Annie Shannon

Please contact me for current availability - I work daytimes and some evenings.

Generally the rooms I work from have a minimum of three steps but please do make contact if wheelchair-access is required.

Hello I'm Annie, I offer compassionate and down-to-earth counselling to adults and adolescents in several Sussex locations and online.

If you're here, and looking for a counsellor, you may well have experienced some upheaval or distress in your life. People seek counselling for many reasons - whatever it is that brings you, I'm happy you're here and I'd like to help if I can.

I have experience working with adults and adolescents across a broad range of issues including: bereavement, depression, neurodivergence, identity, menopause and more. I have detailed a little more about me and my experience below but if you'd like to find out a bit more about me and the type of counselling I offer, please feel free to get in touch and/or to visit my website.

About me:

• I decided to retrain as a counsellor after experiencing an empowering and healing therapeutic relationship myself. I believe that with the right support, we can do more then just 'get through' challenging periods.
• I can offer support as you build self-awareness, resilience and self-compassion - identifying and exploring what is troubling you, unhelpful self-beliefs, relationships, your identity and so much more.
• I am warm and responsive and endeavour to work respectfully, inclusively and openly - my hope is that you will always know you are with a real human, who listens, cares and accepts you, just as you are.
• I work in a calm and creative way - and by creative I mean to say I'm not rigid or formulaic, recognising everyone is different, with different needs:

- for some, sitting in a peaceful room will be the best place to explore their inner self

- for others, being outdoors and walking alongside their counsellor ('walk and talk') is a more suitable environment

- and others might find working creatively with art, dreams, a sand-tray, genograms or timelines to be therapeutically useful...

… we can be creative together in deciding what counselling means for you and what environment and approach suits you best.

I work from therapy rooms in Hove and Hurstpierpoint and also offer online and 'walk and talk' sessions.

I have direct experience with the following areas:

• Adolescence (teens and pre-teens) 
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Depression
• Family relationships
• Gender dysmorphia
• Hormonal issues such as PMDD
• Identity
• Life-altering conditions and illness
• Menopause
• Milestones and transitional life events
• Neurodivergence
• Relationship difficulties 
• Self esteem 
• Self harm
• Suicidality
• Trauma

I am a registered member of the BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists), hold professional indemnity insurance and an extended DBS certificate. 

I work in a trauma-informed and neurodivergence-affirming way and have respectful curiosity for your unique identity, personal and social circumstances, heritage, culture, spiritual beliefs and background.

Next steps:

Counselling is a big commitment (and investment) and finding the right therapist can take time - you may wish to visit a few before making a decision.  As such I offer:

1. a free 15-min online (or telephone) conversation in order to 'meet' briefly for a quick chat about what your looking for and to ask me any questions you might have.

2. a face to face informal 45 minute introductory session at a reduced fee (£30) in order for you to get an idea of what counselling might feel like with me and to share a little more about your hopes and expectations of therapy. 

3. If you do decide to work with me we will agree a convenient day and time to meet each week and I will send you my contract to have a read through in advance of your first formal counselling session. 

Please contact me for current availability - I work daytimes and some evenings.

Generally the rooms I work from have a minimum of three steps but please do make contact if wheelchair-access is required.

Hello I'm Annie, I offer compassionate and down-to-earth counselling to adults and adolescents in several Sussex locations and online.

If you're here, and looking for a counsellor, you may well have experienced some upheaval or distress in your life. People seek counselling for many reasons - whatever it is that brings you, I'm happy you're here and I'd like to help if I can.

I have experience working with adults and adolescents across a broad range of issues including: bereavement, depression, neurodivergence, identity, menopause and more. I have detailed a little more about me and my experience below but if you'd like to find out a bit more about me and the type of counselling I offer, please feel free to get in touch and/or to visit my website.

About me:

• I decided to retrain as a counsellor after experiencing an empowering and healing therapeutic relationship myself. I believe that with the right support, we can do more then just 'get through' challenging periods.
• I can offer support as you build self-awareness, resilience and self-compassion - identifying and exploring what is troubling you, unhelpful self-beliefs, relationships, your identity and so much more.
• I am warm and responsive and endeavour to work respectfully, inclusively and openly - my hope is that you will always know you are with a real human, who listens, cares and accepts you, just as you are.
• I work in a calm and creative way - and by creative I mean to say I'm not rigid or formulaic, recognising everyone is different, with different needs:

- for some, sitting in a peaceful room will be the best place to explore their inner self

- for others, being outdoors and walking alongside their counsellor ('walk and talk') is a more suitable environment

- and others might find working creatively with art, dreams, a sand-tray, genograms or timelines to be therapeutically useful...

… we can be creative together in deciding what counselling means for you and what environment and approach suits you best.

I work from therapy rooms in Hove, Brighton and Hurstpierpoint and also offer online and 'walk and talk' sessions.

I have direct experience with the following areas:

Adolescence (teens and pre-teens)

Anxiety

Bereavement

Depression

Family relationships

Hormonal issues such as PMDD

Identity

Life-altering conditions and illness

Menopause

Milestones and transitional life events

Neurodivergence

Relationship difficulties

Self esteem

Self harm

Suicidality

Trauma

I am a registered member of the BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists), hold professional indemnity insurance and an extended DBS certificate.

I work in a trauma-informed and neurodivergence-affirming way and have respectful curiosity for your unique identity, personal and social circumstances, heritage, culture, spiritual beliefs and background.

Next steps:

Counselling is a big commitment (and investment) and finding the right therapist can take time - you may wish to visit a few before making a decision. As such I offer:

1. a free 15-min online (or telephone) conversation in order to 'meet' briefly for a quick chat about what your looking for and to ask me any questions you might have.

2. a face to face informal 45 minute introductory session at a reduced fee (£30) in order for you to get an idea of what counselling might feel like with me and to share a little more about your hopes and expectations of therapy.

3. If you do decide to work with me we will agree a convenient day and time to meet each week and I will send you my contract to have a read through in advance of your first formal counselling session. 

Please contact me for current availability - I work daytimes and some evenings.

Generally the rooms I work from have a minimum of three steps but please do make contact if wheelchair-access is required.

Hello I'm Annie, I offer compassionate and down-to-earth counselling to adults and adolescents in several Sussex locations and online.

If you're here, and looking for a counsellor, you may well have experienced some upheaval or distress in your life. People seek counselling for many reasons - whatever it is that brings you, I'm happy you're here and I'd like to help if I can.

I have experience working with adults and adolescents across a broad range of issues including: bereavement, depression, neurodivergence, identity, menopause and more. I have detailed a little more about me and my experience below but if you'd like to find out a bit more about me and the type of counselling I offer, please feel free to get in touch and/or to visit my website.

About me:

I decided to retrain as a counsellor after experiencing an empowering and healing therapeutic relationship myself. I believe that with the right support, we can do more then just 'get through' challenging periods.

I can offer support as you build self-awareness, resilience and self-compassion - identifying and exploring what is troubling you, unhelpful self-beliefs, relationships, your identity and so much more.

I am warm and responsive and endeavour to work respectfully, inclusively and openly - my hope is that you will always know you are with a real human, who listens, cares and accepts you, just as you are.

I work in a calm and creative way - and by creative I mean to say I'm not rigid or formulaic, recognising everyone is different, with different needs:

- for some, sitting in a peaceful room will be the best place to explore their inner self

- for others, being outdoors and walking alongside their counsellor ('walk and talk') is a more suitable environment

- and others might find working creatively with art, dreams, a sand-tray, genograms or timelines to be therapeutically useful...

… we can be creative together in deciding what counselling means for you and what environment and approach suits you best.

I work from therapy rooms in Hove, Brighton and Hurstpierpoint and also offer online and 'walk and talk' sessions.

I have direct experience with the following areas:

Adolescence (teens and pre-teens)

Anxiety

Bereavement

Depression

Family relationships

Hormonal issues such as PMDD

Identity

Life-altering conditions and illness

Menopause

Milestones and transitional life events

Neurodivergence

Relationship difficulties

Self esteem

Self harm

Suicidality

Trauma

I am a registered member of the BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists), hold professional indemnity insurance and an extended DBS certificate.

I work in a trauma-informed and neurodivergence-affirming way and have respectful curiosity for your unique identity, personal and social circumstances, heritage, culture, spiritual beliefs and background.

Next steps:

Counselling is a big commitment (and investment) and finding the right therapist can take time - you may wish to visit a few before making a decision. As such I offer an informal 45 minute introductory session at a reduced fee (£30) in order for you to get an idea of what counselling might feel like with me and to share a little about your hopes and expectations of therapy.

If you do decide to work with me we will agree a convenient day and time to meet each week and I will send you my contract to have a read through in advance of your first formal counselling session.