Our practitioners

Sam Jahara, UKCP registered psychotherapist, CTA, Cert TIHR (Coaching)
BHP co-founder

Sam is a transactional analysis psychotherapist, clinical supervisor 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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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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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, couples 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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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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Thad Hickman, UKCP & BACP Registered

Thad is an integrative psychotherapist and counsellor, registered with both the UKCP and the BACP and has a wide range of client experience.  He works long- and short-term with individual adults in Brighton & Hove, Lewes and also online.

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Susanna Petitpierre, UKCP registered

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

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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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Kirsty Toal, UKCP & HCPC registered

Kirsty is an experienced psychotherapist with a decade spent offering therapy, training and clinical supervision in a variety of settings. Kirsty offers short- and long-term psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy to adults, in person in Lewes and online.

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Joseph Bailey, BPC registered

Joseph is a psychodynamic psychotherapist, offering analytic therapy to individual adults in Brighton and Hove. He is registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC).

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Lucie Ramet, Chartered psychologist, CBT and ACT therapist

Lucie Ramet is an experienced chartered psychologist and CBT & ACT therapist offering short- and long-term individual support to adolescents (16+) and adults. She works in English and French.

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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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