Recurring patterns
When the same difficulty keeps returning in different forms.
Psychotherapy · Peacehaven
Psychotherapy 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
A fair number of people moved out to this stretch of clifftop for a fresh start: cheaper than the city, sea air, room to breathe near the Meridian Monument and the open water. What surprises them is how much came with them. The same difficulty in trusting anyone, the same collapse when someone is disappointed in them, the same sense of being on the outside of every group. A new address does not touch that, because it was never about the address. Peacehaven can be a good life and still be the place where you notice, finally, that the pattern is yours and it has been running a very long time.
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.
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).
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).
Reviewed June 2026.
Psychotherapy here goes a little deeper and usually a little longer than counselling, into the patterns, beliefs and early relationships that shape how you feel now, so change is understood at the root and holds.
The method travels; only the geography changes. everything on psychotherapy explains it properly, how I work, sessions and fees answers the practical questions, and qualifications, registration and ethics shows how the practice is held to account.
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.
Long-term work needs a slot you can rely on, so most people take the same hour each week in Hove and keep it through the year. Twenty-five minutes along the coast becomes ordinary rather than an event, and the drive back gives the session somewhere to land. Secure video covers the weeks when weather, illness or work makes the journey impossible, which matters more in a long piece of work than in a short one.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
When the same difficulty keeps returning in different forms.
How early bonds still shape the way you connect now.
Working with a harsh inner voice and a shaky sense of self.
When something unresolved keeps replaying beneath the surface.
Understanding the root, not just quieting the symptom.
Insight that holds, so change does not slip back.
Psychotherapy in Peacehaven
Psychotherapy is the deeper and slower end of this work. It is for people who have already tried something shorter, or who can see plainly that the same thing keeps coming round every few years wearing different clothes. Rather than managing the current difficulty, it follows it back: to early relationships, to what you learned about your own worth before you were old enough to argue with it, to the attachments that taught you whether other people can be relied on. That takes time. Sessions can end without resolution and the important material often surfaces months in. What changes is not that you get better at coping, but that the old arrangement loosens its hold. Emergency admissions for self-harm here reached 192.7 per 100,000 in 2023/24, well above the England average of 117. Health in Mind offers briefer NHS courses of therapy alongside, and STAR, the East Sussex drug and alcohol recovery service, is there if substance use is part of the picture.
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.
Usually that the difficulty travelled with you, because it lives in how you relate to yourself and other people rather than in a postcode. That is not a failure of the move. It is a fairly reliable sign that the thing worth working on is older and deeper than the last few years.
Longer than short-term counselling. Many people work for a year or two, some for longer, and it is reviewed as you go rather than fixed at the start. There is no set endpoint imposed on you. You would decide, in conversation, when the work has done what it needed to.
No. It stays at £80 / 60 min whatever the length of the course, with £100 / 90 min and £120 / 120 min available when a longer session is useful. Payment is per session rather than in advance, and a free 15-minute consultation comes first.
It is not really built for it. NHS Talking Therapies runs shorter structured courses aimed at anxiety and depression, which it does well. Open-ended work on attachment, identity and long-standing patterns falls outside that remit, which is where private psychotherapy has its place.
Yes, because the session moves online rather than being cancelled when the road west is grim. Continuity is one of the things that makes deep work possible, so a fixed weekly hour is protected wherever you happen to attend it from.
Yes. With the coast road taking twenty to twenty-five minutes, many Peacehaven clients do most of their deeper work by secure video, visiting the Hove room occasionally. Online sessions are equally private and effective, and a steady weekly rhythm is easier to sustain that way.
We begin with a free fifteen-minute call to see if deeper, ongoing work suits you, then set a weekly time. From Peacehaven the coast road west takes twenty to twenty-five minutes by car, or the 12 and 14 buses with a change, though many keep continuity more easily online.
Each session is £80 for sixty minutes, with £100 and £120 options for longer work, after a free consultation. The NHS rarely funds open-ended depth work, favouring short courses, so Peacehaven clients seeking sustained psychotherapy with a consistent therapist usually choose private sessions.
Yes. Given the clifftop distance, many Peacehaven clients keep a fixed weekly slot mostly by secure video, coming into the Hove room when convenient, which keeps deeper work steady without a long trip each week. Evening appointments help fit that rhythm around work and family.
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.
Also available in Peacehaven: counselling and therapy, depression counselling and trauma counselling.
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Prefer to meet remotely? The same psychotherapy is available online by secure video across the UK, or see online counselling by region.