Counselling in Brighton & Hove
I’m Simon Buckland MSc MBACP
I’m an accredited BACP counsellor based in Brighton & Hove, working with adults one-to-one (£70) or in couples (£100) in person and online.
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As well as my Level 7 qualifications in psychodynamic and psychospiritual counselling, I’ve been trained in many other kinds of personal development work, including bodywork, psychodrama, Internal Family Systems, and couples counselling. I've been working as a counsellor since 2014.
I’m fully insured, and as an accredited member I work within the ethical and professional framework of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists – the country’s no. 1 official association.
I’m kind, patient, perceptive and supportive, and I’ll never judge or criticise you. Whatever difficult places we might go to in our work together, you can be sure that I’ve been there before in my own therapy journey and training. That makes me a safe and trustworthy guide.
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We all have a huge capacity for love, joy and creativity, but the channels get clogged up by unhealed emotional wounds and unresolved traumas. These effects build up if they’re not dealt with, so that our thoughts become distorted as well, and it becomes harder and harder to find our way out of the maze without sympathetic professional help.
I’ll work with you to get the negative voices and feelings under control, to create distance from them and allow your more positive and creative side to come forward.
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I provide a space where you can be seen and heard exactly as you are. We’ll explore the kinds of things that you typically do and say, and the feelings and thoughts that go with them. We’ll look at what triggers these, where they come from, and how not to be dominated by them any more.
You’ll learn bit by bit to be a wiser and more compassionate friend to yourself, so as to move towards a life which reflects the best of who you are.