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Psychotherapy · Southwick
Psychotherapy in Southwick
Psychotherapy 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.
BACP registered member25+ years of experienceLived experience
ConfidentialA safe, private space
Person-centredThe therapy fits you
In and around Southwick
Psychotherapy for Southwick, at a glance
- Known for
- Southwick Green, the canal and Southwick Hill
- Area
- Adur & Worthing, East/West Sussex
- Getting to the Hove room
- Southwick is around ten to fifteen minutes east of the office along the coast road, or two stops by train to Hove.
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies
- Format
- In person at my private Hove room, or by secure video UK-wide.
Life in Southwick
Why do people in Southwick reach out?
Shame is a quiet thing and it keeps people going for decades without ever being examined. From the streets above Southwick Hill and the roads around Manor Hall Road, people come for longer work carrying a conviction they have never tested: that there is something fundamentally wrong with them, and that everything they have built is a cover story. They are usually functioning well. Good job, decent family, church at St Michael's on occasion, nothing anyone would flag. Underneath is a running commentary that has been going since primary school. Psychotherapy is where that gets addressed at its root instead of being outrun for another ten years.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Southwick
Southwick GreenManor Hall RoadKingston LaneOld Barn WayThe GardensFishersgateSouthwick Hill
Wherever you are in Southwick, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Southwick
Official figures for Southwick, for context rather than as a description of you.
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).
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).
Reviewed June 2026.
What is psychotherapy, in practice?
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.
Rather than say the same thing on every page, the substance lives on everything on psychotherapy, with session lengths and fees for the practical questions and professional standards and registration for registration and ethics.
What happens in a session?
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.
This is work measured in months, so the arrangement matters. Most people take the same weekly hour in Hove, ten to fifteen minutes east by road or two stops on the train, and protect it in the diary the way they would a standing commitment. Secure video keeps the sequence intact when illness, weather or work makes the trip impossible, which over a long course of therapy makes a substantial difference.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What can psychotherapy in Southwick help with?
Attachment and relationships
How early bonds still shape the way you connect now.
Identity and self-worth
Working with a harsh inner voice and a shaky sense of self.
The past in the present
When something unresolved keeps replaying beneath the surface.
Beyond symptom relief
Understanding the root, not just quieting the symptom.
Lasting change
Insight that holds, so change does not slip back.
Psychotherapy in Southwick
Why people in Southwick come for psychotherapy
Where shorter counselling helps you manage what is happening, this work asks how you came to hold yourself in such low regard and what has been organised around that belief. Early relationships are the material: what you were praised for, what got you ignored, what you concluded about your own value before you were old enough to question it. Attachment, identity and shame are slow subjects. The important things are rarely said in the first months, and progress arrives unevenly rather than in a straight line. It suits people who have had brief therapy that helped for a while, or who can see the same collapse in confidence returning under different circumstances. The rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 127.2 per 100,000 in 2023/24, compared with 117 across England. Free shorter NHS courses are available alongside through West Sussex Talking Therapies, and West Sussex Mind offers peer support and groups near you.
A free, unhurried first step
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 callFinding support in Southwick
My 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:
If you need urgent help now
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
Psychotherapy in Southwick: common questions
Where do Southwick sessions take place, and can I meet online instead?
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.
I function perfectly well. Would anyone take a problem like mine seriously?
Yes. Functioning and suffering coexist very comfortably, and people who cope well are often the last to ask for help. A life that works on paper and feels hollow underneath is a legitimate reason for this work, not a reason to keep quiet.
How long before I notice anything change?
Some relief usually comes early, simply from saying things out loud. Real movement in a belief that old generally takes many months, and there are stretches where little appears to happen. It is worth knowing that at the start rather than being surprised by it.
Do the fees change if the work runs for years?
They stay constant: £80 / 60 min for the weekly hour, with £100 / 90 min and £120 / 120 min if longer sessions suit you. Payment is per session throughout, breaks are agreed in advance, and the free consultation happens before anything is booked.
Could I get long-term therapy through the NHS in West Sussex?
Not in this form. West Sussex Talking Therapies provides free, shorter, structured courses for anxiety and depression on self-referral, which helps a great many people. Extended work on shame and early attachment sits outside what that service is commissioned to deliver.
Do I have to talk about my parents?
Only when and if it becomes relevant, and at your pace. Some people find their family history central and others barely touch it. What matters is following what is actually driving the pattern, which is not always where you would first expect to look.
Southwick is close by, does that help with regular psychotherapy?
It does. Deeper work benefits from a steady rhythm, and being only around ten to fifteen minutes east, or a couple of train stops from Hove, makes weekly sessions simple to sustain. When travel does not suit on a given week, online video keeps the work moving.
How do I start regular psychotherapy, and how do I get to Hove from Southwick?
We begin with a free fifteen-minute call to see if deeper, ongoing work suits you, then set a weekly time. Southwick makes this easy: ten to fifteen minutes east along the coast road, or a couple of stops from Southwick Station to Hove, with parking near the room.
What does ongoing psychotherapy cost, and would the NHS fund it in Southwick?
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 Southwick clients seeking sustained psychotherapy with a consistent therapist usually choose private sessions.
For weekly psychotherapy, can I mix in person and online from Southwick, and are evenings possible?
Yes. Being close by, many Southwick clients keep a steady weekly slot in the Hove room, using secure video when work or family makes coming in hard, without losing the thread. Evening appointments help protect that continuity around a busy schedule week to week.
Psychotherapy in Southwick, whenever you are ready
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.
If psychotherapy is not quite what you are looking for, counselling and therapy, depression counselling and trauma counselling may fit better in Southwick.
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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.