Useful Links and Contacts:
Other Sources of Information:
- BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapy)
- UKAHPP (UK Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners)
- UKCP (The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy)
- Sussex Counselling
(Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists in Sussex)
Information for Highly Sensitive People:
- The Highly Sensitive Person (Dr. Elaine Aron’s website, with HSP Self test, and in depth information based on her research and books on High Sensitivity. Check out her Newsletter archive for useful articles.)
- National Centre for High Sensitivity (The National Centre for High Sensitivity in the UK with workshops and monthly meetings for HSPs.)
- Dr. Tedd Zeff: Healing for Highly Sensitive People (Website full of useful tips on coping strategies by the writer of he Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide.)
- Joyful Work for Sensitive People
(Informative and inspirational website focusing on work related issues for HSPs.)
- Celebrating Sensitivity
(Inspiration, information and coaching for HSPs)
- Highly Sensitive
(A a series of related sites crammed with useful and interesting articles about and for HSPs)
- HSP Gathering Retreat
(Information on annual HSP gatherings in the UK and USA)
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hscbook/
(A free email discussion group for parents of Highly Sensitive Children)
- Brighton HSP Network page on Facebook (Sharing information, inspiration and networking with local HSPs)
Low Cost Counselling Services in Brighton:
- Brighton Women’s Centre
(Counselling services for women)
- YMCA
(Counselling services for children, young people and parents)
- Mind
(Counselling services for people affected by mental health difficulties)
- Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard (Individual or Couples Counselling for LGBT clients)
- CRI Telephone: 01273 265 599
(Counselling services for people affected by drug and alcohol problems)
- Patched Freephone: 0800 085 4450
(Counselling services for families, friends and carers of substance misusers)
- Rise: (Counselling services for women, children and young people living with the effects of domestic abuse)
- Survivors' Network: (Counselling services for female survivors of rape and sexual abuse and their family)
- Mankind: (Counselling services in Newhaven for male survivors of sexual assault or sexual abuse and their family)
- Federation of Disabled People: (Counselling services for people affected by disability)
- Alternatives Pregnancy Counselling Centre: 01273 687 687 (Individual or couple counselling services for people facing an unplanned pregnancy)
- Age Concern: (Low-cost counselling service for anyone aged over 50 or for those who support or care for those over this age)
- Cruse: (Free counselling service and group support for people affected by bereavement)
- Threshold Women's Counselling Service: (Free to low cost counselling services for women on low income and to women who are refugees and asylum seekers, with interpreters where requested.)
- Samaritans: (Free face to face emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide)
- As You Are Centre: (Low-cost counselling and group work for depression, stress and anxiety)- Rock Clinic: (Low-cost counselling and other psychological, physical and complementary therapies to the community of Brighton, Hove and Sussex)
- 360B Counselling Service: (Affordable Counselling & Psychotherapy for individuals, couple and families)
National Help Lines:
- Samaritans: 08457 90 90 90 (24 hour helpline to people experiencing despair and emotional distress)
- Childline: 0800 11 11 (24 hour free helpline for children)
- Beating Eating Disorders (Beat): 0845 634 1414 (Helpline for people effected by eating disorders)
- RASASC: 0808 802 9999 (Freephone helpline for survivors of rape and sexual abuse and their supporters)
- SANELINE: 0845 767 8000 (Helpline for people affected by mental health problems)
- Alcoholics Anonymus: 0845 769 7555 (Helpline for people affected by alcohol related problems)
- Cruse Breavement Care: 0844 477 9400 (Helpline for people affected by bereavement)
- NHS Direct: 0845 4647 (NHS Health advice and information)
- Rights of Women: 020 7251 8887 or 020 7251 6577 (Free legal advice for women by women re. abuse, sexual or domestic violence, divorce, lesbian parenting, etc.)
- Women's Aid: 0808 2000 247 (Free phone 24 hr National Domestic Violence Helpline)
- National Self-Harm Network: 0800 622 6000 (Freephone national helpline for people who self-injure)
- Telephone Helplines Association: Online search facilty for specialist UK Helplines
Online Information / Self Help:
- www.selfgrowth.com (
Online self-help articles about a wide range of personal difficulties)
- www.howto.co.uk/wellbeing
(Read self-help books online for free)
- www.livinglifetothefull.com (Free onlie self-help course using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques)
Alternative Therapies:
- www.pathwayclinic.co.uk (The Pathway Clinic of Complementary Medicine in Brighton)- www.haelan.co.uk (Online information about natural remedies, nutrition and complementary therapies)
- www.chisuk.org.uk (Online Complementary Healthcare Information Service)
- www.uk-holistics.co.uk (UK Directory of Holistic Therapists)
- www.healers.co.uk (UK Directory of Healers and Therapists)
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