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Many of our team also offer consultancy and clinical supervision. We work with individuals, couples and families and also offer consultancy to organisations.

Highly experienced counselling, psychotherapy and consultancy practice offering individual, couple, family and group psychotherapy to children, adolescents and adults. Brighton & Hove Psychotherapy is comprised of a team of highly skilled counsellors and psychotherapists with clinics in Hove and Lewes, East Sussex. Our skills and ways of working are different, providing clients with a clear choice

in which approach would suit them best. Our differences are brought together under the ethos that each and every person has the potential to find their way through their problems, thereby enabling them to make more conscious choices.

21/08/2026

What types of emotional and psychological issues typically bring a person to seek out psychotherapy? In this video Sam Jahara, UKCP registered psychotherapist talks about some of the more common issues that bring a person to psychotherapy and how these presenting issues are often symptoms of deeper issues. Psychotherapy is a process of uncovering and making sense of what you feel, why you feel the way you do and then in helping you to move through those emotions.

View the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY6_pzyFoT0

20/08/2026

At Brighton and Hove Psychotherapy we believe that the mind and body are intricately linked. That what is felt in one is felt and, in the case of the body, expressed, in the other. Our experience is that too many practitioners focus purely on the mind of the client and ignore the body. Yet, research increasingly shows the mind and body as one emotional system.

Read more: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/types-of-therapy/body-orientated-psychotherapy/

19/08/2026

📰 IN THE PRESS

We’re delighted to see Mark featured in Patient, sharing his thoughts on “exercise snacking” and why small, manageable bursts of movement can be a gamechanger for those who struggle with all-or-nothing thinking around exercise.

Mark was asked to comment on the psychology behind exercise habits and how perfectionism can sometimes turn something positive into another source of pressure.

Read the full article here: https://patient.info/features/healthy-living/exercise-snacking-how-small-bursts-of-movement-can-boost-your-mindset

18/08/2026

"Most, if not all, therapists enter this profession with deep emotional wounds and with the unconscious hope that helping others will help to heal them. This hope is, at best, naive and, at worst, dangerous." Sam Jahara

To read the full article: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/blog/the-unanalysed-therapist/

17/08/2026

The fear of motherhood: understanding anxiety about becoming a parent by Joseph Bailey

One major decision in any adult’s life is choosing whether or not to have children. For some, it can be more a question of when than if; perhaps they’ve always imagined having kids or just known for their entire lives that motherhood is for them. For others, the pull to have one’s own children never…

Click to read more: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/blog/the-fear-of-motherhood-understanding-anxiety-about-becoming-a-parent/

12/08/2026

Meet our team - Shiraz El Showk

I provide a secure, confidential space that is supportive, non-judgemental and appropriately boundaried. The therapeutic alliance aims to guide and empower you, from a place of warmth, curiosity, challenge and respect.

My therapeutic stance is relational. I consider the developing relationship between the client and therapist as integral to the transformative work and outcomes of therapy.

My clinical perspective is informed by a pluralist approach, drawing, as I do, from a wide range of theories and modalities, selecting those most appropriate to the needs of the client.

Areas or issues I can help with: depression, feelings of stress or anxiety, problems with confidence or self-esteem, relationship issues, issues relating to sexuality, difficulties at work or in retirement, problems with family or school life, anger management, panic attacks, grief, loss or bereavement, trauma and post-traumatic stress difficulties, and cultural issues.

Read more about shiraz here: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/practitioners/shiraz-showk/

11/08/2026

"Psychotherapy, as I understand it, means change at the structural level of the personality. I don’t think everyone grasps that. People do their training, stop their own personal work, and then can’t offer clients what they actually came for. Change at the root, so patterns don’t keep repeating." Sam Jahara

Read the full article here: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/blog/the-unanalysed-therapist/

10/08/2026

Why you are not your attachment style by Mark Vahrmeyer

Attachment theory is everywhere. TikTok, YouTube and Instagram are filled with videos explaining anxious attachment, avoidant partners, fearful-avoidant relationships and the supposed signs that somebody is emotionally unavailable. For many people, this language can be genuinely helpful, offering a framework through which to understand why closeness feels difficult, why reassurance never seems sufficient, or why…

Click to read more: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/blog/why-you-are-not-your-attachment-style/

07/08/2026

Acceptance commitment therapy (ACT) is an approach used in psychology and psychotherapy employing mindfulness and acceptance-based techniques. ACT explores our experience and relationship to thoughts. It does not try to eliminate or challenge the content of thoughts directly.

Find my Therapist: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/types-of-therapy/acceptance-commitment-therapy/

04/08/2026

Climate Anxiety: When concern about the environment becomes overwhelming by Mark Vahrmeyer

As heatwaves intensify across Europe and wildfires spread through parts of France and Spain, climate change can feel less like a distant scientific projection and more like a reality unfolding in front of us. Images of burning forests, evacuated towns and smoke-filled skies challenge the assumption that the climate we have known throughout our lives…

Read more: https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/blog/

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Brighton And Hove

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 9pm
Tuesday	9am - 9pm
Wednesday	9am - 9pm
Thursday	9am - 9pm
Friday	9am - 9pm

Telephone

+441273921355

Website

https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/

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