Welcome to Brighton Therapy Service
We offer friendly, professional therapy in Brighton and Hove and online.
We provide support for adults, young people, children, and families, as well as professional supervision. With many years of experience between us, we pride ourselves on an inclusive, sensitive, and warm approach.
Therapy is flexible and tailored to your individual needs—whether short-term or long-term—with expertise across a wide range of issues.
If you would like to arrange a time for an initial chat, please contact either Rose or Michele.
You can also learn more about each of us and our individual approaches on our separate pages.
MEET OUR THERAPISTS
Michele Karban
Michelle has over thirty years of experience in the caring profession and has been working as a psychotherapist for more than twenty years. Before training as a psychotherapist, I worked as a residential social worker in a children’s home for adolescent girls.
Rose Maxwell
Rose is a very experienced therapist and has a private practice at Fiveways Brighton. Rose has experience with a wide range of problems and children’s worries, from shyness or low confidence, academic or friendship troubles, difficulties in family relationships, divorce and bereavement, to eating disorders and medical problems.
Our Blog
Brighton Therapy Service: News and Views
Welcome to Brighton Therapy Service! We launched Brighton Therapy Service in April 2012 and so far, we are pleased with the response we have had to the site and the services we offer. We are always keen to hear from our visitors whether it is to say hello, give us...
New Therapy Space in Harley Street London
I'm fortunate to be joining a multidisciplinary team of very skilled practitioners at Therapy Harley Street, who are all highly experienced in their profession. The building has a very welcoming reception and two extremely comfortable waiting rooms for people to relax...
Registered Practitioner for BAPAM
BAPAM I'm very happy to share I've recently joined BAPAM directory of health care professionals. "BAPAM are clinical specialists, delivering expert health and wellbeing services for those working in the performing arts" it's an established charity, which celebrated...
What is Eye Movement Desensitisation Therapy ?(EMDR)
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing. It is a unique, powerful therapy that helps people recover from problems triggered by traumatic events in their lives. It stops difficult memories causing so much distress by helping the brain to reprocess them properly, working with memory to heal the legacy of past pain” (EMDR Association UK)
Terrible twos and a new baby
As my own family has increased through the next generation I have had the opportunity to reflect n sibling rivalry. Managing the impact on the toddler of the newborn baby can be one of the hardest tasks for parents. Intense jealousy is a new feeling for the toddler...
Well Done Lionesses: It’s not just football it’s Equality!
If you watched the Women’s European Championship recently I’m sure you will agree that it was nail-biting stuff! Thrilling to see the women players do so well. Does their performance over the weekend signal a new era in undermining patriarchy and promoting equality in...
The Cost of Living
The idea of the Cost of Living is prominent in the media currently and for many people, it is at a crisis level. I heard a journalist recently say that the idea of a Cost of Living Crisis is explained inadequately in the short snappy phrase which may partly, be the...
Pineapple Support Charity: an Introduction
It’s been a very long time since I sat down and wrote a blog! I have actively been involved with this amazing charity since it started in 2018 and it feels apt for me to sit for a while to promote and endorse it. It was initiated by my good friend Leya Tanit who had...
Should We be Afraid? Look After Yourself
There seems to be a daily headline these days to make us fear something. We hear of COVID-19 deaths and infection rates, we are told of high risk groups and advised how to keep ourselves safe. There are stories of people in distress and those irresponsibly...
The three secrets of resilient people
In a world which feels as though it is currently spinning off its axis. I'm finding TED talks a good tonic! This is a great talk given by Dr Lucy Hone, a resilience expert, she talks clearly from her education on the subject but also from her personal experience....
Online Video Consultation and Supervision Sessions
Help and Support online Due to the rapidly changing circumstances of the coronavirus and the impact this is having on everyone, Rose and I just wanted to remind people that we are experienced in working online. Michele & Rose can meet you online. So If parents and...