Rebecca Brazier

** My practice is currently full. Please check back after Monday 10th March for availability**

I have sessions available Monday-Friday throughout the day and evening for face to face and online sessions. 

Please contact me to book an introductory call or initial session or if you have any questions.

Have you experienced a life changing event that you are finding it difficult to adjust to? Not living the life you want to? Are your relationships challenging either at home, with your family or in the workplace? Do you have addictions which you would like to address? Do you wake up and go to bed feeling anxious, angry or sad? Are you overwhelmed, unhappy and unfulfilled? Do the events from the past impact you today?

Counselling offers the time and space for you to explore your thoughts, emotions, behaviours and goals whilst respecting your uniqueness. I aim to create awareness, understanding and choice for you to experience a happier and more satisfying way of living. I work with awareness and respect for difference an diversity and welcome enquiries from people with health conditions and impairments.

I have a 1st class honours degree in counselling and am registered and accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and abide by their ethical framework. I have been practicing as a counsellor since 2010 and began my training following a life changing event in my 30s during which I found counselling a valuable support. It’s a privilege to be able to support other people during difficult times in life.

I am insured and undertake regular supervision, training and my own personal therapy. My training and insurance allows me to work with anyone aged 18 years and older. I can work in the short term which is helpful when focusing on a single issue and in the longer term which can enable deeper awareness to be made.

Sessions are for 60 minutes and can be face to face, outdoors or online and cost £60 each (concessions are available). The price we agree will not change for duration of our sessions.

I practice from The Haven, near Billingshurst in West Sussex and online for clients living further away.

** please note that travel costs may apply for home visits and walk and talk sessions**

Counselling provides the space to explore life’s issues and events whilst developing personal awareness working with feelings, thoughts, perceptions, behaviour and beliefs. Counselling facilitates greater awareness and understanding of yourself and your issues with the aim of experiencing life in a more satisfying way

Humanistic therapy uses a holistic, non-directive and non-judgemental approach. There is an emphasis on: meaning, choice, responsibility, self-development, self-awareness and empowering you to reach your full potential.

I incorporate theories and techniques as appropriate from the following theories:

Person centred therapy, Gestalt therapy, Existential philosophy, Transactional analysis, Solution focused therapy, attachment theory and loss and bereavement. 

Working creatively: sometimes it can be difficult to access thoughts and feelings. By working creatively using different media such as shells, music, dreams, art or cards to create a visual representation of issues allows alternative perspectives to emerge.

As part of my membership with the BACP I undertake 30 hours training a year. I also watch relevant TV programmes and read books throughout the year.

In 2025 I will be taking the following training:

Working with adult adopted clients and adoption related issues

Empty nest syndrome and other life transitions

Post traumatic growth

Navigating Family Estrangement 

Mental Health and the body: Treating Trauma

2024 Training:

West Sussex Independent Visitor Scheme

Working with Relational Trauma

Increasing Inclusivity 

Single Session Therapy

Sibling Issues 

2023 Training:

Bridging the divide of psychodynamic theory 

Dissociation and DID: The fundamentals

Safeguarding refresher

2022 Training:

The Art and Science of Couples Therapy

Certificate in Nature Based Practice and outdoor 1st aid course

Suicide Prevention Training

Certificate in Working with Families

Previous Years:

Solution Focused Therapy

Transactional Analysis 

Working with young people

Communication skills at end of life care

Our first session gives us a chance to meet and see if it would be good for us to work together. You can ask any questions you may and have and I will take some details about you and your life, what you would like to explore and what you would like to achieve during your sessions. 

If you don't feel I'm the right counsellor for you I can sign post you to other counsellors and organisations.

This session is charged at £30.