LOCATION: Church Road, Hove & online
AVAILABILITY: Monday - Friday, 9am - 8pm
PRICE: £65 - £75 per session
SPECIALISMS:
Anxiety and Depression
LGBT+ issues
Trauma and Attachment Issues
Stress and Burnout
Neurodiversity
Bereavement and Loss
Race, Racism, and Culture
Eating Disorders
Addictions and Compulsive Behaviour
Toxic Relationships and Co-dependency

Training

Theo is an experienced Psychotherapeutic Counsellor who undertook their core training at the Minster Centre in London, where they qualified with a Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy. They have worked as a Counsellor in multiple different settings, including in a University counselling department, an HIV service, and as a Mental Health Support Coordinator in the NHS. They are currently in full-time private practice, where they work with a wide range of common mental health difficulties. Though they work with a wide range of presenting issues, they have a special interest in working with individuals who are experiencing more entrenched difficulties in their relationships, or repetitive patterns of behaviour and emotion that they are struggling to understand.

Approach

Theo’s approach is integrative and relational, combining psychoanalytic clinical practice with the best of contemporary attachment and neuroscientific research. Theo offers a space which is calm and regulated, attending closely to the therapeutic process. Their focus is on how our early formative relationships shape each of us, with a strong focus on how these may be playing out unconsciously in your present day relationships, feelings, sense of self, and behaviours. They don’t offer quick fixes, but believe that good therapy can help to foster deeper self-awareness, greater self-acceptance, a healthier nervous system, and more fulfilling relationships.

As well as their counselling and psychotherapy practice, Theo is an experienced meditation and yoga practitioner, and has undertaken a number of silent meditation retreats. They use their personal experience of mindfulness and meditation to support their therapeutic practice, and to create a process with you that is spacious and infused with self-compassion.

Anxiety and Depression

Anxiety and depression are two of the most common complaints in people seeking therapy. They may be separate issues, or you may be experiencing both. Theo offers a non-judgemental space to explore how these difficult feelings might be showing up in your life at the moment, and to understand the deeper sources of your worries or low mood. Theo recognises that sometimes it is enough just to say certain things out loud in a supportive and confidential space, while other times you may identify a more deeply-rooted problem in your life that you are wanting to work on together. Whatever you decide, Theo offers a safe pair of hands to help guide you towards a greater sense of internal balance and confidence in yourself.

LGBTQ+ clients

Theo has extensive experience working with LGBTQ+ clients, having previously worked with the Terrence Higgins’ Trust, and being queer and neurodivergent themselves. They recognise that LGBTQ+ clients experience the same challenges as everyone else in society, but that these are often exacerbated by the legacy of growing up different, as well as ongoing experiences of discrimination and prejudice. Theo recognises that sometimes queer clients may feel more comfortable discussing their difficulties with queer therapists, and offers a warm, accepting, and inclusive space to anyone who needs it. They also work with the Queer Therapy Hub, and with Examining Whiteness, a group of therapists critically interrogating race and cultural issues through an intersectional lens.

Trauma Reduction and Recovery

As an integrative practitioner, Theo brings a clear understanding of developmental trauma to their work, combining this with a strong focus on embodied relational process in the therapy room. This allows them both to think deeply with you about unconscious processes that might be keeping you stuck in self-defeating patterns, and their origins, while doing so in a way that is always focused on creating greater experiential understanding of your self, rather than approaching therapy as an abstract or intellectual exercise.

The aim is always to support you to develop a more grounded and stable sense of self, with an improved capacity for relational nervous system regulation, greater sense of personal resourcedness, and ultimately empowering you to move forward in your life in a way that is congruent with your personal values and goals.

Being trauma trained, Theo’s approach is both sensitive and robust, guiding you through the sometimes rocky terrain of a therapeutic process in a way that prioritises both safety and growth, and is entirely attuned to you as a unique individual. To this end, they offer a space that is collaboratively paced and respectful of your autonomy, while also always remaining alive to possibility.