About Sue

I am an UKCP Accredited psychotherapist and counsellor, working in Brighton and online.

Over the years of my practice I have become deeply interested in what it is to be human, and the universal themes and experiences which connect us - our need for intimacy and belonging, our pull for meaning making. growth and becoming, our experience of loneliness, boredom, emptiness, a sense of lack and a searching for more - to name but some.

Then there are the wonderfully unique aspects to each of us, in which we are shaped in and through love and loss, and the familial, cultural and societal experiences of our lives - into the who we have become till now, the who’s we don’t want to be and reject, and the who’s we don’t yet know.

Holding the balance between the universal experiences of being human and the uniqueness of each of us shapes me in my work. It enables me to be alongside, not pathologise. To bring personal, as well as theroretical knowing to my work. Our experiences might overlap, or might be widely different and yet we can still know each other and heal in our joint humanity.

Most commonly I meet people at points of distress in their lives. They want something to change, to be fixed. Why wouldn’t they, they want the pain to stop. I see my expertise in holding the balance between attending to the pain and difficulties, whilst also befriending the distress as a guide to go deeper.

We can try and fix the surface, but this might simply result in a surface level solution, or we can bring curiosity to what lies beneath. A life which doesn’t quite fit, patterns of being in, and interpreting our life which restrict us, send us round in circles, force us to keep meeting a familiar internal ceiling, until we work something out, do something differently. Importantly, not externally but internally.

I bring tenderness, listening deeply, everything is allowed, nothing is too messy or too much. Together we will build a therapeutic relationship in which you can feel safe enough to allow yourself to be truly known, and in doing so get to know yourself with more dignity, understanding and self acceptance.

I am passionate about this work because I know that the more we allow ourselves to know of the experiences that have shaped us, the freer we become from their unconscious pull to define us. Of course there are external factors to our distress, but we too have a role in orchestrating our reality, and there is ultimately something freeing and enlivening in the choices accepting this lays open.

If you commit to working with me we will understand this intellectually, intuitively, emotionally - in an embodied re-balancing into a life in which you have a richer set of choices to live more truthfully and uniquely as you.

If something you’ve read connects with you, or your interest has been sparked, I’d love to hear from you.

Bye for now.