Welcome
We are three experienced therapists with a contemporary approach to psychotherapy. We offer a wide range of expertise in working with people experiencing distress by tailoring the treatment to your particular needs.
Whatever is bringing you to therapy, perhaps a stressful life event, ongoing emotional difficulties or simply curiosity about how therapy may enrich your life, we are here to listen and discuss with you how we might help.
Talking to a therapist regularly establishes a trusting relationship that can help you get to the root causes of your distress to free stuck feelings and repetitive behaviours.
We believe that therapy is always influenced by the context of the times we live in and our approach to psychotherapy appreciates that while our histories and internal worlds impact us, so may external factors such as discrimination and social inequality.
Therapy can help with many experiences such as childhood and adult trauma, ADHD and neurodiversity, anxiety, eating disorders, body dysphoria as well as relationship issues of all kinds
Please click the links below to read more in-depth information about each of us and ways to get in touch.
Our Therapists
Ros Howell
I am an accredited BACP psychodynamic psychotherapeutic counsellor working in central Brighton with adults and older teens. I initially trained as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist 17 years ago, working with children and families as well as older people living with dementia. I have also previously practised DBT, a treatment that aims to offer skills to help manage overwhelming emotions and impulsive behaviour and is often recommended for people who have received a borderline personality disorder diagnosis.
Gioconda Vasquez
Hello, my name is Gioconda Vasquez and I am a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. I initially trained as a psychodynamic counsellor and then undertook a four-year further training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with the Guild of Psychotherapists. My background is in anthropology in Ecuador. I then moved to the UK for further education in development and social transformation at the University of Sussex which took me to research medical anthropology in South Africa.
Paul Salvage
I am a UKCP Registered Psychotherapist, qualifying with a master's in Psychotherapy in 2014. I am also a qualified psychodynamic supervisor. Since then, I have worked full-time as a psychotherapist working with a range of people with various difficulties who have benefitted from psychotherapeutic treatment. My approach to therapy involves creating a supportive confidential space where you can come regularly and to try and put words to what is going on for you, - hence, “the talking cure”.
What issues can counselling help with?
People come to us for help with a wide range of issues. Here are a few of the more common difficulties that can be supported through counselling:
Stress
Trauma
Depression
Relationship problems
Problems with confidence or self-esteem
Anger
Anxiety
Problems with addiction
Sexuality
Post-traumatic stress
Grief, loss or bereavement
Work or retirement
Abuse
Family or school life
Migration
ADHD
Adolescence
Location
We are based in Brighton and are easily accessible from the surrounding areas such as Worthing, Haywards Heath and Lewes.
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