Online therapy for adults in Brighton and East Sussex
Online therapy for adults in Brighton and East Sussex
Online therapy gives adults across Brighton and East Sussex access to a qualified clinical psychologist without booking time off work or travelling into the city centre. Sessions run by secure video call, so location within BN1, BN2 or the wider county matters less than having a private space and a stable connection.
That’s the core of what this service offers: clinical psychologists for Brighton and East Sussex, working online with adults.
Why choose online therapy in Brighton
Brighton runs from the seafront through the Lanes and North Laine into BN1 and BN2, with Hove sitting to the west and Kemptown to the east. Fitting a weekly appointment around that geography, or around a job in Preston Park or Hanover, often means either an evening slot after a long day or a lunch break spent walking to a clinic. Online sessions remove that layer. You log in from home, from a quiet corner of an office in Withdean, or from wherever you happen to be that week, and the session itself stays exactly as focused as it would in a consulting room.
The same logic applies to Brighton’s transport links. Brighton station puts London Victoria and London Bridge under an hour away and Gatwick under thirty minutes, which is part of why the city holds such a mix of commuters, students and people who relocated from London. Online therapy fits around season tickets and shift patterns better than a fixed appointment near London Road or Preston Park station ever could.
What we treat
We work with adults presenting with anxiety, depression, health anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic, post-traumatic stress and trauma, perinatal mental health difficulties, and stress or burnout. Some people arrive with a clear diagnosis already in mind; others simply know that low mood, worry or exhaustion has gone on long enough to need proper attention rather than working around it.
Anxiety can show up as constant worry, health-related fears, panic attacks or the more specific avoidance patterns seen in OCD. Depression ranges from persistent low mood to a flatness that makes ordinary tasks feel heavier than they should. Trauma responses, including those following a single frightening event or building up over years, are treated with structured, evidence-based methods rather than general reassurance. We also see people managing the psychological side of burnout, where exhaustion has stopped responding to rest alone, and adults dealing with the specific pressures of pregnancy, birth or early parenthood.
Our therapeutic approaches
The approach we use depends on what’s presenting and what the evidence supports for it. Cognitive behavioural therapy, recommended by NICE for a range of anxiety disorders and depression, forms much of the work. For trauma and PTSD, we draw on trauma-focused CBT and EMDR, both recommended by NICE for these presentations. Acceptance and commitment therapy and compassion-focused therapy sit alongside these where a person’s difficulties call for a different angle, such as chronic self-criticism or a struggle to tolerate difficult emotions rather than avoid them. Schema therapy is available for longer-standing patterns that CBT alone hasn’t shifted.
How online sessions work
Sessions take place by video call at a set weekly time, in the same way an in-person appointment would run, just without the travel. Most people begin with an initial assessment conversation, where we talk through what’s bringing you to therapy and what you’re hoping will change. From there, we agree an approach and a rough shape for the work together. You’ll need a private space where you won’t be overheard and a reasonably stable internet connection; beyond that, the process asks nothing different of you than sitting in a room would.
Most people attend weekly to begin with, moving to a fortnightly rhythm as things settle, though the pace is set by what you need rather than a fixed template. We check in on progress at agreed points, so the number of sessions stays tied to how the work is actually going rather than running on indefinitely.
Online therapy compared with travelling into central Brighton
For someone in Hove, Portslade or further out towards the county boundary, the alternative to online therapy is usually a return trip into central Brighton, on top of the appointment itself. That adds up over a course of weekly sessions, particularly for anyone also managing a commute to London for work. Online delivery removes the travel without removing the structure of regular, focused sessions with the same psychologist each week. What it can’t replace is a physical room, and if that’s what someone specifically wants, they should look for a practice that offers it. This service is online for now, and we’ll update this site as the practice develops.
Getting started
Getting in touch starts with a short conversation about what you’re dealing with and whether our approach is a reasonable fit. From there we can set out how sessions would run and answer any practical questions you have before committing to anything. That conversation gives both sides a chance to check the fit before agreeing how sessions will run.