About me
I am a BACP registered counsellor, offering integrative transpersonal counselling in Brighton.
I trained as a psychotherapeutic counsellor at Re-Vision in London, and have worked in a variety of therapeutic roles in the mental health sector for the past 20 years.
My experience includes supporting people through a wide spectrum of human suffering, including intense and overwhelming mental and emotional difficulties and trauma. I have a particular interest in working with issues of difference, diversity and social injustice. I especially enjoy working therapeutically with people outdoors.
In addition to my private counselling and eco-therapy practice, I have:
- Provided bereavement therapy at a local hospice
- Mentored young people with mental health problems at university
- Worked in ecological and horticultural therapy projects
- Held spaces in various settings for exploring whiteness and for talking about race
- Provided therapeutic support to people who are struggling to process the climate and biodiversity crisis, including environmental activists
- Trained third sector and NHS staff in mental health and suicide awareness
- Run various mental health and wellbeing trainings and workshops
- Worked in supported housing for young people in care and unaccompanied young refugees
- Facilitated LGBT peer support and well-being groups for a local charity
- Provided advocacy for patients detained under the Mental Health Act
- Run a weekly Hearing Voices group
- Trained as a Psychiatric nurse
My approach
My approach to counselling is:
- Compassionate. First and foremost I will listen to you in a non-judgemental way and make a welcoming space for whatever is troubling you to show itself.
- Integrative, which means that I draw on many different approaches in my work, depending on who I am working with and what their needs are at any given time. Some examples include: attachment, psychodynamic, narrative, gestalt, embodiment, self/co-regulation and trauma, archetypes, dream and image-work, phenomenological, existential, spiritual, and ecological.
- Transpersonal, which means that I am interested in aspects of being that go beyond the personal into social, ecological, archetypal and spiritual dimensions.
- Underpinned by a soulful perspective. This means therapy is about supporting your human search for destiny and meaning, as much as it is about helping you to heal from the wounds of the past. I will work with you to find gold in the darkest and most difficult aspects of your life, bringing a deeper sense of meaningfulness, connectedness and enchantment to your days.
- Highly relational, meaning I do not hide behind a professional mask but meet you in the most ordinary way, as a fellow human being. Through exploring the twists and turns our relationship openly together, we catch glimpses of the ways in which you tend to relate in the world.
Sometimes it can be hard to find words, so our conversation in therapy does not always need to be verbal, linear, or direct. Through contact with nature, and through movement, imagination and our innate creativity, we access a wilder, non-rational level of knowledge and insight. Through exploring dream images, stories, poetry and myths, we learn to listen to the depths of wisdom within each of us.
Ecotherapy
I offer ecotherapy outdoors, supporting clients in cultivating their relationship with the natural world.
Supervision
I offer soulful supervision to counsellors, including those working with clients outdoors. My fees and locations are the same for this as for counselling (please see below).
Location and fee
I work in person from my home in East Brighton, online or in outdoor settings.
My fee is £65 for a 50 minute session.
Contact me
To arrange an initial session, please get in touch by email or by phone on 07890 108227.
© Yasmin Kapadia 2026