenwich Meridian meets the sea, between Brighton and Newhaven. From my room in nearby Hove I offer a calm, confidential space to do this work.

In and around Peacehaven
Life in Peacehaven
Out here the seasons are obvious. Summer fills the clifftop walk and the roads west; by November the light goes early, the wind comes off the water and the avenues are quiet by six. A lot of people find that something in them turns down at the same time, and cannot explain why this year it has not turned back up. There is no single event to blame. Work is the same, the house is the same, and yet getting through the day has started to take everything. Counselling and therapy is designed as a starting point for exactly this, before anything has a name and while you are still saying it is probably nothing. In 2022/23, 24.1% of adults locally reported a high anxiety score, above the England average.
Areas covered
Wherever you are in Peacehaven, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
Official figures for Peacehaven, for context rather than as a description of you.
24.1% of adults reported a high anxiety score in 2022/23, above the England average of 23.8%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Self-reported wellbeing: high anxiety score (2022/23).
recorded depression on GP registers stood at 17.4% of patients aged 18+ in 2024/25, above the England average of 14.3%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Depression: QOF prevalence (2024/25).
the rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 192.7 per 100,000 in 2023/24, above the England average of 117 per 100,000. Source: OHID Fingertips – Emergency Hospital Admissions for Intentional Self-Harm (2023/24).
Reviewed June 2026.
Counselling and therapy here is one steady starting point for whatever you are carrying, anxiety, low mood, addiction, relationships or the past, integrative and led by you, so we begin with what matters most and shape the work around you.
What actually happens in the room is the same everywhere, so it is written up once: see the main counselling and therapy page for the methods, how I work for fees and session lengths, and professional standards and registration if you want to check who you would be working with.
Sessions take place in a private, comfortable room at Intergen House on Western Road in central Hove, held to the strict BACP confidentiality you would expect. We begin with a free fifteen-minute call to check we are a good fit, and the same sessions are available by secure video if travelling is difficult or you would simply prefer it.
Sessions take place in person in Hove, a twenty to twenty-five minute run west along the coast, or online by secure video from wherever you are. Most people begin weekly, which builds momentum early on. If you work in Brighton anyway, an appointment on the way home saves a separate journey. If the winter roads or a long shift make travel unappealing, video works equally well and nothing has to be decided permanently.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
For the flatness, exhaustion and loss of interest that drain the colour from things.
Alcohol, drugs, gambling or behaviours that have stopped feeling like a choice.
Conflict, distance and trust, as a couple or on your own.
When something you have been through still shapes your present.
For the big transitions, losses and crossroads that leave you unsure which way to turn.
Counselling and Therapy in Peacehaven
You do not need a diagnosis, a label or a tidy account of what is wrong to book this. That is the whole point of it. The work is present-focused and usually shorter to medium term, often six to twenty sessions, and it starts with what your actual week has been like rather than with your childhood. People arrive saying they are tired all the time, or that they have lost interest in things they used to enjoy, or that they snap at everyone and hate themselves for it. Between us we work out what is underneath that, what can be changed and what needs to be grieved. Some people find a couple of months does the job. Others decide later that they want to go further, and that is a decision for then, not now. Health in Mind takes free self-referrals for structured courses of therapy, and Sussex Mental Healthline is there overnight if things get frightening.
Not sure if it is right for you? A free fifteen-minute call is a no-obligation way to talk it through.
Book a free 15-minute callMy counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Peacehaven, you can refer yourself directly to Health in Mind, the East Sussex NHS Talking Therapies service for free NHS talking therapy, with no GP referral needed.
Seeing me privately usually means you can start sooner and stay with the same counsellor throughout, working at greater depth and pace; the two can run side by side, and I am glad to work alongside any NHS or GP support you already have.
Other local and national support verified for this area includes:
This is not a crisis service. If anyone is in immediate danger call 999. For urgent mental health support, call NHS 111 and choose the mental health option. The Samaritans are free, day or night, on 116 123, or text SHOUT to 85258.
Peacehaven questions
In a private room at Intergen House on Western Road in central Hove. From Peacehaven the coast road runs west through Saltdean and Brighton to the Hove office in around twenty to twenty-five minutes. Every service is also available by secure video across the UK, so you can meet from any private space in Peacehaven or blend the two.
Not at all. Most people who come to this kind of work cannot name it yet. You describe how the last few weeks have gone and we look at it together. Naming the thing is usually something that happens partway through, not a condition of getting in the door.
No. This is shorter, more focused and anchored in the present. It handles what is pressing on you now, over weeks and months rather than years. The longer work is for people who already know the story and want to understand why it repeats.
Yes. A free 15-minute consultation lets you ask whatever you want first. Sessions are £80 / 60 min, with £100 / 90 min or £120 / 120 min if a longer stretch would help. You pay as you go, so nothing is booked as a block.
It is free, you can refer yourself without a GP, and for straightforward anxiety or low mood it is a sound first move. Waiting times vary. If you would rather start soon, or the difficulty does not fit a set programme, private sessions are the alternative.
You can. Some people book a short run over the darkest months and stop in spring, which is a perfectly reasonable use of it. We would also look at what makes the dark months land so hard, so the same thing is less of an ambush next year.
Absolutely. Many Peacehaven clients choose online counselling by secure video, given the twenty to twenty-five minute trip along the coast. It is just as private and effective as coming in, and you can always mix it with occasional sessions in the Hove room when you prefer.
Book a free fifteen-minute call first. It is around twenty to twenty-five minutes by car west along the coast road through Saltdean and Brighton, with the 12 and 14 buses running the same way and a change for Hove. Given the distance, many Peacehaven clients choose online instead.
Fees are £80 for an hour, £100 for ninety minutes and £120 for two hours, with a free fifteen-minute consultation. The NHS offers free talking therapies via your GP or self-referral, though waits can be long, so many Peacehaven clients prefer beginning privately without a delay.
Yes. Out on the clifftops, many Peacehaven clients find online sessions by secure video the easier and equally confidential choice, avoiding the coast-road trip. Others welcome the change of scene the Hove room offers. Evening appointments are available, and you can blend both across the month.
A free fifteen-minute call is the simplest place to start, no obligation, just a chance to see if we are the right fit.
Also available nearby: Saltdean, Newhaven, Rottingdean. See all areas I cover.
Close to this in Peacehaven, there is anxiety counselling, depression counselling and psychotherapy.
You may also find it useful to read about where to start when you cannot name it and how change actually sticks.
Prefer to meet remotely? The same counselling and therapy is available online by secure video across the UK, or see online counselling by region.