Find a Bereavement Counsellor in Portslade

I offer counselling and psychotherapy in the Brighton & Hove area. I’m experienced in helping people with depression/anxiety/ attachment difficulties/ sexual & domestic abuse, relationship issues and have an interest in people coping with the symptoms of personality disorder. Please contact me by phone/email and I will respond as soon as I can. Thank you.

My name is Tom Maxwell and I am Body-psychotherapist and massage therapist based in Brighton & Hove. I trained in Body-psychotherapy and Biodynamic massage therapy at the Cambridge Body Psychotherapy Centre. ​Prior to working as a Body-psychotherapist I spent over a decade working for the YMCA as a support worker. It was both a challenging and rewarding role providing a strong foundation for retraining as a psychotherapist.

My aim is to give you the time and space to talk these issues through. I focus on the person and what they want to achieve through therapy rather than look for a diagnosis. I can help you to explore your emotions, create new insights, facilitate change in your life, and break troubling thought or behaviour patterns. In a nutshell, my personal therapeutic approach is pragmatic, compassionate, and individually-tailored.

I help people who are struggling with anxiety, depression and feeling stuck, through a powerful combination of: - creating a personalised toolbox to support you in daily living and - weekly sessions to do a deeper dive to explore what might be holding you back I start by working with you to see what tools you would like to explore straight away to resource yourself. This is a highly personalised approach;

I offer psychotherapy for individuals and couples and also specialise in treatment for eating disorders for young people and adults. My approach is psycho-analytic which means that the time it takes for a course of therapy may be longer than other counselling approaches and CBT. For many people the reasons for their difficulties need a depth approach where less conscious aspects of early experience can be thoroughly understood and worked through.

I work to enable a person to be their natural self, to discover more and more how life wants them to be, even though life may have been full of difficult circumstances which have left their mark, and sometimes even destroying a person’s ability to live effectively and in harmony with themselves. I use as many channels available for exploration as possible to enable the psyche to speak.

EXPERIENCE I have worked in Brighton and Hove as a Counselling Professional for a number of years. As well as running a private practice in Brighton and Hove, I work with adults as a counsellor for The Rock Clinic and The Holistic Health Centre and I have previously worked at the University of Sussex Student Counselling Service and in Mental Health Support for Brighton Institute of Modern Music (BIMM).

I am BACP registered psychotherapist qualified in a variety of humanistic modalities and offer a ‘whole person’ healing approach in my practice. This includes all of your emotional, physical and energetic process by integrating psychotherapy and holistic healing practices together to encompass the mind body connection. I hold the universal belief that ‘we all have the power to heal ourselves’.

I am an integratively trained counsellor which, to the layperson, simply means I can work with a number of different psychological approaches and theories. This flexibility allows me to select the approach most suited to each client’s needs. We all have our own individual style of communicating, listening and conveying how we feel and what we are thinking. Understanding the personal life-view and values of each client is what makes for a powerful experience in the counselling relationship and allows real shift and freedom to take place through the work.

Effective therapy - when you need to feel better quickly