Hello I’m Mary, a qualified and experienced psychotherapeutic counsellor and outdoor therapist working in Lewes, Brighton and around East Sussex. I also work online.

I help people reconnect with their sense of aliveness using a combination of talking therapy, somatic, body orientated practices, mindfulness and movement.

Talking to someone outside of your day to day existence can help you understand more clearly how you relate to yourself, others and the world around you. Compassionate, non judgemental listening will give you the space to explore what it’s like to be truly seen and heard for who you really are. All too often how you see yourself now is based on what happened to you in the past. Together we can shine a light on the patterns behind what's troubling you. As your awareness grows we can begin to challenge your familiar frame of reference and explore new possibilities and different ways of relating.

I believe talking therapy helps put meaning to our experience, but often our bodies hold memories and emotions that we struggle to find words for. Body orientated therapy offers a creative way to access and release this. How do we know we are happy, angry, anxious…? We might experience a warm feeling in the heart, a knot in the stomach, hunched shoulders. Exploring physical sensations and movements can help us fully experience our emotions. We can learn to move in and out of difficult sensations and emotions so that they become less overwhelming. Emotions are part of our visceral experience of being alive and yet often we learn to suppress them. Feeling and expressing emotions helps cultivate a resilient nervous system that will support you through the inevitable ups and downs of life. It’s about learning to surf the waves instead of feeling that you're being pulled under.