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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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

Thad is an experienced psychotherapeutic counsellor and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I work long-term with individuals in Lewes and Hove.

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Shiraz El Showk, UKCP Registered

Shiraz is a Training Member of the Association for Group and Individual Psychotherapy (AGIP) and a registered Training member of the UKCP, She is experienced in Psychodynamic counselling and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy work with individuals, on both long and short term basis.

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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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