Hope over Fears

KAREN J. DERBER

CHARTERED COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGIST
ASSOCIATE FELLOW BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY
B.P.S. REG 099405
H.C.P.C. Reg. PYL 22131

Welcome to Hope Over Fears.

I wonder what brought you to this site? Are you struggling with persistent and intense feelings such as sadness, anxiety, anger, panic, low self-esteem? Maybe your problem is that you can’t feel, that there is a sense of numbness and disconnection. Perhaps life has thrown something at you which feels unbearable, a bereavement, the loss of a close relationship, or divorce. Maybe, all that you counted on for your stability, has simply dissolved away.

You’ve come to the right place.

Brief counselling for specific problems and longer-term psychotherapy for more complex difficulties can offer you a way to a better, more satisfying and fulfilled life. Not that it’s an easy process for most people. It starts with a careful assessment of what the difficulties are, enough time and space to establish where you are now and to discuss the most appropriate course of therapy for those difficulties in your individual case. Everyone is different, two people with depression may respond better to different therapies, even when their symptoms may be very similar.

My overarching aim is to decrease emotional suffering and to help you find a way through to a more fulfilled and balanced experience of yourself and your life.

I am a friendly, experienced counsellor who uses evidence-based therapies tailored to your individual needs. Clinics in Brighton and Heathfield, East Sussex and Online via Zoom or Skype.

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Blog

15 Jan 2024

HOPE Part 2

15 Jan 2024

HOPE

15 Jan 2024

13 Mar 2021

Violence Against Women

13 Mar 2021

22 Jun 2020

Controlling and Coercive Relationships

22 Jun 2020

In my practice as a counsellor I am often confronted by (usually) women who are in coercive and controlling relationships but who do not recognise that this is what their spouse/husband is doing to them. So many times I have heard that "he loves me" and "I can't leave him" even when he makes her feel scared, disrespected, belittled, undermined and worthless.

22 Jun 2020

24 May 2020

Counselling for Depression

24 May 2020

IS THERE ANY POINT?

Yes, there is every reason to talk to a counsellor when you experience Depression. Although when in the grip of Depression a person is least likely to seek help. When depressed there is very little motivation to engage with life.

24 May 2020

17 Apr 2020

10 Top Tips to manage Anxiety in the time of Covid-19

17 Apr 2020

1. Focus on your breath, fix your attention on it all the way from the beginning of the in breath to the end of the out breath, repeat, as many times as it takes to feel your anxiety dissolving away.

17 Apr 2020

7 Mar 2020

Anxiety, is it contagious?

7 Mar 2020

Coronavirus is spreading in our communities. 164 with the virus at the time of writing, the biggest increase in a single day so far and there has been a second death. People are being quarantined by force in some countries and European cities and the phrase ‘social distancing’ is becoming an everyday term. This is enough to cause some measure of anxiety in the most robust and resilient of people.

7 Mar 2020

4 Oct 2019

Banish sadness, sit with the light……

4 Oct 2019

It’s that time of year again, the days are shorter and for some people it marks a clear downturn in mood and a tendency to withdraw into themselves. Although we generally agree that people are more cheerful in sunshine than in drizzle, you may wonder if what you’re feeling through the winter months is ‘normal’.

4 Oct 2019