Brightoncounselling.org

Person Centred Counselling (inclusive of Autistic and Neurodiverse people)

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing)

IFS (Internal Family Systems)

I am a member of the NCPS (National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society) Accredited Register. This register is accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.

How I Work as a Counsellor

Since qualifying as a Person-Centred counsellor in 2005, I have been committed to creating safe spaces for people to heal.

I value individual difference, finding your own path, connection and relationship. I strongly believe people can be empowered to find their own answers.

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 work carefully and supportively with people weighed down by shame and low self esteem and 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.

The majority of my work is with people who have experienced trauma; including in early childhood or education. I support people across the lifespan from 16+ to elders; pregnant women and new parents, those struggling with transitions, demanding family situations or relationship difficulties; including previously poor experiences of therapy.

I regularly support people diagnosed, undiagnosed or self ID with ASD/Asperger’s/ADHD. It is important to me that people feel safely welcome and able to work at a pace that suits them. I provide a space of genuine empathic understanding & I hope you will find me a kind, warm and approachable human being.

As well as close, empathic listening I offer EMDR and IFS or ‘parts’ work. These methods treat the symptoms of trauma to reduce suffering, improve daily functioning and increase self compassion, clarity, creativity and confidence.

Please note I generally respond to new enquiries on Mondays before lunchtime.

Training and Qualifications

  • Higher National Diploma in Person-Centred Counselling 2005

  • Additional training in Suicide prevention

  • Trauma training with Babette Rothschild

  • Post-Graduate Diploma in Systemic Practice 2010

  • 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 2021

  • Registered and Accredited Member of National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society; adhering to their ethical framework 2021

  • 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

Counselling Experience

 

Person Centred Counselling

Inclusive of Autistic and Neurodiverse people

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’

‘I came to Amber feeling confused, frightened, existentially bereft and totally burnt out. She helped me uncover and reconnect to aspects of myself that I had lost contact with. Amber has an amazing instinct for working at a pace and at an emotional level that feels comfortable. For the first time in my life I felt able to express thoughts and emotions that I had previously felt were too embarrassing, unfamiliar, ‘wrong’ or overwhelming. It is only because of Amber’s immense skill and compassion that I felt able to visit difficult places and treat myself more kindly’.

‘I came to Amber to deal with trauma. I found a safe and compassionate space that validated me as an autistic person and allowed me to do so much more healing, growth and change than I’d thought possible’.

’‘As a late diagnosed autistic woman I have sampled years of varying therapies for a multitude of difficulties, but never EMDR, I’d read many positive things amongst the autistic community about EMDR and the impactful effects it has on people, but especially those on the spectrum. This is how I came to find Amber. From initial consultation to working through the EMDR sessions, I found Amber a pleasure to work with. She has a calm and safe aura about her, which made working on difficult issues much easier, and sometimes enjoyable! I can truly say, hand on heart, that some deep rooted issues I’ve been carrying around with me like a lead balloon and been severed at the core. I feel lighter, less reactive, freer and more put together than I believe Ive ever felt.Working with Amber has been life changing. I’ll remember my experience fondly and wouldn’t hesitate to work with her again if I needed. 5 stars! Highly recommend’”
— For more testimonials, please see my counselling and EMDR feedback pages.
“The essence of trauma isn’t events, but aloneness within them”
— Bonnie Baddenoch

“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”
— Bonnie Badenoch
“But, oh, to get involved in the exchange
Of human emotions
Is ever so, ever so satisfying”
— Bjork