The Team

Kim Crewe | Brighton & Horsham

Kim has been qualified as a therapist since 1995 and works as a counsellor to individuals and couples.

Kim has trained as a Financial coach with Wise Monkey Financial Coaching, she can help individuals and couples with: spending plans, understanding their emotional relationship to money, achieving their financial and life goals for the future, building a budget, preparation for separation or divorce and pre and post nuptial arrangements.

Lorraine Gillingham | Brighton & Horsham

Lorraine is an experienced counsellor with expertise in working with both individuals and couples. She originally trained as a Psychodynamic Counsellor in 1997, since that time she has developed her counselling work to include other counselling models. This is often referred to as an Integrative Counselling approach: Lorraine offers a range of approaches to best suit each individual client.

Robert Snell | Brighton

Robert is an analytic psychotherapist – see www.robertsnellpsychotherapy.uk – who works with a wide range of clients and their difficulties, both in the short and the longer term. As a former secondary school and university counsellor, he has particular experience of working with young adults. He is also available for supervision and consultancy.

Associates

Karen Bagley | Horsham

Karen is a down to earth and enthusiastic Psychotherapist who is now in the final year of training to a Level 7 qualification as a Transactional Analyst Psychotherapist. She is also working towards attaining her Diploma in Counselling level 6. Karen attained the Intermediate and Advanced Counselling Skills certificate in 2014.

Paul Byford | Horsham

Paul is a BACP accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist who draws on his experience and knowledge to provide therapy in a safe, supportive and confidential manner. Paul believes in the therapeutic relationship between the counsellor and client to be key, built on trust so that a shared open alliance can form. Carl Rogers (Psychologist 1902-1987) was one of the Founders of the client centred approach which came away from the thinking that the Therapist was the expert. “This process of the good life is not, I am convinced a life for the fainthearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more of one’s potentialities. It involves launching oneself fully into the stream of life” (Rogers 1961) Mental health impacts on one in four people in the UK during the course of their lives and a therapeutic intervention can be very beneficial to those who suffer from depression, anxiety, bereavement, PTSD, OCD, alcohol and drug misuse, addiction, low self-esteem, panic attacks/phobias, stress and health anxiety.

Laura Davies | Horsham

Laura has a Postgraduate Clinical Diploma in Counselling and specialises in Transactional Analysis (TA). She qualified in 2013 and undertakes regular professional development in order to keep updated with current issues and to continue her learning. She is BACP accredited and a member of UKATA & EATA.

Cressida Ellis | Brighton

Cressida is an Integrative Counsellor/ Psychotherapist, as well as having further trained to become an EMDR therapist. She’s worked for the last five years in an agency setting, and also sees adults and adolescents in her private practice in Hove. Whilst training she undertook a school counselling placement at a primary school in Brighton, using art and play therapy, which she also found very rewarding.

Jill Fardell | Brighton

As an experienced qualified counsellor, Jill works with adults of all ages and backgrounds, who seek counselling for many different reasons. These include: anxiety, depression, stress, difficulties with relationships, low self-esteem, loss of confidence and sense of identity, trauma and abuse in childhood, grief and loss.

Sophie Fletcher | Brighton

Since qualifying as an art therapist in 1996 Sophie has worked individually with children, teenagers, and adults in a variety of settings.

She initially worked as an art therapist in an NHS adult mental health service for ten years, and for the past nine years has worked in primary and secondary education as a school counsellor, as well as in private practice.

William Low | Horsham

William’s career for several years was in the travel industry, latterly as an Area Manager. His final corporate role was as an HR & Training Manager for a subsidiary of a FTSE100 company.

He changed career in 1999 to retrain as a counsellor and qualified with a Diploma in counselling in 2001. He has worked in various settings since then.

Christina Morris | Brighton

Since qualifying in 2007 Christina has gained extensive experience working with children, young people and adults. She worked for two years for a counselling service in a local university and then worked as a counsellor for an organisation who provided counselling in primary and secondary schools. Christina also worked in private practice with adult clients during this time.

Julia Normington | Horsham

Julia is a fully qualified psychotherapeutic counsellor and works with adults of all ages, including individuals and couples. She offers a non-judgmental and empathic therapeutic space where current difficulties, stressful, anxious or confused feelings in relationships, at home or at work and priorities in your life can be talked about.

Sheila Perkins | Horsham

Sheila works using a range of therapeutic models including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT); Person Centred Therapy; Brief Solution Focussed Therapy and integrate the approaches to suit the needs of the individual.

She has over ten years experience of working in the NHS with both adults and secondary school aged children, who present with a variety of issues including people with generalized anxiety and sleep difficulties.

Paula Saunders | Brighton

Paula is a Psychodynamic Counsellor who takes a collaborative, creative approach with clients. She was inspired to become a counsellor due to her experience of working for a number of years for charities including The Samaritans, Cruse Bereavement Care and Childline and her belief in and experience of the therapeutic benefits of a safe, confidential space to explore how we are feeling through a trusting, supportive relationship.

Debbie Singleton | Horsham

Debbie is a qualified psychotherapist with a Post Graduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and a Certificate in CBT from WPF Therapy. She works with adult clients with variety of problems in both private practice and the charitable sector.

Clinical Psychologists

Dr. Claire Hepworth | Horsham

Dr Claire Hepworth, BSc, MSc, PhD, DClinPsy, is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Trained Health psychologist and DBT Therapist with the British Psychological Society, Division of Clinical Psychology, and Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical) with the Health Professions Council. Following her BSc Psychology at the University of Sheffield, MSc Health Psychology at the University of Southampton & PhD at the University of Southampton and a number of roles as an Assistant Psychologist across Dorset and Hampshire, Claire completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, working across South London and Maudsley NHS Trust.

Dr Fiona Garratt | Horsham

Dr Fiona Garratt (BSC, CPsychol) is an experienced Chartered Clinical Psychologist working with Children and Families. Fiona’s main model of working is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) but she also draws on both family therapy and psychotherapy models. She works with children and young people who are experiencing difficulties with: phobias; anxieties; obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD); emotional and mood difficulties; sleep difficulties. She also works with parents and families on: behaviour management; parent-child relationship difficulties; relationships within foster and adoptive families. She can offer advice and consultation to parents, teachers and other professionals as well as ongoing therapeutic work with children and/or their parents.