Trauma Counselling in Hassocks

In a private room at Intergen House on Western Road in central Hove. From Hassocks a short train ride or a fifteen to twenty minute drive over the Downs brings you to Hove. Every service is also available by secure video across the UK, so you can meet from any private space in Hassocks or blend the two.

It works with the way the memory is held in the mind rather than with its content, so you can keep the details entirely to yourself. You stay awake, relaxed and in control throughout, and you can stop at any point. Most people find it far less daunting than expected.

The rates run £80 / 60 min, £100 / 90 min and £120 / 120 min. For this work the longer sessions are sometimes useful, giving space to settle before you travel back. The 15-minute consultation that comes first is free and puts you under no obligation.

It does, including trauma-focused therapies, and you can refer yourself without seeing a GP first. Waits move about through the year; emergency hospital admissions for self-harm in West Sussex were 127.2 per 100,000 in 2023/24 against 117 nationally. Registering there while starting privately covers both bases.

It can, provided you have a private room and an hour that will not be interrupted. Plenty of this work happens online. We would agree beforehand what you do after the session ends, because the twenty minutes afterwards matter as much when nobody is travelling.

Yes, and it is a common situation in a small place. Trigger points tied to particular locations respond well once the memory itself has been processed. We would also plan, at your pace, how you want to handle passing it while the work is still going on.

No. The Rewind Technique I often draw on is calm and non-intrusive, so you never have to relive or speak the detail aloud. We work entirely at your pace, in my Hove room fifteen minutes from Hassocks, or online, and you stay in control.

We start with a free fifteen-minute call, with no pressure to explain, then a first session. Trains from Hassocks Station reach Hove in around fifteen minutes, or driving over the Downs takes fifteen to twenty. If travelling feels too much, online video is always available.

Private sessions are £80 for sixty minutes, £100 for ninety and £120 for two hours, after a free consultation. You can self-refer to free NHS Talking Therapies for West Sussex; waits vary, and seeing me privately means gentle, sooner trauma work at a pace you control.

Many value the containment of the room for trauma work, though some feel safer on video at home; both suit the gentle Rewind Technique. The quick train makes either straightforward. You lead the pace, with evening and weekend slots to fit around work.