Brightoncounselling.org
Autism supportive Person Centred Counselling
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing)
My work background
Since my original training, as a Person-Centred counsellor in 2002, I have been committed to creating safe spaces for people to heal.
I am accredited by the BACP; with 21 years experience of counselling. I was previously an accredited family mediator with 15 years experience of mediation and parent support with parents & teens and couples divorcing, separating or dissolving civil partnerships; within statutory and charitable sectors. I bring insights from these other areas of work into my counselling practice.
Training and Qualifications
Higher National Diploma in Person-Centred Counselling 2004
Additional training in Suicide prevention , Trauma training with Babette Rothschild, Tony Buckley and Miriam Taylor
Post-Graduate Diploma in Systemic Practice 2010 to work with families
Trained and accredited to deliver Positive Parenting Groups to parents of 2-12 year olds and teens
Qualified and Accredited Family Mediator - Family Mediation Council 2012
Post Graduate Diploma in Contemporary Trauma Practice - Developing Competence in Applying Neuroscience to Therapy February 2020 - January 2021
Registered and Accredited Member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy BACP, adhering to their ethical framework; including attending regular continuing professional development and clinical supervision
EMDR fully trained practitioner and member of EMDR UK and Sussex group-since 2021
IFS UK (Internal Family Systems) Level 1 Training-2024
I have full professional liability insurance
CPD
‘Successful practice when counselling clients on the Autism Spectrum’ - May 2019 Aspire Training
‘In the Shadows of Shame’ training day with Robert Downes - January 2020
Phil Mollon - The Disintegrating Self -Understanding and working with adults with ADHD and/or autistic spectrum traits - April 2020
Into the Heartwood-Intentional Nature Experiencing - Eco therapy training day - April 2020
Confer - Post Slavery Syndrome. Exploring the clinical aspects of the trans Atlantic Slave Trade - June 2020
Post Graduate Diploma in Contemporary Trauma Practice - Developing Competence in Applying Neuroscience to Therapy February 2020 - January 2021
Internal Family Systems: A Step by step guide through clinical applications - PESI training
2121-22 - EMDR trained and member EMDR UK and Sussex Group
May 2022 - EMDR therapy and suicide training day
September 2022 - Sussex based EMDR therapists sharing event
November 2022 - Preoccupied Attachment: Fear of Abandonment and Chronic Insecurity training day
March 2023-Managing therapeutic endings for clients with attachment difficulties
March 2023-How to Identify and Treat Dissociation (Even When It’s Subtle) NICABM
EMDR UK Association Annual Conference & AGM 2023 (Glasgow) Friday, 24th & Saturday, 25th March 2023
IFS UK (Internal Family Systems) Level 1 Training-2024
Counselling Experience
4 Sight Sussex (previously West Sussex Association for the Blind)
Terrance Higgins Trust, South With people affected by HIV
Cardinal Newman RC Secondary school, Hove School counsellor with 11-19 year olds
Brighton Women's Centre low cost counselling service
Mankind UK As a sexual abuse counsellor
Hendrickx Associates and in Private Practice since 2018
Trauma Counselling
Autism Supportive Counselling
With Amber Redish
Online UK, Ireland and EU or room based in Brighton, UK
“Amber is a very kind counsellor who sees you as a whole person. She is especially helpful for working with people on the autism spectrum, but anyone could benefit from her approach. I had issues relating to anxiety and previous bad relationship experiences. Amber’s sessions really helped me especially in setting boundaries, and my anxiety reduced as a result. Amber is friendly, non-judgemental and understanding. I would recommend her whole heartedly to anyone looking for help
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“The essence of trauma isn’t events, but aloneness within them”
How I Work as a Counsellor
I value individual difference, finding your own path, connection and relationship. I strongly believe people can be empowered to find their own answers.
I know I don't have all the answers, although I might have a suggestion or two to help you along by sharing psycho educational resources. I work carefully and supportively with people weighed down by shame and low self esteem.
I am ok to sit with people in chaos or stuckness and I am not afraid to be afraid, or to walk into a dark place. I support people to safely navigate difficult emotional or traumatic histories, reconnect and add to their inner resources; developing self compassion and resilience along the way.
It is important to me that people feel welcome and able to work at a pace that suits them. I provide a space of genuine empathic understanding and I hope you will find me a warm and approachable human being.
“Our right hemisphere orients us to the space between, the relational space, as it is unfolding moment to moment..The flow of novel experience comes to us here as rich streams of continuously changing felt sense in the body. This perspective is aware of the uncertainty of the next moment and the next, and keenly attuned to both the suffering and the potential meaningfulness of life.. It is here that we make and sustain living connections with one another, and here where the guiding vision of a humane society might arise”
“But, oh, to get involved in the exchange
Of human emotions
Is ever so, ever so satisfying”
