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Welcome to Therapy in Sussex

A confidential safe space to explore using your voice and build your confidence following experiencing the powerlessness of sexual abuse/assault and childhood trauma.

Bring in healthy coping mechanisms and strategies to sooth your fear, live in the moment with peace and experience healthy relationships

Experienced therapist offering support to you with addiction, including emotional eating and bariatric issues associated with sexual abuse/assault & childhood trauma

Fees: £65 for individuals (reduced rates available on request)

£80 Couples

Supervision £60 (reduced rates available for students on request)

Email: therapyinsussex@gmail.com to book a free introductory session

Counselling and therapy for individuals in a safe, comfortable and private setting.

Face to face in Pyecombe with free secure parking and online throughout UK

Contact me on 07541 961377 or scroll down to the contact form to make an appointment

Welcome, and thank you for visiting Therapy in Sussex

My name is Jacqueline Light and I am an AuDHD counsellor providing both short- and long-term counselling and psychotherapy to adult individuals and couples in private practice in Pyecombe near Brighton and online nationwide.

We all experience times of difficulty in our lives, when events or relationships feel overwhelming, or we can feel a loss of direction, stuck or purpose.

When we experience fear, we can freeze. In that moment we don't use our voice. We can take this into our adult life and it is no longer useful to do this, but we need to be kind to ourselves and not critical, as tempting as it is to do. Giving ourselves permission to use our voice and be heard and putting in our own boundaries can be powerful and liberating. Learn how to do this with confidence in our sessions together. Embrace your voice!

Talking to a trained professional can help you to make sense of those challenging times and offers a way through them, moving towards a better understanding of ourselves and our feelings.

Special interest in sexual abuse/assault, childhood /adult trauma and bariatric/emotional eating issues.

How can counselling help you?

Life brings many challenges, and it is understandable that at times we might look for support in facing them. As a counsellor my role is to provide space and guidance to help you on your journey of self-discovery; to enable you to examine your life and make new, meaningful choices within it.

I offer a chance to reflect on the difficulties or problems you are experiencing in a safe and confidential environment, with someone from outside your day-to-day life. Together we can explore how you are thinking, feeling and behaving in a way that leads to fresh perspectives - and perhaps a new understanding of yourself. Counselling isn’t about giving you solutions or advice, but empowering you to make your own changes.

My approach to therapy is a relational integrative one. This is a non-judgmental way of working, where the counsellor creates the right conditions to help you increase your self-awareness, insight and autonomy to makes the changes you wish to achieve. I can give you the challenge you are looking for, may that be gentle or more direct.

I passionately believe that listening to our own voice with love and expressing our voice to be heard, can be life changing and liberating. Freedom from silence and fear.

I am also able to support couples wishing to work through relationship issues in a calm space with boundaries so you both can share how you are feeling, feel heard and listened to. This is very important. Poor communication between couples is one of the biggest problems in breakdowns of relationships so bringing this back into your lives can be very empowering in itself. I offer a free introductory session to couples so please get in touch so we can meet together to discuss your relationships issues and goals. I specialise working with neurodivergent clients and couples.

Speak in Confidence

Counselling takes place in a safe space, where you can meet with me, I will listen with sensitivity and empathy - and without judgement. In the therapy space your thoughts and feelings can be expressed freely and in confidence.

Using your voice can feel scary but learning to do this and feeling safe to do so can be all part of the process.

A problem shared...

Difficulty with past trauma; sexual assault/abuse; childhood trauma; relationships; anxiety or panic attacks; mood swings or depression - many people face difficulties in their everyday lives that can be hard to get on top of. Counselling/psychotherapy gives us a set of tools we can use to help gain a better understanding of ourselves and our relationship with others. Awareness brings you insight into what’s causing these problems - and how you can move towards managing or resolving them.

Make better, healthier new choices

Working together I can help you gain greater insight into the difficulties you are facing, help you understand why you act or react to them the way you do, and see how you can start to make better, heathier choices moving forward.

What issues can counselling help with?

People come to me for help a wide range of issues. Here are a few of the more common difficulties that can be supported through therapy

Feelings of stress, anxiety & panic attacks

Problems with confidence and self-esteem

Lack of confidence using your voice

Fear of conflict and confrontation

Attachment & abandonment

Relationship problems

Couple Counselling

Grief and loss of relationships

Life changes

Trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder

Sexual Abuse/Assault

Poor relationships with previous therapist/s

Body Image & Gastric Sleeve support - pre & post surgery

Weight Loss Injections

Loneliness and Isolation

Identity issues

Not feeling good enough - ashamed

Problems with family and friends

Issues relating to alcohol misuse

Difficulties at work or in retirement

Mental Health

Anger

Shame

Trainee Counsellor/Psychotherapist

Communication

Neurodivergence

Intimacy

Sexual identity and confidence

Fees

Single Counselling Sessions £50 - £65

depending on affordability

Couples Counselling Session £80

Supervision £60 - 1 hour

Trainee counsellors - discount on request for therapy and supervision

Block and monthly payments accepted

Please do discuss any affordability issues with me if this is a block to attending therapy

My location

I work from a private rural clinic located in Pyecombe, near Brighton and see clients from Mid -Sussex, Brighton, Hove as well as the surrounding Worthing, Crawley, Lewes areas. Free on-site secure parking is available for your convenience. Taxis are available from Hassocks train station and there are local bus services from Brighton

In addition to providing face-to-face therapy, I also offer online sessions for clients throughout the UK via Zoom. Contact me to find out more about how online therapy works.

Availability

I offer a free 30 minute session for individuals and couples to meet and talk so please enquire about this if this interests you. A great way to meet and see if we would be a good fit to work together.

Counselling sessions are 50 minutes, initially taking place on a weekly basis.

I do offer some fortnightly session.

Appointment days: Tuesday, Thursday and Fridays

Qualifications

Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)

I am a BACP member (00921755) which means I have met their criteria for qualified therapists and work in accordance with their ethical frameworks.

CPCAB Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling - Person Centred Integrative
Transactional Analysis Foundation & Advanced Psychotherapy Certificate
Certificate in Working with Trauma - Mark Widdowson, The Link Centre
Diploma in Supervision
Institute of Group Analysis Group Facilitator
Foundation Year Certificate IGA

Professional CPD

Anxiety and attachment
Working with addiction - alcohol, drug, emotional eating
Attachment & self-esteem
Inner Child
Dissociative Seizures & PTSD
Sexual abuse as a child and relationship with sex as an adult
Emotional eating & Gastric Sleeve surgery - building new relationships with food and Self
Trauma

Supervision - Individual and Group Clinical Supervision

I am accepting supervisee’s currently and can offer online and in-person integrative transpersonal humanistic supervision. Mid-Sussex based.

I have been in private practice for 8 years and experienced with attachment, trauma, sexual assault, anger, process groups, attachment and bariatric - gastric sleeve pre/post operation.

I enjoy supporting newly qualified and trainee therapists as well as experienced and established practitioners with their work, professional development, self care as a therapist and human being to avoid burn out and remain working ethically and happily.

I work with a range of supervision models and concepts and believe the foundation of great supervision for you and I is the relationship we have together, our supervisory relationship. I am passionate about offering a safe, warm and nurturing environment for you to explore and gain support for you and your work.

I originally trained as a person-centred therapeutic therapist and have since embraced gestalt and transactional analysis humanistic modalities within my work as a supervisor.

I am a neurodivergent therapist myself and so can support you with your own ND needs.

Very often we can feel shame about ourselves and not feel good enough as therapists as this can impact us in bringing ourselves fully to supervision. Due to the dear of being judged. I embrace the real issues therapists face and talk about it openly, giving you permission to bring yourself just as you are into our supervision space together because you are good enough. I am aware of the needs of being neurodivergent in our work with clients and our own self care and can support you in this process too, understanding as I'm living these issues too.

I am a L6/7 integrative and relational TA counselling and psychotherapy secondary tutor so can bring experience and knowledge to support you in your training needs.

If you are looking for counselling group supervision I am qualified and experienced with teaching groups and offer monthly supervision and therapy groups online.

I offer bespoke corporate individual and group packages so please do get in touch to discuss this with me. This can be in person or online.

I adhere to the BACP Supervision Framework

Therapy and Support Groups

New 2026 Therapy Groups and Support Groups online coming soon!

Anger and Shame Therapy Groups for trainee and qualified counsellors and psychotherapist

Weight Loss Injection and Bariatric Gastric Sleeve Support Groups for everyone to join

Full details to be posted here soon

Get in touch

Feel free to contact me to arrange a free introduction session appointment or meet for therapy or supervision.

This is a great way to meet each other, see how we fit together and whether I am the right therapist for you.

For 1:1 & Group Clinical Supervision and Therapy/Support Groups please complete the form below and I will be in touch as soon as possible to discuss.

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Therapy in Sussex

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