Our Practitioners

Mark Vahrmeyer, UKCP Registered
BHP Co-founder.

Mark is a psychoanalytically informed psychotherapist with a wide range of clinical experience from both the public and private sectors. He currently sees both individuals and couples, primarily for open-ended depth psychotherapy.

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Sam Jahara, UKCP Registered Psychotherapist, CTA, Cert TIHR (Coaching)
BHP Co-founder

Sam is a transactional analysis psychotherapist, clinical superviser and executive coach with experience of working with individuals and couples in short and long-term therapy as well as offering consultancy to organisations.

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Gerry Gilmartin, BACP Accredited / Registered

Gerry is an accredited, registered and experienced psychotherapeutic counsellor. She currently works with individuals (young people/adults) and couples in private practice.

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Dr Simon Cassar, UKCP Registered

Simon is an experienced integrative existential psychotherapist providing long and short-term psychotherapy to individuals.

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Claire Barnes, UKCP Registered

Claire is an experienced psychotherapist and group analyst. She offers psychodynamic counselling and analytic psychotherapy, working long and short-term with individuals and groups.

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Sharon Spindler, UKCP Registered

Sharon is an experienced NHS and private UKCP Registered Systemic and Family Psychotherapist offering psychotherapy session to individuals, couples and families.  She is also registered to work with children and young people.

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David Work, MA Psych. BACP Registered

David is an Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counsellor (BACP registered) working with adults, offering short and long term individual therapy.

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Susanna Petitpierre, BACP Registered

Susanna is an experienced psychotherapeutic counsellor, providing long- and short-term counselling. Her approach is primarily grounded in existential therapy and she works with individuals.

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Thad Hickman, BACP Registered

I’m an experienced psychotherapeutic counsellor and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I work long-term with individuals in our Brighton and Hove practice.

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Chris Horton, BACP Accredited

Chris is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) and a psychotherapeutic counsellor with experience in a diverse range of occupational settings. He works with individual adults in private practice.

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Fiona Downie, UKCP Registered

Fiona is an experienced UKCP registered integrative psychotherapist, working with adults and young adults. She offers both long and short-term therapy.

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Thea Beech, UKCP Registered 

Thea is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Group Analyst working with individuals, couples, families and groups.  She offers consultation and supervision to groups and organisations.

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Rebecca Mead, Registered with BABCP and accredited with IPT UK.

Rebecca is an experienced CBT therapist offering Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) to individuals adults.

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David Keighley, BACP Accredited

David is a BACP Accredited counsellor/psychotherapist offering short and long term therapy to individuals and couples using a variety of techniques such as EMDR, CBT and Schema Therapy. He is also a trained clinical supervisor.

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Georgie Leake, NVR UK accredited

Georgie is an NVR UK accredited Advanced Level NVR Practitioner and holds a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, a Master of Education (Special Needs and Inclusive Education), a Master of Arts in Social Sciences and QTLS.

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