Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Counselling and Therapy · Southwick
Counselling and Therapy for Southwick and the surrounding area, in person or online. Southwick, set around its green between Portslade and Shoreham, looks out over the harbour and canal. From my room in nearby Hove I offer a calm, confidential space to do this work.

In and around Southwick
Life in Southwick
Plenty of people in the terraces around Fishersgate and Kingston Lane have never considered counselling and would not know how to explain what has changed. You get up, you go to work, you do what needs doing, and somewhere in the last year the pleasure went out of it. Perhaps you are shorter with people than you used to be. Perhaps you have started dreading things you used to enjoy. It does not seem serious enough to make a fuss about and there is no name for it. That is precisely the situation counselling and therapy is built to take, no label required.
Areas covered
Wherever you are in Southwick, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
Official figures for Southwick, for context rather than as a description of you.
24.5% 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 14.5% 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 127.2 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.
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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.
Practically it is one of the easier journeys: ten to fifteen minutes east into Hove by road, or a couple of stops on the train, with the sessions held in person in a private room. A weekly slot at a steady time works best for most. When shifts change or a week collapses, online by secure video keeps the appointment rather than losing it, and you can move between the two.
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 Southwick
There is no entry test for this. No diagnosis, no referral, nothing you need to have worked out in advance. The sessions stay with the present and generally run shorter to medium term, often somewhere between six and twenty, with the length looked at as you go rather than fixed at the beginning. People arrive with sleep that has gone, an irritability that is frightening them a little, a bereavement that will not settle, or nothing they can name at all. The job of the early sessions is to find out what is actually happening, which is often not what it looked like from outside. Some people finish there. Others discover a longer pattern underneath and choose to go further. In 2022/23, 24.5% of adults across the area reported a high anxiety score, against an England average of 23.8%. NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies offers free structured courses on self-referral, and Sussex Mental Healthline is available through the night.
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 Southwick, you can refer yourself directly to NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies 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.
Southwick questions
In a private room at Intergen House on Western Road in central Hove. Southwick is around ten to fifteen minutes east of the office along the coast road, or two stops by train to Hove. Every service is also available by secure video across the UK, so you can meet from any private space in Southwick or blend the two.
You will not. A large proportion of people who start have never spoken to a counsellor before and expect it to feel strange. It is a conversation, not an examination. There is no jargon to learn and no correct way to sit in the chair.
This is the shorter, present-focused option that helps with what is pressing now, over weeks and months. The deeper work is open-ended and goes back into how patterns formed, over a year or more. Beginning here is often the sensible order of things.
Sixty minutes costs £80 / 60 min. There is also £100 / 90 min and £120 / 120 min for longer sessions. Nothing is charged for the initial 15-minute consultation, and you settle each session individually, so you can stop whenever it feels right.
It is a sound idea. NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies takes self-referrals directly and costs nothing, working to set courses for anxiety and depression. If the wait is long, or your difficulty does not fit that shape, private sessions are the other option.
Late-afternoon and early-evening appointments exist and, given how short the trip into Hove is from here, they are among the easiest to keep. If a shift overruns, that session can be picked up online rather than written off for the week.
Only around ten to fifteen minutes east along the coast road by car or bus. Southwick Station is also a couple of stops from Hove on the main line, with a short walk to Western Road. If travelling in is inconvenient, online video sessions are just as effective.
Only around ten to fifteen minutes east along the coast road by car or bus, after a free fifteen-minute call to begin. Southwick Station is also a couple of stops from Hove on the main line, with a short walk to Western Road. If travelling in is awkward, counselling runs online.
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 Southwick clients prefer beginning privately without a delay.
Yes. With Hove so close, many Southwick clients simply pop in, but online video is just as confidential and effective for busy or difficult weeks. Evening appointments are available, and being nearby you can freely mix the short trip in with meeting from home 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: Portslade, Shoreham-by-Sea, Hove. See all areas I cover.
People who come for counselling and therapy in Southwick often also look at anxiety counselling, depression counselling and psychotherapy.
If you would like to read more first, I have written about how change actually sticks and where to start when you cannot name it.
Prefer to meet remotely? The same counselling and therapy is available online by secure video across the UK, or see online counselling by region.