LOCATIONS: Church Rd, Hove
Meeting House Lane, Brighton
& Online

AVAILABILITY: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday day and eve
Thursday day
Online availability
Monday - daytime and evenings
PRICE: £70 per session - £90 EMDR (90 minutes)
SPECIALISMS:
Abuse
Anxiety & panic
Bereavement & loss
Bullying
Children & young people
Disordered eating
LGBTQ+ & gender issues
Low self-esteem
perinatal & postnatal issues, including Birth trauma
Racial & cultural issues
Self harm
Sexuality & intimacy, including love and sex addiction
Spirituality
Terminal illness & health-related issues
Trauma (including birth trauma & PTSD)

Training

Rhian holds a Master’s degree in Art Psychotherapy and is registered with and accredited by the HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council). She is also a member of BAAT and has completed training in EMDR therapy with EMDR Nexus. With over 15 years of therapeutic experience, Rhian has worked as an online counsellor, an Art Psychotherapist, and a therapeutic Art facilitator. Her work has spanned a range of settings, including primary and secondary schools, higher education, therapy centres, and online practice, supporting children, young people, and adults.

She has undertaken additional training in areas including safeguarding and child protection, bereavement and loss, sexuality and gender, body dysmorphic disorder, and lucid dreaming, informing a thoughtful and well-rounded approach to her work.

Approach

Rhian offers a warm, person-centred approach to therapy, grounded in the belief that meaningful change begins with feeling truly seen and understood. She works alongside each client, creating a safe, non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be explored at a pace that feels right.

Rhian places great value on the therapeutic relationship, offering empathy, authenticity, and deep respect for each person’s unique experience. She understands that reaching out for therapy can feel difficult, and recognises the courage it takes to take those first steps.

Rather than viewing struggles as problems to be fixed, Rhian sees them as meaningful responses that deserve compassion and understanding. Through this supportive and collaborative process, clients are encouraged to deepen self-awareness, reconnect with themselves, and move towards lasting, meaningful change.

Children & young people

Rhian has over 15 years experience working therapeutically with children and young people. She finds that they tend to relax and feel safe enough to trust and open up with a playful approach and often respond really well when they are offered Art materials to express things that might be too difficult or confusing to talk about or express things that might just be beyond words.

Having worked across primary and secondary schools, community centres, and five years with the NHS-commissioned platform Kooth, Rhian is highly skilled and experienced in supporting a diverse range of needs including anxiety and panic, selective mutism neurodivergence, gender dysphoria, complex trauma and bereavement including bereavement of a parent through suicide.

As a mother of two, including a neurodivergent child, Rhian blends professional clinical expertise with a deeply empathetic, personal understanding of modern family dynamics. Rhian is truly passionate about helping her clients move through their darkest moments to regain the joy, confidence, and resilience they deserve.

Trauma (including birth trauma & PTSD)

Trauma can stem from anything—large or small—that leaves your mind and body feeling completely overwhelmed. Trauma occurs when the mind and body is overwhelmed by something and is unable to process and store the event as a memory in the usual way. That means you might feel like you’re stuck on "high alert," and trauma often manifests in ways that disrupt your daily peace:
Re-living the moment: Through vivid flashbacks or intrusive thoughts.
Restless nights: Struggling to fall asleep or get back to sleep or experiencing distressing nightmares.
Survival mode: Developing coping mechanisms—like avoidance, disordered eating, or addictions—just to manage the weight of the distress.
Sometimes trauma lacks words and a coherent story and Art Psychotherapy can use image effectively to process trauma where words fail. Rhian also uses EMDR, an evidence based psychotherapy endorsed by the NHS, to re-process the event/s so that they no longer disturb the present.
Rhian is able to use EMDR or Art Psychotherapy or a combination of both to work to move these memories into the past, allowing you to reclaim your present and build healthier, more sustainable ways of coping.You’ve carried this long enough.

Bereavement & loss

Rhian offers compassionate, specialist support for individuals navigating bereavement and loss, recognising that grief is a deeply personal and often complex process. Her experience includes working with child bereavement, including the loss of a parent through suicide, where emotions can feel particularly intense, confusing, and overwhelming.

As a trained Art Psychotherapist, she integrates creative methods to help clients explore and express feelings that may be difficult to put into words. This can be especially valuable when working with the powerful and sometimes conflicting emotions that accompany grief.

She draws on established frameworks such as Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief, while holding in mind that grief is not linear and may involve revisiting different emotional states over time. Where loss is accompanied by trauma, she can incorporate EMDR to support the processing of distressing memories.
Her approach is sensitive to each individual’s unique experience, offering a safe and containing space to process loss at a pace that feels right for them.

Other information

Rhian is also trained and experienced as a Yoga, Yoga Nidra, and Pregnancy Yoga teacher, which informs her work and offers a unique perspective. She may incorporate gentle, accessible breathing techniques where appropriate, recognising how supportive these can be in managing intense emotions such as panic and anxiety.