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http://www.newroadpsychotherapy.com/

New Road Psychotherapy, 28 New Road, Brighton (2026)

19/12/2025

As we draw closer to December’s festivities, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for being part of the New Road community, and to wish you a peaceful and restorative end to the year.

Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, and whether you’re able to take time away from personal and professional responsibilities or will still have things to attend to throughout the month, we hope you can find some pockets of time to care for yourself in whatever ways feel needed.

Looking ahead to January...

If you're a therapist, there's a CPD Sussex workshop on safeguarding coming up on Tuesday 13th (co-hosted with our friends , at their centre in Hove) - there are just 10 places remaining for this (tickets £10) and you can book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/safeguarding-in-a-counselling-context-a-cpd-sussex-event-tickets-1765100395799?aff=oddtdtcreator

And if you’re seeking therapeutic support for yourself or a loved one in 2026, please do book a consultation for the new year or contact us via our website and a member of the team will get back to you as soon as possible in January. If affordability if a barrier, our low cost service offers therapy for just £27 per session: https://www.newroadpsychotherapy.com/low-cost

We appreciate that the festive period can be difficult for many reasons. If you find yourself experiencing distress during this time, please call 111 and select the mental health option, contact Samaritans on 116123, or text 'SHOUT' to 85258.

Warm winter wishes from the New Road Psychotherapy team 💚

11/12/2025

Rosewood room bringing warmth to a grey day 🤎

At New Road Psychotherapy, our rooms draw on nature-inspired colours and textures to create an environment for sharing and reflection that feels safe and calming. In Rosewood you'll find earthy tones, leafy plants, natural cork panels and a lovely view of the trees outside.

In other rooms you'll find the influence of ocean blues, sunny yellows, sage and olive greens, and the chalky white of our Sussex landscape.

We have two locations in Brighton (28 New Road) and Hove (73 Church Road), with sixteen welcoming spaces and a whole host of experienced and compassionate therapists ready to support you through your challenges and growth.

If you're looking for low cost therapy, our accessible service offers weekly sessions for just £27.

For more information about how we can help, or to book an initial consultation, just head to our website here: https://www.newroadpsychotherapy.com/

We look forward to welcoming you!

02/12/2025

Winter can be a season of cosy evenings, slower rhythms, and quiet moments of restoration after a busy year - but it can also be a time when mental health struggles feel more tender.

Shorter days and reduced sunlight can lower energy and mood. Colder weather and darker days can make us feel more isolated. The pressure to “be joyful” during the holiday season can amplify stress, grief, or loneliness. For all these reasons and more, this time of year can bring old patterns or emotions closer to the surface.

If winter feels heavy for you, you don't have to carry that burden alone. At New Road Psychotherapy, we’re here to help you navigate whatever this season brings. Therapeutic support can offer space to reflect, share and process your experiences so that you can navigate this time feeling more connected to yourself and others.

To book an initial consultation with one of our experienced therapists and find out how we might be able to help, click here: https://www.newroadpsychotherapy.com/consultation

We look forward to walking through winter with you 🤍

27/11/2025

NEW CPD WORKSHOP FOR THERAPISTS & TRAINEES

'Beyond Denial: Working with Client Self-Deception'
Tuesday 24th March, 6-8pm
Connexus Institute (5 The Drive, Hove)

Led by Patrick Brook, CTA (P), TSTA (P), this workshop is designed for therapists, counsellors, and mental health practitioners who wish to deepen their understanding of how clients (and we ourselves) unconsciously minimise, ignore, or distort reality as a psychological defence.

The session will explore:

🔵 The process of 'discounting' as an unconscious defence mechanism that blocks the processing of difficult experiences.

🟠 The four levels of discounting, from ignoring stimuli entirely to minimising the significance or solvability of problems.

🔵 Practical frameworks for recognising when clients (and ourselves) are stuck in patterns of self-deception.

🟠 How to distinguish between healthy selective attention and problematic discounting that keeps people trapped.

Tickets cost just £10 - book your place or find out more here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-denial-working-with-client-self-deception-a-cpd-sussex-event-tickets-1968019322772?aff=oddtdtcreator

This event is hosted by CPD Sussex: an initiative focused on supporting the professional development of counsellors and psychotherapists in Brighton & Hove and the wider region.

13/11/2025

Eau de Nil room catching the morning sunlight at our Hove centre ✨

If you're looking for a therapeutic space that feels peaceful, warm and safe - whether as a client or a practitioner - our rooms offer just the environment you need.

Across our two conveniently situated locations in Brighton (28 New Road) and Hove (73 Church Road) we have sixteen spaces ideally suited to meaningful sharing and reflection.

For more information about our services and therapists, or to book an initial consultation, just head to our website: https://www.newroadpsychotherapy.com/

We look forward to welcoming you!

11/11/2025

SOOTHE & BLOOM: a new 6-week music therapy group supporting caregivers and their newborn babies (from 8 weeks up to 6 months) to connect and grow through nurturing musical experiences. Beginning late 2025 / early 2026!

About the group:

Join Paediatric Music Therapist Hannah Hayes Soulbird Therapies in a gentle and nurturing space to learn how your baby uniquely communicates with you. This small group will be tailored to each individual parent and child, and will be welcoming to all - whether you've had a difficult birthing experience or journey to parenthood, have a baby with a health condition or your own mental/physical health needs to consider, or are simply looking to connect with other parents and their baby(s) in a safe and therapeutic environment.

Through gentle lullabies and songs (some with signs), and new sound experiences to promote bonding and attachment, you will learn how your baby communicates with you, and nurture their sensory, emotional and relational development.

About Hannah:

Experienced in working with pre-term babies in NICU, and with babies with complex medical needs in a hospital setting, Hannah is passionate about using music to support parental wellbeing and promote positive bonding experiences between caregiver and baby(s). Using voice, guitar, ukulele, and other musical instruments, she seeks to create a womb-like environment in which you and your baby(s) can share special early musical experiences together.

The details:

The exact start date for Soothe & Bloom is yet to be finalised, but it will begin in December or January and run for 6 weeks, with sessions taking place on Thursdays from 12-1pm at New Road Psychotherapy in Hove (73 Church Road). Cost: £120 for all 6 sessions.

To find out more, have an informal conversation with Hannah, or express your interest in joining, please email hannah@soulbirdtherapies.com.

We look forward to welcoming you and your little ones to New Road!

06/11/2025

Are you a trainee or qualified counsellor or psychotherapist with personal experience of cancer diagnosis and treatment? Could you spare some time to help with a postgraduate research project?

As part of her Psychotherapy MSc , Dr Charlotte Rustin is researching how the existential-phenomenological constructs that play a key role in counselling and psychotherapy training impact practitioners' own experiences of cancer and inform their professional work.

Dr Rustin's interest in this research stems from her own diagnosis and treatment for Stage 2 breast cancer whilst training to be a counsellor, during which time she felt that how she was experiencing the process of diagnosis, treatment and recovery felt intrinsically linked to, shaped and supported by the learning associated with the existential-phenomenological paradigm.

Whilst there is already research into the impact of cancer on individuals, research exploring the nature of counsellor’s/psychotherapist’s experience of cancer is limited. This study therefore aims to explore how a pre-existing understanding of existential-phenomenological constructs may interact with a counsellor/psychotherapist’s own experience of cancer.

You can view the participant information sheet here: https://storage2.me-qr.com/pdf/5343ca66-f5e7-4e21-89a6-b81ce8f6dcaf.pdf?time=1749813245

And the consent form can be found here:https://storage2.me-qr.com/pdf/b821b0af-3b66-4c63-871b-937a493a9507.pdf

To take part in the study, please contact c.rustin1@uni.brighton.ac.uk.

04/11/2025

NEW CPD WORKSHOP FOR THERAPISTS & TRAINEES

'Safeguarding in a Counselling Context'
Tuesday 13th January, 6-8pm
(5 The Drive, Hove)

Led by Shannon Walden-Lowe, this workshop invites reflection on the need for attention to safeguarding within the profession of counselling and psychotherapy.

The session will explore:

🔵 Key points such as legal frameworks and definitions of "safeguarding"

🟠 The different domains of safeguarding for both adults and children

🔵 Practical approaches to noticing and working with risk

🟠 The impact of implementing effective safeguarding, for both clients and therapists

Tickets cost just £10 and can be booked here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/safeguarding-in-a-counselling-context-a-cpd-sussex-event-tickets-1765100395799?aff=oddtdtcreator

This event is hosted by CPD Sussex: an initiative focused on supporting the professional development of counsellors and psychotherapists in Brighton & Hove and the wider region.

30/10/2025

“Write a blog,” he says.

I know my colleague’s words are kind and encouraging, yet they somehow sound like a demand. “Oh yes, I’ll put it on my list,” I reply. But where exactly on the list? Perhaps before doing my tax return, but probably after cooking dinner, cleaning the toilet, and topping up the kids’ lunch money.

There’s always a list and I am supposed to find time for all the things on it. Some are essential, some not, and others are supposedly “good for me,” like writing a blog.

So here I am writing on a Wednesday morning, after making a packed lunch, emptying the dishwasher, feeding the cat, and putting away the laundry. I sit down with a cup of tea and ask myself: "Why am I writing this? What purpose does it serve? Who would even want to read my words? Does it help anyone?"

In this Substack post, Humanistic Integrative Counsellor Amy Pedder explores how the act of reclaiming time for self-expression can help make the unseen visible in a world where women's care work often goes unnoticed.

Read the full post here: https://newroadpsychotherapy.substack.com/p/a-womans-role

23/10/2025

On Tuesday, four of the team helped our Clinical Director Rory run an immersive careers workshop for Varndean Sixth Form College’s A-Level Psychology students.

After making introductions, the session began with an experiential grounding exercise and an exploration of the foundations of therapy. Following this, the group discussed the issues facing young people today from a therapeutic perspective, before considering how their assumptions about the work of therapy differed from the realities shared by our therapists.

We loved welcoming the students to our Hove centre and wish them all the best for their future career paths!

We hope to run more of these sessions, so if you’re a teacher looking for a way to give your class an insight into the world of therapy (or a trainer seeking to enrich your trainees’ learning) please get in touch! Email maddy@newroadpsychotherapy.com for more details.

Pictured from left to right:
Humanistic Psychotherapeutic Counsellor Daisy Duval, Humanistic Counsellor Francis Mote, trainee Psychodynamic Counsellor Kosi Mahdi-Millot, and trainee Counselling Psychologist & Integrative Psychotherapist Sophie Farrell.

07/10/2025

Ever wondered how it might be possible to connect more deeply with infants before they have access to words?

As part of our 'Therapy Insights' series over on our Substack journal, Unfolding, New Road Psychotherapy Centre music therapist Hannah Hayes Soulbird Therapies has shared her thoughts on music as a 'universal pre-verbal language' - a way to understand what babies are expressing, and communicate meaningfully in return.

Read the article here: https://open.substack.com/pub/newroadpsychotherapy/p/communicating-without-words?r=61w4wk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

30/09/2025

NEW CPD WORKSHOP FOR THERAPISTS & TRAINEES

'Breaking Free from the Inner Tyrant'
Tuesday 18th November, 6-8pm
Connexus Institute (5 The Drive, Hove)

Led by psychotherapists Hulya Ho**er and Rory Singer, this 2-hour workshop is designed for qualified and trainee counsellors and psychotherapists who wish to deepen their understanding of the inner critic, both in their own experience and in their clinical work.

The session will combine psychological insight with experiential exercises to explore:

🗣️ How to recognise and externalise the voice of the inner critic

🧡 Ways of developing a compassionate “inner ally” to respond to self-criticism

🫂 Practical strategies to support resilience, self-worth, and a kinder internal dialogue, for both ourselves and our clients

Tickets cost just £10 and can be booked here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/breaking-free-from-the-inner-tyrant-a-cpd-sussex-event-tickets-1741870955919?aff=oddtdtcreator

This event is hosted by CPD Sussex: an initiative focused on supporting the professional development of counsellors and psychotherapists in Brighton & Hove and the wider region.

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